Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2017

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Contents

Preface to the Annual Series

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 Botswana’s Religious Demographics: A Comparative Insight into It’s 2001 and 2011 Censuses

Botswana’s Censuses: History of the ‘Religion’ Variable

Botswana’s BPHC 2001 and BPHC 2011: Comparative Perspective

Christian Denominations

Religious Minorities

Conclusion

4 Measuring the Presence of Protestants in Guatemala, 1882–2011

Waves of Protestant Missions

The Three Datasets

Future Research

Appendix: Types of Protestantism

5 Linking Religiosity to Life Satisfaction in Japan and the United States

What It Means to Identify as ‘Religious’ in Japan

Method

Results

Discussion

6 Religious Affiliation and Religious Plurality in Europe: Introducing a New Approach of Estimating Country Data Based on Metadatabase-comparison

Religious Affiliation as Religious Belonging and Identity

Recent Changes in Europe: Hesitant Pluralization and ‘Blank Areas’

Toward Better Data on Religious Affiliation

Conclusion

7 How Many More Muslims? The Effect of Increased Numbers of Asylum Seekers on the Size of Muslim Population in European Countries

Data and Methods

Asylum Seekers in Europe

The Share of Muslims among Asylum Seekers

The Size of Muslim Population in the eu+ Countries in 2015

Summary and Discussion

8 God or the State? The Role of Religiosity and Nationalism to Explain Fertility Differentials in Israel and the Jewish Settlements of the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Background: Fertility in the Jewish Settlements

Objectives, Theoretical Background, and Hypotheses

Data and Methods

Statistical Analysis

Results

Conclusion

9 The Demography of Australia’s Catholics: Method and Applications

The Australian Census

The National Catholic Census Project

Customized Geography

Customized Data

The Parish Profiles

Conclusion

Part 3: Data Sources

10 Data Sources

General Sources

Data Archives

Sources by Country

Appendices

Glossary

World Religions by Country

Index