[Buddha-l] Religion and political affliliation

[Christopher Fynn]

Curt Steinmetz wrote:

> According to the ARIS study there were 766,000 Hindus in the US in 2001. 
> Here is a link to the 47 page pdf for the 2001 American Religious 
> Identification Study at CUNY:
> http://tinyurl.com/ay8k3u

> This is higher than the numbers for several important Christian sects, 
> including Seventh Day Adventists,  Eastern Orthodox, and Mennonites. 

Yes but there is a bewildering number of Hindu sects and sub-sects. For 
a start you have different sects following Siva, Krishna, Ram, Kali, 
Durga, Ganapati etc, etc, and then groups following a whole variety of 
gurus who call themselves avatars.

On cable TV here we get a mostly Hindu "faith channel" - there was also 
Jain guru on there the other day - much more entertaining and much more 
variety than the Xtian channels I've seen in the States

- Chris

Thimphu, Bhutan