Right, there are, what, hundreds of millions of worshippers of Guanyin in the world? Meanwhile, the author has multiple peer-reviewed publications about John H

Right, there are, what, hundreds of millions of worshippers of Guanyin in the world? Meanwhile, the author has multiple peer-reviewed publications about John Henry Newman and fasting. Speaking as someone who worships at Anglican churches, has a copy of Apologia pro Vita Sua, and makes something of an attempt to follow Anglican traditions around fasting (the ones that would have been familiar to Newman), I can assure you (with some sadness) that there are nowhere near a hundred million people today who care about Anglican fasting practices in general, and that the tradition is almost certainly about to die out. (Perhaps it's unfair of me to pick on the author - but I think it's also unfair for the author to have picked on other academics in his field, when he could have said, "After spending years writing about Newman's fasting practices, I realized I'd have more impact on society by joining libertarian think tanks, and that's a problem for academia," and it would have been a much more convincing argument.)