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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…
How MANY Religions Are There? (Part Three: “Religion” vs. “Way of Life”?)
By
Reed Hall
In my previous blog entry, I again asked the seemingly simple question: How many religions are there in the world, today? (Popular objections that Christianity somehow doesn’t count because “it’s a relationship, not a ‘religion'” notwithstanding, it does count. It’s a religion. We covered that in Part Two.) Before proceeding further in addressing the opening…
How MANY Religions Are There? (Part Two: When Is A Religion “Not A Religion”?)
By
Reed Hall
In my previous blog entry, I asked the seemingly simple question: How many religions are there in the world, today? (Never mind about all the myriad bygone religions of the remote past. And never mind how many people think exclusively of their own religion alone as solely and genuinely qualifying as “authentic religion,” thereby deeming…
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