Johnson / Grim The World's Religions in Figures

An Introduction to International Religious Demography
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-32303-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, E-Book

Created by two of the field's leading experts, this uniqueintroduction to international religious demography outlines thechallenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, andpresents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief.
* Offers the first comprehensive overview of the field ofinternational religious demography - detailing what we knowabout religious adherents around the world, and how we know it
* Examines religious freedom and diversity, including agnosticsand atheists, on a global scale, highlighting trends over the past100 years and projecting estimates for the year 2050
* Outlines the issues and challenges related to definitions,taxonomies, sources, analyses, and other techniques in interpretingdata on religious adherence
* Considers data from religious communities, censuses, surveys,and scholarly research, along with several in-depth case studies onthe global Muslim population, religion in China, and the religiousdemography of recently created Sudan and South Sudan
* Argues against the belief that the twentieth-century was a'secular' period by putting forward new evidence to thecontrary
* Provides resources for measuring both qualitatively andquantitatively important data on the world's religious situation inthe twenty-first century

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Todd M.

Grim, Brian J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures xiii
List of Tables xiv
Foreword xix
Acknowledgments xxiv
Introduction 1
Part I Overview 7
1 Global Religious Populations, 1910-2010 9
2 Regional Religious Populations, 1910-2010 81
3 Religious Diversity 93
4 Projecting Religious Populations, 2010-50 111
Part II Data and Methods 133
5 Defining Religion and Religious Identity 135
6 Religious Demography as an Emerging Discipline 143
7 Major Sources and Collections of Data 163
8 Analyzing Data on Religion 190
9 Dynamics of Change in Religious Populations 205
Part III Case Studies 227
10 Estimating Changes in the Global Muslim Population 229
11 Factors Driving Change in the Global Muslim Population258
12 Estimating China's Religious Populations 286
13 Assessing Religious Populations in the Sudans 313
14 Migration and Religious Diasporas 321
Conclusion 333
Appendix: World Religions by Country 337
Glossary 346
Index 360

Über Autor(innen)

ToddM. Johnsonis Associate Professor of Global Christianity atGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Director of the Center forthe Study of Global Christianity. He is Visiting Research Fellow atthe Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) atBoston University, where he co-edits the World ReligionDatabase. Professor Johnson is the co-editor of the Atlas ofGlobal Christianity (with Kenneth Ross, 2009) and co-author ofWorld Christianity Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition(with David Barrett and George Kurian, 2001) and World ChristianTrends (with David Barrett, et al, 2001). He is also the editor ofthe World ChristianDatabase.Brian J. Grim is Director of cross-national data and SeniorResearcher in religion and world affairs at the Pew Research Center's Forum onReligion & Public Life in Washington, D.C. Dr Grim is alsoVisiting Research Fellow at the Institute on Culture, Religion, andWorld Affairs at Boston University, where he co-edits the WorldReligion Database. He is co-author ofThe Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflictin the 21st Century (with Roger Finke,2011).