Religion
The following religious statistics have been reported as of 2010:
- 48% Christianity (25.2% Protestant and 22.8% Roman Catholic)
- 27.4% Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma and Arya Samaj)
- 19.6% Islam (Sunni and Ahmadiyya)
- 5% Indigenous or animist
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“I told him that Goldsmith had said,... “As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion from the priest.” I regretted this loose way of talking. JOHNSON. Sir, he knows nothing; he has made up his mind about nothing.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)