Religion Around the World
Religion around the World
The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted an interesting study regarding the demographics of worldwide religions. The group began by accumulating data from national censuses; analyzing the data from over twenty five hundred different censuses, large-scale surveys and official registers. Using this information the study group analyzed how religious change impacts societies found around the world. After gathering the required data, they went on to base their study on self-identification; by estimating the number of people around the world who view and identify themselves to a particular religion. It focuses on eight different religions groups; Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Jews which are the five main religions of our world. But they also included three other religion groups which are not well known to many people. Folk or Traditional Religions which are religions tied to a particular tribe or group. A couple of examples are the African traditional religions, Native American religions and the Aboriginal groups of Australia. The second group included The Religiously Unaffiliated which included atheists, agnostics any people who do not identify with any particular religion. And the third group included Other Religions compromised groups like Jainism, Shintoism, Taoism, Sikhism, Wicca and several others. In my opinion I feel like the findings are reliable due to the fact that the research team went over twenty five hundred censuses, surveys and registers. The only possible way to get this type of information is through official channels and after collecting it, several more months to decipher and calculate the data. I looked online to find information on The Pew Research center and they have done polls or research forums on several different topics and their findings have been published news networks, magazines and newspapers. Companies would not used this info unless The Pew Research Forum was not a
The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted an interesting study regarding the demographics of worldwide religions. The group began by accumulating data from national censuses; analyzing the data from over twenty five hundred different censuses, large-scale surveys and official registers. Using this information the study group analyzed how religious change impacts societies found around the world. After gathering the required data, they went on to base their study on self-identification; by estimating the number of people around the world who view and identify themselves to a particular religion. It focuses on eight different religions groups; Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Jews which are the five main religions of our world. But they also included three other religion groups which are not well known to many people. Folk or Traditional Religions which are religions tied to a particular tribe or group. A couple of examples are the African traditional religions, Native American religions and the Aboriginal groups of Australia. The second group included The Religiously Unaffiliated which included atheists, agnostics any people who do not identify with any particular religion. And the third group included Other Religions compromised groups like Jainism, Shintoism, Taoism, Sikhism, Wicca and several others. In my opinion I feel like the findings are reliable due to the fact that the research team went over twenty five hundred censuses, surveys and registers. The only possible way to get this type of information is through official channels and after collecting it, several more months to decipher and calculate the data. I looked online to find information on The Pew Research center and they have done polls or research forums on several different topics and their findings have been published news networks, magazines and newspapers. Companies would not used this info unless The Pew Research Forum was not a