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Starting in 2005, the ARDA began to host surveys dealing with religion outside the United States. [5] [3] In 2006, the archive therefore changed its name from the American Religion Data Archive to the Association of Religion Data Archives to more properly reflect the scope of information available. The new name preserved both the acronym and ...
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.
An extensive new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) finds that only 16 percent of Americans say religion is the most important thing in their lives. A decade ago, 20 percent ...
The survey below, the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) of 2008, was a random digit-dialed telephone survey of 54,461 American residential households in the contiguous United States. The 1990 sample size was 113,723; 2001 sample size was 50,281. Adult respondents were asked the open-ended question, "What is your religion, if any ...
List of religions and spiritual traditions; Religions by country; Religious information by country; S. ... Lists of skepticism topics; List of scientific skeptics;
Map of major denominations and religions. One way to define a major religion is by the number of current adherents. The population numbers by religion are computed by a combination of census reports and population surveys (in countries where religion data is not collected in census, for example the United States or France), but results can vary widely depending on the way questions are phrased ...
"Religion and Nineteenth-Century Voting Behavior: A New Look at Some Old Data." Journal of Politics 69.2 (2007): 339-350. online [dead link ] Gjerde, Jon. The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural evolution in the rural Middle West, 1830-1917 (1999). Green, John C. "How the Faithful Voted: Religious Communities and the Presidential Vote in 2004."
Questions of religion are "marginal" in censuses, usually optional, and are left out of most censuses in most countries. [29] Despite attempts to standardize wording, census phrasing of the religion question have not been consistent over time or from country to country, with responders understanding them in 3 different ways. [29]