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  2. List of religious populations - Wikipedia

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    The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.

  3. World religions - Wikipedia

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    A "world religion" is a tradition that has achieved sufficient power and numbers to enter our history to form it, interact with it, or thwart it. We recognise both the unity within and the diversity among the world religions because they correspond to important geopolitical entities with which we must deal.

  4. List of religions and spiritual traditions - Wikipedia

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    Some academics studying the subject have divided religions into three broad categories: world religions, a term which refers to transcultural, international faiths; Indigenous religions, which refers to smaller, culture-specific or nation-specific religious groups; and new religious movements, which refers to recently developed faiths. [5]

  5. Major religious groups - Wikipedia

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    The world's principal religions and spiritual traditions may be classified into a small number of major groups, though this is not a uniform practice. This theory began in the 18th century with the goal of recognizing the relative degrees of civility in different societies, [2] but this concept of a ranking order has since fallen into disrepute in many contemporary cultures.

  6. Religions by country - Wikipedia

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    This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .

  7. Religion - Wikipedia

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    Many world religions are also organized religions, most definitively including the Abrahamic religions Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, while others are arguably less so, in particular folk religions, indigenous religions, and some Eastern religions. A portion of the world's population are members of new religious movements. [12]

  8. Where the world's religions are concentrated - in only a ...

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    By RYAN GORMAN The majority of the world's religions are concentrated in only a handful of countries, a new report has revealed. Half of the planet's population lives in only six nations, and ...

  9. Abrahamic religions - Wikipedia

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    The Abrahamic religions are a grouping of three major religions that revere Abraham in their scripture: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The religions share doctrinal, historical, and geographic overlap that naturally contrasts them with the Dharmic religions of India, Iranian religions, or traditions such as Chinese folk religion .