(As with Catholic and Protestants, where they merely split when they competed with each other) Global religions, such as Christianity and Buddhism have experienced syncretism; as a result they were easily accepted, and succeeded in increasing their number of followers.
（カトリックとプロテスタントのように拮抗するときは分裂することもある）キリスト教や仏教など世界的な宗教は現地に受け入れられる為に習合という現象を経験し、結果的に信者数を増やすことに成功した例が多い。