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According to the 2021 Eurobarometer survey, Christianity was the largest religion in the European Union, accounting 66.1% of the EU population, [36] down from 72% in 2012. [37] In 2017, Pew Research Center have found that the number of Christians in Europe, is in decline.
According to a recent study (Dogan, Mattei, Religious Beliefs in Europe: Factors of Accelerated Decline), 47% of French people declared themselves as agnostics in 2003. The situation of religion varies between countries in European Union.
Bronze and Iron Age religion in Europe as elsewhere was predominantly polytheistic and ... Mattei, Religious Beliefs in Europe: Factors of Accelerated Decline), 47% ...
Despite this decline, Christianity remains the dominant religion in Europe, the Americas and Oceania. According to a 2010 study by the Pew Research Center, 76% of the population of Europe, [4] 77% of North America and 90% of Latin America and the Caribbean identified themselves as Christians. [5]
First Baptist's pastor, Ryan Burge, spends much of his time as a researcher documenting the dramatic decline in religious affiliation in recent decades. Burge has witnessed the reality of his ...
Cathedral of Saint Vitus, the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Prague. The decline of Christianity recorded throughout the censuses of 1991, 2001 and 2011. The Czechs gradually converted to Christianity from Slavic paganism between the 9th and the 10th century, and Christianity—especially the Catholic Church, with significant minorities of Protestantism, and even majorities in some ...
In their 2015 study The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050, Pew Research Center predicted that the religiously unaffiliated (atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion) could decrease from 16.4% of the world population in 2010, to 13.2% by 2050, despite increasing in Europe and ...
In the 1970s, the Catholic southern areas started to show religious declines. [4] [5] After the Second World War, the major religions began to decline, while the previously insignificant religion of Islam began to increase in numbers. During the 1960s and 1970s, pillarization began to weaken and the population became less religious. In 1971, 39 ...