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The World´s Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography
Todd M. Johnson
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Description for The World´s Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 253 x 24. Weight in Grams: 762.
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.
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 ... Read more
- 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
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780470674543
SKU
V9780470674543
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About Todd M. Johnson
Todd M. Johnsonis Associate Professor of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. He is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University, where he co-edits the World Religion Database. Professor Johnson is the co-editor of the Atlas of Global Christianity (with ... Read more
Reviews for The World´s Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography
“Todd Johnson and Brian Grim have produced a synthesis of statistics and commentary that will stand as a landmark in the quantitative study of world religions.” (Journal of Contemporary Religion, 1 October 2014) “A very scholarly book with huge amounts of data included in it but with a major contribution to the methodology of taking forward religious demography ... Read more