Home›Open Questions›How many people practice Sant Mat worldwide, across all its lineages combined?Open QuestionsHow many people practice Sant Mat worldwide, across all its lineages combined?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "How many people practice Sant Mat worldwide, across all its lineages combined?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-many-people-practice-sant-mat-worldwide.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). How many people practice Sant Mat worldwide, across all its lineages combined?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-many-people-practice-sant-mat-worldwideCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-how-many-people-practice-sant-mat-worldw, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {How many people practice Sant Mat worldwide, across all its lineages combined?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-many-people-practice-sant-mat-worldwide}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionSant 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 SuccessorshipCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnSant Mat, Religions Well-attested Source The Radhasoami Tradition: A Critical History of Guru SuccessorshipDavid Christopher Lanetier 1SourcesThe Radhasoami Tradition: A Critical History of Guru Successorshiptier 1David Christopher Lane, Garland Publishing (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, vol. 623 / Sects and Cults in America, vol. 14), 1992Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year