Demographics of Religion

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Demographics of Religion

Non-religious Shrinking; the World Is Going to Become More Religious

Statistics seem conflicting when discussing the demographics of religion in the world. This is because global analyses must take into account population growth per country, as well as migration, and countless other variables. Last year (April 2015), the Pew Research Center produced data and an incredibly interesting report that stated:

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More on the Stickability of "No Religion" and Religion

Yesterday, I posted about data that has come out of the UK that shows that "nones" are increasing in proportion of the population and that "no religion" appears to stick more with people than religion, particularly Christianity. In other words, if you were born into "

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"No religion" Sticks Better than Christianity

I reported the other day on the recent YouGov survey that showed that "nones" are becoming more prevalent and proportionally widespread in UK society than Christians, especially in the younger echelons. However, from the Daily Mail (gah!) article, there was a particular quote from Professor Linda Woodhead that

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Poll: "Majority of white adults say they have no religion and the number is set to rise"

The Daily Mail reports of a new YouGov poll: The majority of white Britons say they have no religion, a new study shows. Research reveals that 46 per cent of adults of all races identify as having no religion, compared with the 42 per cent who considered themselves Christian. The

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Poll shows 0.0% of Icelanders 25 years or younger believe God created the world

Wow. That is something. Talk about an interesting stat. Iceland Magazine reports: [caption id="attachment_6848" align="alignright" width="212"] By Max Naylor [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Iceland seems to be on its way to becoming an even more secular nation, according

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UK: 49% have no religion, Anglican Church collapse continues, Islam increases ten-fold since 1983

New findings by the National Centre for Social Research have confirmed the long-term collapse in affiliation with the Church of England and the huge increase in non-belief. Strikingly, the research also found that there had been a ten-fold increase in those identifying with Islam in the past 32 y

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New Britian Uncovered Survey, including on religion

The Guardian reports this extremely interesting set of British attitudinal survey results. Check the ones on religion out:   Religion Which of the following religions or belief systems, if any, do you associate with? Church of England = 33% Catholicism = 10% Other Christian = 9% Islam = 3% Hinduism = 2% Judaism = 1% Other religion

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The terminal decline of Christianity in New Zealand

The results of the 2013 New Zealand Census has Christianity down to 47 per cent. Retired scientist, Ken Perrott's, accompanying graph charts Christianity's decline in every recent census and projects its decline to just above 20 per cent by 2030 and further, beyond that date. It is, of course, very

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Church attendance massively boosted by control of state-funded schools

From the BHA: Research published today by the Sutton Trust has reported that 6% of parents across England and 11% in London claim they attend church regularly in order to get their children into church-controlled schools. The figures, which are for parents with children aged 5-16, compare with 12% of

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Merry Times for Atheism

As Americans gather to celebrate Christmas, fewer and fewer actually believe they are celebrating the birth of a divine being who subsequently died and then rose from the dead. But if you look around during the holiday season, that doesn't seem to matter much.

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Study finds religious fundamentalism unexpectedly common in Europe

From the National Secular Society: Religious fundamentalism is not a marginal phenomenon in Western Europe, nor is it restricted to Islam. This conclusion is drawn in a large-scale study published by Ruud Koopmans from the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

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British Social Attitudes Survey shows 48% of Britons non religious

The results of the 30th British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) released last week show almost half of the population say that they do not belong to a religion. The increase in the non religious is almost entirely mirrored by a decline in the proportion of people who describe themselves as belonging t

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Pope Francis to visit favela indicative of Catholicism on the wane in Brazil

Tour comes amid division over how to stem flow of believers, particularly from poor communities, towards evangelism When Pope Francis returns to his home continent on Monday as the first Latin American pontiff, the world's attention is likely to focus on the adoration of more than a million worsh

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Poll shows atheism strong among Britain's youth

From the Rationalist Association: A new YouGov survey suggests the decline of religious belief in Britain will continue for some time New data published this week by the polling organisation YouGov shows that Britain's youth are continuing to reject religious belief in large numbers.

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The second-largest religious faith in Canada? Nothing

This is interesting, though the numbers are inaccurate given that the census has become voluntary, and, as such, the completion rate for the census was very low. OTTAWA – A nation of non-believers? The new National Household Survey suggests we could be becoming so.

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Atheism to Defeat Religion By 2038

Countries with the best standard of living are turning atheist. That shift offers a glimpse into the world's future. Religious people are annoyed by claims that belief in God will go the way of horse transportation, and for much the same reason, specifically an improved standard of living.

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Intelligence and Religiosity Explored

My fellow SINner, blogger and clinical psychologist, Dr Caleb Lack of the Great Plains Skeptic blog has been producing a series analysing data and theories concerning correlations between intelligence and religiosity in people. There have been a number of studies, and many people have highlighted an

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Majority of Scots have no religion, study shows

The religious affiliation question in the 2011 (June-September) Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) Survey reveals that the majority (53%) of Scottish adults in 2011 professed no faith, up by 16% from 2001. The Christian share fell from 61% to 44% during the decade, mostly among the Church of Scotland (down from

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Non-believers taking college campuses by storm

vAs Katherine Don reports here. This month at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a select group of students will show their humanitarian spirit by participating in the Bleedin’ Heathens Blood Drive. On February 12, they will eat cake to celebrate Darwin Day, and earlier this year, they

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Outside an organized religion, ‘the nones’ are still powerful voting bloc

It's a voting bloc as big as Hispanics, 18- to 24-year-olds and the staunchest pro-lifers, and it broke for the Democratic presidential nominee by a margin of 44 points.

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Intelligent people 'less likely to believe in God'

Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the "intellectual elite" considered themselves atheists than the national average. A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence

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Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona Democrat, To Replace Pete Stark As Sole Atheist In Congress

(RNS) Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., the only openly atheist member of Congress, lost his race for another term on Tuesday (Nov. 6). But nonbelievers will not remain unrepresented in the Capitol. Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, a former Arizona state senator, Mormon-turned-nontheist and a bisexual, has narrow

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No religious person found by survey under the age of 28 in Eastern Germany - the most Godless place on earth?

They are sending missionaries to eastern Germany. A recent study called Beliefs About God Across Time and Countries found that 52.1% of people asked whether they believed in God identified themselves as atheists. This compared with only 10.3% in western Germany. Indeed, the survey was unable to find

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How evangelicals are making children their missionaries in public schools

Katherine Stewart in The Guardian has detailed this scary phenomenon which has been a problem bubbling in the educational undercurrents for some time now. Gives me the chill (as an educator myself). [caption id="attachment_4915" align="alignleft" width="150"] freeimages.com Cíntia Martins[

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46% of Britons say they are non-religious: largest single category of identity

This fascinating piece of research has been reported by the British Humanist Association, which I have reproduced here. What is clear is that it would be incorrect to call Britain a Christian or even a religious nation. What will be really interesting is when the official census statistics from the