note of 1/15/2019

Notes:
Although most migrants learn the language of the new location, they typically retain their religion.
Reliable statistics on the number of adherents are difficult to obtain
2.2billion Christians, 1.6billion Muslim, 1 billion Hindu, 500 million Buddhists
Judaism has 14-18 million 
In all but a handful of countries, the religion with the largest number of adherents is either Christianity or Islam. Christianity is the most widely practiced religion in every country of the western Hemisphere and in most countries of Europe and subsaharan Africa. Islam is the most widely practiced religion in nearly every country of southwest asia and north africa, as well as centrel Asia
Judaism is the most widely in Israel.(0 percent of latin americans and 75 percent of Europeans and north Americans are believers of Christianity
Muslims are over 90 percent of people in Centrel Asia and Southwest asia and North Africa.
India is 80 percent Hindu, whereas Bangladesh and Pakistan are more than 90 percent Muslim
three major branches of Christianity: Roman Catholic(50 percnt), pretestant(38 percent divided between others) and Orthodox(12 percent).
Buddhism is clustered primarily in east Asia and Southeast Asia.
Islam:Sunni(from arabic for "people following the tradition of muhammad"
          Shiite(from arabic word for "party" or "support group")(divided into three principal schools of thoughts:Ithna Ashari, Ismaili and Zaidi)
France has 4 million muslims
Germany has 3 million
Many muslims moved to the US during 1990s, about 1/4
Number of buddhists is hard to count because very few people participate in buddhist institutions
you can be a buddhist and also another religious, but not Christianity or Islam
97 percent hindus are in India, 80 percent of the population of India
2/5 of the world 14 million jews are in the US and other 2/5 are in Israel
Fundamental to Judaism is elief in one aa powerful god