The world's religions in figures : an introduction to international religious demography / Todd M. Johnson and Brian J. Grim ; with Gina A. Bellofatto ; foreword by Peter L. Berger.

• Part I: Overview. Global Religious Populations, 1910-2010 ; Regional Religious Populations, 1910-2010 ; Religious Diversity ; Projecting Religious Populations, 2010-50. -- Part II: Data and Methods. Defining Religion and Religious Identity ; Religious Demography as an Emerging Discipline ; Major Sources and Collections of Data ; Analyzing Data on Religion ; Dynamics of Change in Religious Populations. -- Part III: Case Studies. Estimating Changes in the Global Muslim Population ; Factors Driving Change in the Global Muslim Population ; Estimating China's Religious Populations ; Assessing Religious Populations in the Sudans ; Migration and Religious Diasporas ; Conclusion.

• "Created by two of the field's leading experts, this unique introduction to international religious demography outlines the challenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, and presents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief. This book: Offers the first comprehensive overview of the field of international religious demography - detailing what we know about religious adherents around the world, and how we know it ; Examines religious freedom and diversity, including agnostics and atheists, on a global scale, highlighting trends over the past 100 years and projecting estimates for the year 2050 ; Outlines the issues and challenges related to definitions, taxonomies, sources, analyses, and other techniques in interpreting data on religious adherence ; Considers data from religious communities, censuses, surveys, and scholarly research, along with several in-depth case studies on the global Muslim population, religion in China, and the religious demography 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 the contrary ; Provides resources for measuring both qualitatively and quantitatively important data on the world's religious situation in the twenty-first century."--Publisher's website. 

Ämnesord

Religions  -- Statistics. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

BL80.3 (LCC)

200.21 (DDC)

C (kssb/8 (machine generated))