as Earl Lovelace, Lakshmi Persaud and Michael Anthony. Religion The largest religious groups are the Roman Catholics, Hindus, and Muslim. The Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Sikhs, Jews, Jains, Baháʼí, Buddhists, Zorastrians, Rastafarians, Amerindian Religion, Traditional African Religion, and Taoism/Chinese folk religion/Confucianism are among the smaller groups. Two Afro-Caribbean syncretic faiths, the Shouter or Spiritual Baptist and the Yoruba/Orisha faith (formerly called Shangos, a less than complimentary term) are among the fastest growing religious groups, as are a host of American-style evangelical and fundamentalist churches usually lumped as "Pentecostal" by most Trinidadians (although this designation is often inaccurate). The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church) has also expanded its presence in the country since the mid-1980s. References