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The World's Religions in Figures - An Introduction to International Religious Demography (Hardcover, New)
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The World's Religions in Figures - An Introduction to International Religious Demography (Hardcover, New)
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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. *
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
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