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According to a 2010 estimate by Johnson and Grim, Vaishnavism is the largest Hindu sect, constituting about 641 million or 67.6% of Hindus.<ref name=johnson400/><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 2012 |title=Chapter 1 Global Religious Populations |url=http://media.johnwiley.com.au/product_data/excerpt/47/04706745/0470674547-196.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020100448/http://media.johnwiley.com.au/product_data/excerpt/47/04706745/0470674547-196.pdf |archive-date=20 October 2013}}</ref>
The ancient emergence of Vaishnavism is unclear, and broadly hypothesized as a [[History of Hinduism|fusion]] of various regional non-Vedic religions with worship of [[Vishnu]]. It is considered a merger of several popular non-Vedic theistic traditions, particularly the [[Bhagavata]] cults of [[Vāsudeva|Vāsudeva-
The Vaishnavite tradition is known for the loving devotion to an avatar of Vishnu (often Krishna), and as such was key to the spread of the [[Bhakti movement]] in [[Indian subcontinent]] in the 2nd millennium CE.{{sfn|Hawley|2015|pp=10–12, 33–34}}{{sfn|Lochtefeld|2002b|pp=731–733}} It has four [[Vedanta]]-schools of numerous denominations (''sampradaya''): the medieval-era [[Vishishtadvaita]] school of [[Ramanuja]], the [[Dvaita Vedanta|Dvaita]] school of [[Madhvacharya]], the [[Dvaitadvaita]] school of [[Nimbarkacharya]], and the [[Shuddhadvaita]] of [[Vallabha]]charya.{{sfn|Beck|2005a|pp=76–77}}{{sfn|Fowler|2002|pp=288–304, 340–350}} There are also several other Vishnu-traditions. [[Ramananda]] (14th century) created a Rama-oriented movement, now the largest monastic group in Asia.{{sfn|Raj|Harman|2007|pp=165–166}}{{sfn|Lochtefeld|2002b|pp=553–554}}
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