Melissa wrote, in response to Sally:
> > I, too, thought the Buddhists were the largest. I wonder why so
> > many of us thought that?
> I associate Buddhism with the Far East, and so my thinking went
> along these lines: "There are lots of Buddhists in the Far East;
> China is in the Far East; there must be lots (percentage-wise) of
> Buddhists in China; China has more than a billion people; so
> there must be more Buddhists in the world."  

I had heard somewhere that Islam was the *fastest growing* religion so I 
equated that with being biggest, which was obviously wrong!  I knew, though, 
that Christianity was pretty big in Asia, probably as a result of imperialism.  
Africa & Asia have the 2 largest Anglican (which I am) memberships, which came 
as a surprise until I remembered the large British presence in both places.  

emily, imperialismlingerson, insouciant grunion

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