Religion
Protestant 25.2% (predominantly of the Moravian Church (Herrnhut)), Roman Catholic 22.8%, Hindu 27.4%, Muslim 19.6%, indigenous beliefs 5% and Judaism - a small active Jewish community.
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“... religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)