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Although New Zealand is a largely secular country, religion finds a place in many cultural traditions. Major Christian events, such as Christmas and Easter, are official public holidays and are celebrated by religious and non-religious alike, as in many countries around the world.
The proportion of Māori followers of Hinduism and other Dharmic/Indic religions are low. Although the number of Māori Indians grew rapidly at the end of the 20th century upto 2,610 at the 2006 census, [11] the total number of New Zealanders identifying as Māori was 565,329. [13] Most of the new converts are followers of the Hare Krishna ...
The culture of New Zealand is a synthesis of indigenous Māori, colonial British, and other cultural influences.The country's earliest inhabitants brought with them customs and language from Polynesia, and during the centuries of isolation, developed their own Māori and Moriori cultures.
Māori cultural history intertwines inextricably with the culture of Polynesia as a whole. The New Zealand archipelago forms the southwestern corner of the Polynesian Triangle, a major part of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: the Hawaiian Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and New Zealand (Aotearoa in te reo Māori). [10]
[126] [127] At the 2018 New Zealand census, 7.7 per cent of Māori were affiliated with Māori religions, beliefs, and philosophies; 29.9 per cent with Christian denominations and 53.5 per cent of Māori claimed no religion. Proportions of Christian and irreligious Māori are comparable with European New Zealanders.
New Zealand Journal of History (2008) 42#2 pp 133–153. Studies the impact of Christianity on New Zealand society in the 1920s; Hoverd, William James (2008). "No Longer a Christian Country? – Religious Demographic Change in New Zealand 1966–2006" (PDF). New Zealand Sociology. 23 (1). Royal Society of New Zealand.
Hinduism is the second largest religion in New Zealand. ... Māori religions, beliefs and philosophies: 62,634 1.34 52,947 1.36 65,550 1.75 63,597 1.83 23,325
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