By Todd M. Johnson
ISBN-10: 0470674547
ISBN-13: 9780470674543
Created through of the field’s best specialists, this particular advent to overseas non secular demography outlines the demanding situations in analyzing facts on spiritual adherence, and offers a latest portrait of world spiritual trust.
- Offers the 1st entire evaluation of the sphere of foreign spiritual demography – detailing what we all know approximately non secular adherents worldwide, and the way we all know it
- Examines spiritual freedom and variety, together with agnostics and atheists, on an international scale, highlighting developments over the last a hundred years and projecting estimates for the 12 months 2050
- Outlines the problems and demanding situations on the topic of definitions, taxonomies, assets, analyses, and different strategies in analyzing information on non secular adherence
- Considers facts from spiritual groups, censuses, surveys, and scholarly examine, besides a number of in-depth case stories at the worldwide Muslim inhabitants, faith in China, and the non secular demography of lately created Sudan and South Sudan
- Argues opposed to the assumption that the twentieth-century was once a ‘secular’ interval via asserting new facts to the contrary
- Provides assets for measuring either qualitatively and quantitatively very important facts at the world's non secular scenario within the twenty-first century
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The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography
Created by way of of the field’s best specialists, this specified advent to foreign spiritual demography outlines the demanding situations in examining information on spiritual adherence, and provides a modern portrait of world non secular trust. deals the 1st entire evaluate of the sector of overseas non secular demography – detailing what we all know approximately non secular adherents worldwide, and the way we all know it Examines non secular freedom and variety, together with agnostics and atheists, on a world scale, highlighting traits during the last a hundred years and projecting estimates for the yr 2050 Outlines the problems and demanding situations on the topic of definitions, taxonomies, resources, analyses, and different innovations in reading facts on spiritual adherence Considers info from non secular groups, censuses, surveys, and scholarly study, in addition to numerous in-depth case reports at the worldwide Muslim inhabitants, faith in China, and the spiritual demography of lately created Sudan and South Sudan Argues opposed to the idea that the twentieth-century used to be a ‘secular’ interval through declaring new proof on the contrary presents assets for measuring either qualitatively and quantitatively vital info at the world's non secular state of affairs within the twenty-first century
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1 At the same time, a significant minority of people claim no religion. Even in the past 100 years this “group” has waxed and waned as a percentage of the world’s population. Any serious treatment of religious demography must take both religionists and non-religionists into account. 3 These huge blocs represent to some extent cultural realities (for example, Arabs as Muslims, South Asians as Hindus), but each of these religions also has enormous cultural diversity (for example, most Muslims are not Arabs).
18 Countries with the fastest annual growth of Hindus, 1910–2010 and 2000–2010. a. a. 2 Data source: Todd M. Johnson and Brian J. , World Religion Database (Leiden/ Boston: Brill, accessed January 2012). Countries >100,000 population. 19 Hindu traditions, 1910 and 2010. 5 Data source: Todd M. Johnson and Brian J. , World Religion Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, accessed January 2012). 6%). 2%), Neo-Hinduism, and Reform Hinduism comprise smaller movements. 20) are all found in India with the exception of Nepali at number 20.
30) has not changed much over the past 100 years, especially at the top of the list. Buddhists in these countries are growing at rates similar to those of the general population. In 1910 the Buddhist center of gravity was in southern China.