August 29, 2009
Various Faiths Represented in Northeast Mississippi
by Galen Holley
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
The Magnolia State is fairly homogenous when it comes to religion. According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, almost half of Mississippians belong to evangelical Protestant Christian churches, but Northeast Mississippi is also home to Buddhists, Muslims, and Hindus, as well as devotees of various other faiths.
Today, people throughout the South and around the world are recognizing the reality of religious pluralism, but they also hold to essential beliefs that make their particular religion – or denomination – their preferred choice.
Inherited faith
Ask most religious people how they became a member of their faith and they'll likely say it's because they were born into it.
That was the case with Mieko Kikuchi, a native of Japan who practices a mixture of Buddhism and Shinto.
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