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

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

General

Imprint:	John Wiley & Sons
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2013
First published:	June 2013
Authors:	T. M. Johnson
Dimensions:	258 x 172 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	400
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-470-67454-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General Promotions
LSN:	0-470-67454-7
Barcode:	9780470674543

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