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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. The 2017 volume features a wide range of subjects, including religious demography in Botswana, Protestantism in Guatemala, life satisfaction in Japan, fertility rates in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the movement of Muslims from the Middle East to Europe. Contributors are: Todd M. Johnson, Gina Zurlo, Peter Crossing, Muhammad Haron, Rachel M. McCleary, Robert J. Barro, Kimiko Tanaka, Jeong-Hwa Ho, Nan E. Johnson, Antonius Liedhegener, Anastas Odermatt, Michaela Potančoková, Marcin Stonawski, Anna Krysińska, Anaïs Simard-Gendron, Simona Bignami, Robert Dixon, Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, and Maria Concepción Servín Nieto.
Trade Review"The credentials of this volume’s editors and authors are impeccable and the tabulated statistics are comprehensive and detailed (...) This is an excellent and exhaustive survey and a worthy reference book for a generation of scholars and religionists in general." - Anthony J. Gittins, in: Missiology: An International Review Volume 47.1 (2019)
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: Botswana’s Religious Demographics: A Comparative Insight into its BC 2001 and BC 2011 Censuses Muhammad Haron Chapter 4: Measuring the Presence of Protestants in Guatemala, 1882–2010 Rachel M. McCleary and Robert J. Barro Chapter 5: Linking Religiosity to Life Satisfaction in Japan and the United States Kimiko Tanaka, Jeong-Hwa Ho, and Nan E. Johnson Chapter 6: Religious Affiliation and Religious Plurality in Europe: Introducing a New Approach of Estimating Country Data Based on Metadatabase-Comparison Antonius Liedhegener and Anastas Odermatt Chapter 7: How Many More Muslims? The Effect of Increased Numbers of Asylum Seekers on the Size of Muslim Populations in European Countries Michaela Potančoková, Marcin Stonawski, Anna Krysińska Chapter 8: God or the State? The Role of Religiosity and Nationalism to Explain Fertility Differentials in Israel and the Jewish Settlements of the West Bank and Gaza Strip Anaïs Simard-Gendron and Simona Bignami Chapter 9: The Demography of Australia’s Catholics: Method and Application Robert Dixon Part III - Data sources Chapter 10: Data Sources Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa and María Concepción Servín Nieto Appendices Glossary World religions by country Index
