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To: SilentZ who wrote (184879)3/16/2004 10:11:34 AM
From: Road Walker  Respond to of 1575980
 
FWIW, adherents.com

Couldn't find any trend info (brief look), but the relative numbers are interesting.

Major Religions of the World
Ranked by Number of Adherents

Last modified 6 September 2002.

(Sizes shown are approximate estimates, and are here mainly for the purpose of ordering the groups, not providing a definitive number. This list is sociological/statistical in perspective.)
Christianity: 2 billion

Islam: 1.3 billion

Hinduism: 900 million

Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 850 million

Buddhism: 360 million

Chinese traditional religion: 225 million

primal-indigenous: 150 million

African Traditional & Diasporic: 95 million

Sikhism: 23 million

Juche: 19 million

Spiritism: 14 million

Judaism: 14 million

Baha'i: 6 million

Jainism: 4 million

Shinto: 4 million

Cao Dai: 3 million

Tenrikyo: 2.4 million

Neo-Paganism: 1 million

Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand

Rastafarianism: 700 thousand

Scientology: 600 thousand

Zoroastrianism: 150 thousand



To: SilentZ who wrote (184879)3/16/2004 5:19:06 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1575980
 
Interesting......how did you come up with 150 million?

I've read statistics in a number of places saying that about 15% of the world's Muslims support Islamic militancy. There are about 1 billion Muslims in the world, and that number is increasing rapidly. 15% of 1 billion is 150 million.

Z, that's disappointing to hear. I had hoped their constituency was not that big.

ted


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