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members of many other denominational families. The Protestant share of the population is down 4 percentage points over the last five years and has dropped 10 points in 10 years. By comparison, the Catholic share of the population, which had ticked downward between 2007 and 2014, has held relatively steady in recent years. As of 2021, 21% of U.S.
**The “other world religions” category includes Sikhs, Baha’is, Taoists, Jains and a variety of other world religions. The “other faiths” category includes Unitarians, New Age religions, Native American religions and a number of other non-Christian faiths. Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study, conducted June 4-Sept. 30, 2014 ...
of many religions can live and practice freely. India’s massive population is diverse as well as devout. Not only do most of the world’s Hindus, Jains and Sikhs live in India, but it also is home to one of the world’s largest Muslim populations and to millions of Christians and Buddhists. A major new Pew Research Center survey of
results on religion in many countries around the world. The primary researcher for “The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society” was James Bell, the director of international survey research for the Pew Research Center. He received valuable assistance from Senior Researcher Neha Sahgal , Research Associates Michael
Visit religions.pewforum.org for the online presentation of the findings of the Landscape Survey. Pew Forum Web Publishing and Communications Mark O’Keefe, Oliver Read and Chris Ingraham, Web Publishing Erin O’Connell, Robbie Mills and Liga Plaveniece, Communications Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life 1615 L Street, NW, Suite 700
identifying with other religions, including Islam, Protestant Christianity and Roman Catholicism, rose in the 1990s and then leveled off. (Estimates of the size of Russia’s Muslim population vary. The most recent ISSP survey finds that Muslims make up 5% of Russia’s population, but other surveys and studies have somewhat higher estimates. For
4. Among the world’s 25 most populous countries, Russia, Egypt, India, Pakistan and Indonesia had the highest overall restrictions on religion in 2015 33 Methodology 36 Appendix A: Government Restrictions Index 50 Appendix B: Social Hostilities Index 53 Appendix C: Religious restrictions index scores by region 56 Appendix D: Summary of results 58
Religion is just one of many aspects of life that have been touched by the pandemic. Family relationships, too, have been affected by lockdowns, economic turmoil and the consequences of falling ill. Many in countries that . were hit hard by initial waves of infections and deaths in the spring say their family relationships have strengthened.
governments and societies around the world impinge on religious beliefs and practices. The studies are part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, which analyzes religious change and its impact on societies around the world. To measure global restrictions on religion in 2019 – the most recent year for which data is
multitude of different traditional religions in Africa. Others point to unifying themes and, thus, prefer to think of a single faith with local differences. In general, traditional religion in Africa is characterized by belief in a supreme being who created and ordered the world but is often experienced as distant or unavailable to humans. Lesser