Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
share of Russians identifying with a religion rose almost as much between 1998 and 2008 as it did 2 For the full results on these questions, see pages 12-14. 3 For more information on religion during the Soviet period, see Anderson, J. 1994. “Religion, State and Politics in the Soviet Union and Successor States.” Cambridge University Press.
officially kept religion out of public life. But today, for most people living in the former Eastern bloc, being Christian (whether Catholic or Orthodox) is an important component of their national identity. In Western Europe, by contrast, most people don’t feel that religion is a major part of their national identity. In France and the United
THE WORLD’S MUSLIMS: RELIGION, POLITICS AND SOCIETY . www.pewforum.org . PREFACE . This report examines the social and political views of Muslims around the world. It is based on public opinion surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center between 2008 and 2012 in a total of 39 countries and territories on three continents: Africa, Asia a nd ...
those who attend less often. Other religion/don’t know/ref. are mostly Muslim respondents. General population surveys in Western Europe may not fully capture the size of minority populations, such as Muslims. Therefore, these figures may differ from previously published demographic estimates. Figures may not add to 100% due to rounding.
Saharan Africa and smaller ones in Europe. Buddhists (3.9), Jews (3.7) and the religiously unaffiliated (3.7) – defined as those who do not identify with an organized religion, also known as “nones” – live in smaller households, on average. Muslims and Hindus live in biggest households Average individual resides in a household of ___ people
Europe’s population as of 2050 would be expected to be somewhere between 11.2% and 14%. While Europe’s Muslim population is expected to grow in all three scenarios – and more than double in the medium and high migration scenarios – Europe’s non-Muslims, on the other hand, are projected to decline in total number in each scenario ...
3 During the communist era in Eastern and Central Europe, government repression of religion was widespread. In the Soviet Union, anti-religious actions by the state included executing priests, confiscating church property and banning religious literature and proselytization. In
certain religious groups – were related to Europe’s incoming refugee population. In 2015, 1.3 million migrants . applied for asylum in Europe, nearly doubling the previous annual high of about 700,000 in 1992, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. More than half (54%) came from three Muslim-majority countries – Syria, Afghanistan ...
telephone (both cellphones and landlines) in 2017 as part of a broader survey of religion in Western Europe. 1 This report uses the term “church tax” because that is a direct translation of the wording commonly used in many European countries,
To measure global restrictions on religion in 2019 – the most recent year for which data is available – the study rates 198 countries and territories by their levels of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion. The new study is based on the same 10-point indexes used in the previous studies.