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How BIG Are the Religions? (Part One)
By
Reed Hall
The overarching purpose of this entire “Religion 101” blog of mine is primarily to introduce newcomers to the study of religion, as well as newbies just starting out on a personal spiritual search, to the wider world of global religion and spirituality. It’s also my own modest contribution to the wider “war on religious illiteracy.”…
How MANY Religions Are There? (Part Five: The Hard Numbers)
By
Reed Hall
In my last blog entry, I continued to ask (or perhaps dance around) the simple question: How many religions are there in the world? Now, at last, I shall meet the question head on. Never mind about all of the myriad bygone religions of the remote past. We touched upon them briefly in Part One;…
How MANY Religions Are There? (Part Four: “Religions” vs. Denominations, Sects, etc.)
By
Reed Hall
In my last several blog entries, I have been asking (or perhaps dancing around) the simple question: How many religions are there in the world? Never mind about all of the myriad bygone religions of the remote past. We touched upon them briefly in Part One; let’s just focus instead upon asking how many religions…
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