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3. Eastern religions do it, too.

Fri Mar 8, 2019, 12:43 PM

Mar 2019

Entrepreneurial Hindus have been marketing their particular sects to wealthy westerners for a long time. Krishnas and Rajneesh, for example.

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Western Abrahamic Religions Tend to Proselytize [View all] MineralMan Mar 2019 OP

Primarily Christianity TexasBushwhacker Mar 2019 #1

There's not much by Jews, except within various divisions of Judaism. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2019 #2

Eastern religions do it, too. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2019 #3

Jews don't. Gore1FL Mar 2019 #4

And why is that? Act_of_Reparation Mar 2019 #10

I do not understand the tradition in it's entirety. Gore1FL Mar 2019 #12

Hmmm...interesting observation. Karadeniz Mar 2019 #6

Why are you singling out Western Abrahamic religions? murielm99 Mar 2019 #7

I consider Islam as much a Western religion as MineralMan Mar 2019 #8

That might be a recent feature. Igel Mar 2019 #9

Judaism is no longer a major relgion, in terms of people MineralMan Mar 2019 #11