Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2016

Copyright

Contents

Preface

List of Illustrations

Editors and Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Religious Demographic Data

1: The World by Religion

Non-religionists

Agnostics

Atheists

Religionists

Baha’is

Buddhists

Chinese Folk-Religionists

Christians

Confucianists

Daoists

Ethnoreligionists

Hindus

Jains

Jews

Muslims

New Religionists

Shintoists

Sikhs

Spiritists

Zoroastrians

2: Religions by Continent

Religions in Africa

Religions in Asia

Religions in Europe

Religions in Latin America

Religions in Northern America

Religions in Oceania

Part 2: Case Studies and Methodology

3: Religious Beliefs and Practices in Argentina: An Approach from Quantitative Data

Results

Conclusion

4: African Pentecostal Churches in Italy: A Troubled Presence in a Catholic Country

Mobility, Instability, and Vulnerability

The Catholic Factor

Approximations and Distribution in the Territory

Conclusion

5: Changing Religion, Changing Economies: Future Global Religious and Economic Growth

Aim

Methodology

Short-Term Economic Comparisons (2010 and 2020)

Long-Term Economic Comparisons (2010 to 2050)

Economic Inequality by Country

Data Limitations

The Globe’s Changing Religious and Economic Landscape

Main Takeaways of Global Religious and Economic Change, Ordered by the Size of Religious Groups in 2010

Conclusion

6: Exploring Islam in the Americas from Demographic and Ethnographic Perspectives

The Value of an Interdisciplinary Approach to American Islam

Highlighting Muslim Populations in the Americas

Conclusion

7: Faith and Health Globally

Religion and Non-communicable Disease

Religion, Contextual Factors, and Communicable Disease

Data and Methods

Findings

Conclusion

8: Shifting Christian Identities in Brazil: What the Numbers (Do Not) Show

The Numbers of Christians in Brazil

The Diverse Character of Brazilian Christianity

The Changing Landscape

Shifting Identities in Brazilian Christianity

Some Prospects

9: Religious Demographics and Democracy

Religious Political Theories

Data

Research Design

Results

Further Research

Part 3: Data Sources

10: Data Sources

General Sources

Data Archives

Sources by Country

Appendices

Glossary

World Religions by Country

Index