The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography

Front Cover
John Wiley & Sons, Mar 25, 2013 - Religion - 400 pages
Created by two of the field’s leading experts, this unique introduction to international religious demography outlines the challenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, and presents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief.
  • Offers the first comprehensive overview of the field of international religious demography – detailing what we know about religious adherents around the world, and how we know it
  • Examines religious freedom and diversity, including agnostics and atheists, on a global scale, highlighting trends over the past 100 years and projecting estimates for the year 2050
  • Outlines the issues and challenges related to definitions, taxonomies, sources, analyses, and other techniques in interpreting data on religious adherence
  • Considers data from religious communities, censuses, surveys, and scholarly research, along with several in-depth case studies on the global Muslim population, religion in China, and the religious demography of recently created Sudan and South Sudan
  • Argues against the belief that the twentieth-century was a ‘secular’ period by putting forward new evidence to the contrary
  • Provides resources for measuring both qualitatively and quantitatively important data on the world's religious situation in the twenty-first century
 

Selected pages

Contents

List of Figures
Foreword
Introduction
Global Religious Populations 19102010
Dynamics of Change in Religious Populations
Estimating Changes in the Global Muslim
Sunni and Shia Muslims
Estimating Chinas Religious Populations
Assessing Religious Populations in the Sudans
Migration and Religious Diasporas
Additional Methodological Notes
World Religions by Country
Glossary
Copyright

Other editions - View all

The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious ...
Todd M. Johnson,Brian J. Grim
No preview available - 2013

Common terms and phrases

accessed January 2012 adherents Africa agnostics America analysis annual Asia atheists average Bangladesh beliefs birth Brill Buddhists Cambridge Catholic census Center century chapter China Chinese Christian church communities continue conversion Data source decline demographic Development diaspora economic estimates ethnic Europe European example expected faith fertility fertility rates figures Forum on Religion Future Global Muslim Population Grim groups growing growth Hindus History immigration important increase India International Islam Italy Jews Johnson and Brian live majority measure migration million minority Muslim-majority countries North Northern Oxford particular percentage Pew Forum political practice present projected question rates regions Religion and Public Religion Database Leiden/Boston religionists religious affiliation religious diversity reports represent Research response result sample share Social South South Korea statistics Sudan survey Table Todd traditions trends United Nations University Press Western World Religion Database York

About the author (2013)

Todd M. Johnsonis Associate Professor of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. He is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University, where he co-edits the World Religion Database. Professor Johnson is the co-editor of the Atlas of Global Christianity (with Kenneth Ross, 2009) and co-author of World Christianity Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition (with David Barrett and George Kurian, 2001) and World Christian Trends (with David Barrett, et al, 2001). He is also the editor of the World Christian Database. Brian J. Grim is Director of cross-national data and Senior Researcher in religion and world affairs at the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life in Washington, D.C. Dr Grim is also Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University, where he co-edits the World Religion Database. He is co-author of The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the 21st Century (with Roger Finke, 2011).

Bibliographic information

TitleThe World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography
AuthorsTodd M. Johnson, Brian J. Grim
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013
ISBN1118323033, 9781118323038
Length400 pages
Subjects › 

Religion / General
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan