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Book SynopsisThe 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. Contributors are: Todd Johnson, Gina Zurlo, Peter Crossing, Juan Cruz Esquivel, Fortunato Mallimaci, Annalisa Butticci, Brian Grim, Philip Connor, Ken Chitwood, Vegard Skirbekk, Marcin Stonawski, Rodrigo Franklin de Sousa, Davis Brown, Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, and Maria Concepción Servín Nieto.
Table of ContentsContents Preface to the annual series List of illustrations Editors and contributors Introduction Part I: Religious demographic data Chapter 1: The world by religion Todd M. Johnson, Gina A. Zurlo, and Peter F. Crossing Chapter 2: Religions by continent Todd M. Johnson, Gina A. Zurlo, and Peter F. Crossing Part II: Case studies and methodology Chapter 3: “Religious Beliefs and Practices in Argentina: An Approach from Quantitative Data” Juan Cruz Esquivel and Fortunato Mallimaci Chapter 4: “African Pentecostal Churches in Italy: A Troubled Presence in a Catholic Country” Annalisa Butticci Chapter 5: “Changing Religion, Changing Economies: Future Global Religious and Economic Growth” Brian J. Grim and Phillip Connor Chapter 6: “Exploring Islam in the Americas from Demographic and Ethnographic Perspectives” Ken Chitwood Chapter 7: “Faith and Health Globally” Vegard Skirbekk and Marcin Stonawski Chapter 8: “Shifting Christian Identities in Brazil: What the Numbers (Do Not) Show” Rodrigo Franklin de Sousa Chapter 9: “Religious Demographics and Democracy” Davis Brown Part III: Data sources Chapter 10: “Data Sources” Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa and María Concepción Servín Nieto Appendices Glossary World religions by country Index
