Christianity 2015: Religious Diversity and Personal Contact (original) (raw)
Related papers
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2008
The international religious data in the World Christian Database (WCD), and its print predecessor, the World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE) have been used frequently in academic studies and the popular press. Scholars have raised questions about the WCD's estimates categories, and potential bias, but the data have not yet been systematically assessed. We test the reliability of the WCD by comparing its religious composition estimates to four other data sources (World Values Survey, Pew Global Assessment Project, CIA World Factbook, and the U.S. Department of State), finding that estimates are highly correlated. In comparing the WCD estimates for Islamic countries and American Christian adherents with local data sources, we identify specific groups for which estimates differ. In addition, we discuss countries where the data sets provide inconsistent religious estimates. Religious composition estimates in the WCD are generally plausible and consistent with other data sets. The WCD also includes comprehensive nonreligious data. Recommendations regarding the use of the WCD are given.
Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2014
The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook.
The Global Religious Landscape Collaborating Researchers Table of Contents
2012
to generate up-to-date and fully sourced estimates of the current size and projected growth of the world's major religious groups. As part of this multi-phase project, the Pew Forum has assembled data on the size and geographic distribution of eight major religious groups-including the religiously unafliated-as of. These estimates are presented in this report. The estimates are based on a country-by-country analysis of data from more than , censuses, surveys and ofcial population registers that were collected, evaluated and standardized by the staff of the Pew Forum over the past several years. Researchers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, and at the Vienna Institute of Demography in Vienna, Austria, collaborated on the analysis. This effort is part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, which analyzes religious change and its impact on societies around the world. The project is jointly and generously funde...
Theological Librarianship, 2010
World Missionary conference, 1910) was presented to the conference. The Atlas of Global Christianity is published on the occasion of the 2010 centenary of the conference as a successor to that work, as a retrospective review of one hundred years of christianity, and as a look forward to the development of global christianity in the near future. The editors claim that it "aims, through a combination of maps, tables, charts, graphs and text, to present a comprehensive analysis of christianity in the modern world" (xi). it is both more and less than that. it is also a comparison of christianity in relation to other religions (part i), an historical overview of changes in christianity since 1910 (throughout), an introduction to the study of global christianity (essays), and at times a roadmap for the promotion of christian mission (parts ii, iii, and V). Where it falls short is as a "comprehensive analysis"; it would be more accurate to call it a comprehensive overview and introductory analysis of global christianity.
Christianity in its Global Context, 1970-2020
This report was produced by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, located at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA. The Center collates and analyzes data on church membership and activities collected by thousands of Christian denominations around the world. Combining this with other relevant demographic data, the Center provides a reliable profile of global Christianity and world religions available to various constituents for research and strategic planning. The Center serves students, researchers, scholars, journalists, and missionaries who want to explore a specific area within global Christianity or a world religion.
World Christianity and Mission 2021: Questions about the Future
International Bulletin of Mission Research
This article marks the thirty-seventh year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the International Bulletin of Mission Research. This year it includes details on some of the most frequently asked questions in quantifying mission and global Christianity: the number of missionaries worldwide, global access to the gospel, and the burgeoning Pentecostal/Charismatic movement. The article also provides brief methodological reflections on how the future of this kind of research might change, given the realities of COVID-19.