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  2. Protestantism by country - Wikipedia

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    By 2050, some project Protestantism to rise to slightly more than half of the world's total Christian population. [41] [d] According to Hans J. Hillerbrand, Protestant and Catholic share of the global Christian population will almost be the same by 2050, with Protestants exhibiting a significantly higher growth rate. [42]

  3. Protestantism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations collectively comprising about 43% of the country's population (or 141 million people) in 2019. [1] Other estimates suggest that 48.5% of the U.S. population (or 157 million people) is Protestant. [2]

  4. Christianity by country - Wikipedia

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    According to a 2012 Pew Research Center study, of the then 232 countries and territories, 157 had Christian majorities. [ 10 ] Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe , the Americas , the Philippines , East Timor , Sub-Saharan Africa , and Oceania . [ 11 ]

  5. Religion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Worldwide, the religion has grown faster than the rate of population growth over the 20th century, [156] and has been recognized since the 1980s as the most widespread minority religion in the countries of the world. [157] Similarly, by 2020, the religion was the largest minority religion in about half of the counties. [158]

  6. List of the largest Protestant denominations - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the largest Protestant denominations. It aims to include sizable Protestant communions, federations, alliances, councils, fellowships, and other denominational organisations in the world and provides information regarding the membership thereof. The list is inevitably partial and generally based on claims by the denominations ...

  7. Religion and politics in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States has more Christians than any other country in the world (US is the largest Christian nation in respect to population). [7] Going forward from its foundation, the United States has been called a Protestant nation by a variety of sources.

  8. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - Wikipedia

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    The term was later popularized by sociologist and University of Pennsylvania professor E. Digby Baltzell, himself a WASP, in his 1964 book The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America. Baltzell stressed the closed or caste-like characteristic of the group by arguing that "There is a crisis in American leadership in the middle ...

  9. History of Protestantism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    America began as a significant Protestant majority nation. Significant minorities of Roman Catholics and Jews did not arise until the period between 1880 and 1910. Altogether, Protestants comprised the majority of the population until 2012 when the Protestant share of U.S. population dropped to 48%, thus ending its status as religion of the ...