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question 32

Multiple Choice

Christianity is the world's largest religion, with some 2.1 billion adherents, followed by Islam, which has approximately 1.3 billion practitioners. Islam is the fastest-growing religion. This chapter's "Appreciating Diversity" segment examines how Islam has spread by adapting successfully to many national and cultural differences, including the presence of other religions that were already established in the areas to which Islam has spread. An important result of this process is that

• A) Islam is far from homogeneous-the faith reflects the increasingly diverse areas in which it is practiced.
• B) unlike Christianity, Islam has the capacity to transform local culture profoundly.
• C) Islam is growing at the expense of other beliefs and practices.
• D) the separation of religion and state is disappearing in most places in the world.
• E) the West is losing the culture war.

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