three large missionary religions, plus two more?

I took the OP to imply a widespread religion as much as anything. Hinduism is largely confined to India, but Indian emigrants and slaves were to be found all over the British Empire. Maybe you can get a lasting Hindu population in South Africa among the 'coloreds' or in Uganda perhaps.
There were large Hindu populations in Southeast Asia at one point (although it was later largely supplanted by Buddhism, and later Islam.
 
It's not that difficult to imagine how Confucianism becoming a missionary religion but I wonder how Taoism becoming a missionary religion look like...
 
One thing I like about Sikhism is finding out, okay, there is this monotheistic religion other than Islam, Christianity, or Judaism, which has about 20 million followers worldwide, and which I don't really know much about.

And then there was this fascinating court case. As I understand it, Sikhs wear a kirpan which is usually a small knife on the belt symbolizing that they are protectors and defenders of the poor, and this conflicted with IRS regulations against its agents having weapons. Now, to further complicate matters, Sikhs generally view the kirpan as a symbol, and not as a weapon. This has to be one of the greatest religious liberty cases of all time, and I don't know how it came out!
 
And then there was this fascinating court case. As I understand it, Sikhs wear a kirpan which is usually a small knife on the belt symbolizing that they are protectors and defenders of the poor, and this conflicted with IRS regulations against its agents having weapons. Now, to further complicate matters, Sikhs generally view the kirpan as a symbol, and not as a weapon. This has to be one of the greatest religious liberty cases of all time, and I don't know how it came out!

She won, largely because the rules were contradictory and enforced wrong. In doing so the IRS was found to have violated her religious liberty.
 
One thing I like about Sikhism is finding out, okay, there is this monotheistic religion other than Islam, Christianity, or Judaism, which has about 20 million followers worldwide, and which I don't really know much about.

And then there was this fascinating court case. As I understand it, Sikhs wear a kirpan which is usually a small knife on the belt symbolizing that they are protectors and defenders of the poor, and this conflicted with IRS regulations against its agents having weapons. Now, to further complicate matters, Sikhs generally view the kirpan as a symbol, and not as a weapon. This has to be one of the greatest religious liberty cases of all time, and I don't know how it came out!

The problem is, in India, there is many young sikhs specially who are getting more relax about those things..

I know all too much because that certain recent debate (and the usual Québec bashing that ensued :mad::rolleyes: ) here.
 
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