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How many people practice Sant Mat worldwide, across all its lineages combined?

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Sant Mat has no central organization: its many lineages, Radha Soami Satsang Beas among the largest, each keep at most their own membership records, several privately, and no independent source aggregates them into a total for the tradition as a whole.

What would resolve this A survey methodology that could count across separate, non-communicating religious organizations without relying on each one's own self-reported figures, or a change in disclosure practice by the larger lineages themselves.
OpenSociology of religionDavid Christopher Lane, The Radhasoami Tradition: A Critical History of Guru Successorship
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Source The Radhasoami Tradition: A Critical History of Guru SuccessorshipDavid Christopher Lane
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The Radhasoami Tradition: A Critical History of Guru Successorship
David Christopher Lane, Garland Publishing (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, vol. 623 / Sects and Cults in America, vol. 14), 1992
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