"God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades". Officially, Arab states have major Muslim populations, varying from around 60% in Lebanon to almost 100% in Jordan or Saudi Arabia. [495][496] From the 10th century onwards,[497] Zoroastrians emigrated to Gujarat, India where they found asylum from unjust persecutions and since then are called Parsi, since Indians called Persia Faras and hence named them Parsi. Hinduism's 10-year growth rate is estimated at 20% (based on the period 1991 to 2001), corresponding to a yearly growth close to 2%. The mystic priest predicted to free the archipelago from the clutches of Islam and restore the glory of the Hindu Javanese religion. According to Pew research, 13 percent of Americans today self-identify as "former Catholics," and many of them leave organized religion altogether. [236] According to Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans, the number of Iranian Americans Muslims decreased from 42% in 2008 to 31% in 2012 according to a telephone survey around the Los Angeles region. Muslims are not evenly distributed around the country. [26], According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 32 million babies were born to Buddhist mothers and roughly 20 million Buddhists died, meaning that the natural increase in the Buddhists population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 12 million over this period". If you believe in the evil eye, you may want to take some steps to protect yourself from this curse. "They were reporting on the mass conversions of Muslimsas many as 6-8 millionin sub-Saharan, Africa, and they have repeated the warning every year," he said. But many people, disgusted by the role that some priests and nuns played in the killing frenzy, have shunned organized religion altogether, and many more have turned to Islam. the survey was based on 50,000 respondents with 90% of those surveyed living in Iran. 27 views, 2 likes, 0 loves, 0 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Dodi Sefriadi: Murtad dulu entar syahadat lagi. More recently (20002010), the countries with highest growth rates are Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and some African countries. In recent years, the number of American Muslims has been growing steadily, by around 100,000 annually. It has a 95% confidence level and a 5% margin of error. Special administrative areas in China are Buddhist majority areas such as Macau, Tibet, and Hong Kong. [451][452] According to Anne Elizabeth Wynn of The Statesman, "The two most recent American Religious Identification Surveys declare Wicca, one form of paganism, as the fastest growing spiritual identification in America". [488][489] Mary Jones says Wicca is one of the fastest-growing religions in the United States as well. [3] A comprehensive religious forecast for 2050 by the Pew Research Center predicts that the global Muslim population will grow at a faster rate than the Christian population primarily due to the average younger age and higher fertility rate of Muslims. [30], Buddhism is the majority and state religion in six countries: Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Bhutan and Laos. [31] According to scholars of religious demographics, there are between 488 million,[32] 495 million,[33] and 535 million[34] Buddhists in the world. [409][410] In 2013, two scholars of demography wrote that, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahai (sic) was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN region. Famed new believers like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Keith Ellison seem to get all the attentionalong with flamboyant. By actually counting the number of people who showed up at representative sample of churches, two researchers, Kirk Hadaway and Penny Marler found that only 20.4 percent of the population, or half the Gallup figure, attended church each weekend. [268], The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) survey estimated that between 1990 and 2001 the number of self-identifying deists grew from 6,000 to 49,000, representing about 0.02% of the US population at the time.[269]. . [237] While on the other hand, in 2017, scholars Landon Schnabel and Sean Bock at Harvard University and Indiana University argued that while "Mainline Protestant" churches has declined in the United States since the late 1980s, but many of them do not leave Christianity, but rather convert to another Christian denomination, in particularly to evangelicalism. [320] As per U.N.'s global population forecasts, as well as the It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. [81] According to scholar Terence Chong, since 1980s Protestantism is expanding in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and South Korea. [433][434][435][436] Meanwhile in other times or places the religion has experienced surges in growth. And only two western European countries France and Belgium will become around 10 percent Muslim, by 2030. Changes in son preference, ultrasound use and fertility", "Census shocker: Sikhs report lowest sex ratio", "India's Sex Ratio at Birth Begins To Normalize", "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables Religion (108), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 National Household Survey", "What is the Fastest Growing Religion in Australia? By 2011, the number of Muslims had grown to 2.75 million (including 1.8 million adults). [39] Comparing this with other surveys, evidence suggests that nowadays three-fifths to four-fifths of the Chinese believe in folk religion. Uwe Siemon-Netto confirmed in 2016 that "a global phenomenon is underway: Muslims are converting to various Christian denominations in droves in every part of the world." Indeed, Christian. replacement level. [110], The 19th century saw at least 250,000 Jews convert to Christianity according to existing records of various societies. Seeing Your Alive Mother Dying in your dream may also signify premonition, isolation or trust issues from people. [235] A June 2020 online survey found a much smaller percentage of Iranians stating they believe in Islam, with half of those surveyed indicating they had lost their religious faith. Over that same time period, the number of people who do not identify with any particular religion increased from 16 percent to 29 percent. [246] According to a study by a scholar Fenggang Yang from Purdue University, Christianity is "spreading among the Chinese of South-East Asia", and "Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity is growing more quickly in China",[247] also according to him, more than half of them have university degrees. Toleransi yang mengundang murka Allah [319] While Muslim birth rates are expected to experience a decline, it will remain above replacement level and higher fertility than the world's overall by 2050. According to statistics in Canada, the number of "Nones" increased by about 60% between 1985 and 2004. ), According to Pew Research Center survey in 2012, religiously unaffiliated (include agnostic and atheist) make up about 18.2% of Europe's population,[450] and they make up the majority of the population in only two European countries: Czech Republic (76%) and Estonia (60%). [486][479] By 2050, according to Pew research center based on growth rate of current Sikh population between (2001-2011), India will have 27,129,086 Sikhs by half-century which will be more than that of any country including the Western world. [440][441][442], Because Bah's do not represent the majority of the population in any country,[443] and most often represent only a tiny fraction of countries' total populations,[444] there are problems of under-reporting. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, between 1965 and 1985 about 2.5million Indonesians converted from Islam to Christianity. [319] Between 2010 and 2015, with exception of the Middle East and North Africa, Muslim fertility of any other region in the world was higher than the rate for the region as a whole. Some faiths grow exponentially at first (especially, for example, along trade routes[27] [3] In 1990, 1.1billion people were Muslims, while in 2010, 1.6billion people were Muslims. Table 4.1: Police officer leavers, by route of exit, years ending 31 March . From 2000-2010, only a total of 135 out of 686 applications by Muslims seeking . [195], Resurgent Islam is one of the most dynamic religious movements in the contemporary world. [270] About 26.3% of the Israeli Druze population are under 14 years old and about 6.1% of the Israeli Druze are 65 years and over. Kalmykia is the only Buddhist majority region in Europe. "People died in my . . [342] Pew study also reveals that Muslims are younger than other Europeans. The large number of Iranian American former Muslims is the result of a spike in immigration from Iran following the Iranian Revolution of 1978 and 1979 which included many secular Iranians seeking political refuge from the new theocratic regime. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. [266] By 2012 percentage of Christians on mentioned communities was 71%, more than 30% and 37%,[267] respectively. This has only been achieved in rare cases, and then only for particular countries, such as the American Religious Identification Survey[451] in the United States, or census data from Australia (which has included a voluntary religious question since 1911). [29], Buddhism is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, who was born in modern day Nepal and lived and taught in India in the 5th century BC. [382] [362][363], According to Rodney Stark, Islam was spread after military conquests after Arab armies began overtaking Christian regions from Syria to North Africa and Spain,[364] as well as Zoroastrian, Buddhist and Hindu regions in Central Asia, parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia via military invasions,[365][366][367] traders and Sufi missionaries. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. 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", most of them are women and African-Americans. Another study found that the number of people who will leave Islam is 9,400,000 and the number of converts to Islam is 12,620,000 so the net gain to Islam through conversion should be 3 million between 2010 and 2050, . [65], The significant growth of Christianity in non-Western countries led to regional distribution changes of Christians. Religion remains one of modern Malaysia's most sensitive topics, especially when it comes to Islam, the country's official faith . [70] According to the same study, a large majority of those who raised as Christians (83%) in Western Europe, still identified themselves as Christians today. [26] Religious switching is a sensitive topic in India,[523][19] and carries social and legal repercussions including the death penalty for apostasy in Muslim-majority countries. [52] Christians have 2.7 children per woman, which is above replacement level (2.1). Islam is now the second most popular religion on the planet with more . The results gave a figure of 1,400 conversions in the capital in the past 12 months which, when. HarperCollins, 2009, p.15,93. [338], By 2010 an estimated 44 million Muslims were living in Europe (6%), up from 4.1% in 1990. A correction has been made to table asy_07b (asylum seekers in receipt of support) in the publication 'Immigration Statistics, year ending June 2019'. Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Malaysia are said to have the fastest-growing Christian communities and the majority of the new believers are "upwardly mobile, urban, middle-class Chinese". Especially in the rural areas, the speed and scale of its development are much faster and larger than is the case with Buddhism and Christianity [] in Zhejiang province, where Christianity is better established than elsewhere, temples of folk religion are usually twenty or even a hundred times as numerous as Christian church buildings. [327] While both religions will grow but Muslim population will exceed the Christian population and by 2100, Muslim population (35%) will be 1% more than the Christian population (34%). [38] According to the same study Buddhists "are projected to decline in absolute number, dropping 7% from nearly 500 million in 2015 to 462 million in 2060. This scenario (Chinese scenario) is based primarily on sensitivity tests. [394] Studies have shown that Haredi Jews population is rising rapidly due to the young age and very high fertility-rate,[395] especially in Israel. Additionally, in some countries, legal and social consequences make conversion difficult. Since our first estimate of the size of the Muslim American population, the number of U.S. Muslims has been growing rapidly, albeit from a relatively low base. Although some national censuses ask people about their religion, they do not ask if they have converted to their presently espoused faith. Although they purchased some toleration by paying the jizya (poll tax), not abolished until 1882, they were treated as an inferior race, had to wear distinctive garb, and were not allowed to ride horses or bear arms. [478][479] Sikhs have the lowest fertility rate amongst India's four major religious groups, at 1.6 children per woman in 2019-20. Likewise, certain states, such asNew Jersey, are home to two or three times as many Muslim adults per capita as the national average. Most of the net growth in the numbers of Christians is in Africa, Latin America and Asia. [398], There is also a trend of Orthodox movements reaching out to secular Jews in order to give them a stronger Jewish identity so there is less chance of intermarriage. [482] In contrast to the religion's slowing growth in India, Sikhism is the fastest growing religion in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. As teenagers and 20-somethings seek to earn a. [124][a] Countries with the largest numbers of Muslims converted to Christianity according to this study include Indonesia (6,500,000),[125] Nigeria (600,000),[125] Iran (500,000 versus only 500 in 1979),[125] the United States (450,000),[126] Ethiopia (400,000) and Algeria (380,000). [46], The Chinese folk religion is a "diffused religion" rather than "institutional". On the other hand, the secular West and East Asia have very low fertility and rapidly aging populations. [317] According to Foreign Policy, high birth rates were cited as the reason for the Muslim population growth. According to him, Muslims will be a significant minority rather than majority in Europe and as per their projections for 2050 in the Western Europe, there will be 1015 per cent Muslim population in high immigration countries such as Germany, France and the UK. [83], The US Department of State estimated in 2005 that Protestants in Vietnam may have grown by 600% over the previous 10 years. [500][492], India has the world's largest Zoroastrian population who are called Parsis. Look at who is 'going forth and multiplying', FAQ from Adherents.com describing why it is difficult to measure the fastest-growing religion, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Growth_of_religion&oldid=1141030901, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 00:39.