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Religion Religion is a range of social system, social-cultural systems, including designated religious behaviour, behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, religious text, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics in religion, ethics, or ...
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Faith Faith is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, faith is " belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion". According to the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, faith has multiple definitions, inc ...
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Theocracy Theocracy is a form of autocracy or oligarchy in which one or more deity, deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries, with executive and legislative power, who manage the government's ...
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Buddhism by country This list shows the distribution of the Buddhist religion, practiced by about 300 million, representing 4.1% of the world's total population. It also includes other entities such as some territories. Buddhism is the state religion in four coun ...
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Christianity by country According to a PEW estimation in 2020, Christians made up to 2.38 billion of the worldwide population of about 8 billion people.33.39% of ~7.2 billion world population (under the section 'People') It represents nearly one-third of the ...
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Catholic Church by country The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the pope)."Richard P. McBrien. ''The Church: The Evolution of Catholicism.'' (New York: Harper ...
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Protestantism by country There are approximately 833,457,000 Protestants worldwide,Jay Diamond, Larry. Plattner, Marc F. and Costopoulos, Philip J. ''World Religions and Democracy''. 2005, page 119link(saying "Not only do Protestants presently constitute 13 percent of ...
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Eastern Orthodoxy by country Based on the numbers of adherents, the Eastern Orthodox Church (also known as Eastern Orthodoxy) is the second largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church, with the most common estimates of baptised members being ap ...
and Oriental Orthodoxy by country) *
Hinduism by country Hinduism has approximately 1.2 billion adherents worldwide (15% of the world's population). Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world behind Christianity (32.8%) and Islam (23.3%).Islam by country Adherents of Islam constitute the world's second largest and fastest growing major religious grouping, maintaining suggested 2017 projections in 2022. As of 2020, Pew Research Center (PEW) projections suggest there are a total of 1.9 billion a ...
* Judaism by country or
Jewish population by country the world's core Jewish population (those identifying as Jews above all else) was estimated at 15.8 million, which is approximately 0.2% of the 8 billion worldwide population. Israel hosts the largest core Jewish population in the world with ...
* List of religious populations * Importance of religion by country * List of countries by irreligion *
Sikhism by country Most of the 25–30 million followers of Sikhism, the Major religious groups, world's fifth-largest religion live in the northern Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab, the only Sikh-majority administrative division on Earth, but Sikhs, Sikh com ...
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Religion and geography Religion and geography is the study of the impact of geography, i.e. place and space, on religious belief. Another aspect of the relationship between religion and geography is ''religious geography'', in which geographical ideas are influence ...
* Religious information by country * State religion


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References

* World Religions Religion Statistics Geography Church Statistics
BBC News's ''Muslims in Europe: Country guide''

CIA FactBook

Religious Intelligence

The University of Virginia

The US State Department's ''International Religious Freedom Report 2007''

The US State Department's Background Notes



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