Religions of India

[ATHEIST]

 A friend and i were debating the other day about the numerous religions in India. He said they were hundreds of religions in India and i disagreed. To my knowledge there are mainly 4 major reilgions, Hinduism being the vast majority at around 80%. Now im not including ramdom religions where some crazy guy just makes his own up. i was thinking more native religions. from my friends point of view there could be hundreds of religions in the US, but i again would disagree. who is more correct?

we saw Slumdog, it was vey good. sparked the conversation

[loco]

India:
Religion:
Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html#People

US:
Religion:
Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4% (2007 est.)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html#People

[Fury]

India's only 13.4% Muslim yet they make up the majority of terrorists in that country. That's saying a whole lot!

[Butterbean]

Loco, thank you for that link!  Very interesting!

[ATHEIST]

yeah thanks loco!

India's only 13.4% Muslim yet they make up the majority of terrorists in that country. That's saying a whole lot!

thats surprising, i thought Muslims would be much more prevalent

[Butterbean]

yeah thanks loco!

thats surprising, i thought Muslims would be much more prevalent

I looked up the UK because I hear so much about muslims there but I was surprised to see this:

 
Christian (Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist) 71.6%, Muslim 2.7%, Hindu 1%, other 1.6%, unspecified or none 23.1% (2001 census) 

Now I do see those numbers are from 2001. 




France:
 
Roman Catholic 83%-88%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 5%-10%, unaffiliated 4%
 
(2003 numbers I think)




We had a driver recently telling us about where he originally lived (Netherlands) and what a huge presence there are of Muslims but that they don't integrate into society and haven't for 3 generations (or something like that) so I looked it up.   In this one I was surprised at the high percentage of "none".....but I believe he was in the "none" category!
 
Roman Catholic 30%, Dutch Reformed 11%, Calvinist 6%, other Protestant 3%, Muslim 5.8%, other 2.2%, none 42% (2006)