Schnabel and Bock argued also that evangelicalism and Conservative Christianity has persisted and expanded in the United States. [445] In addition, there are examples where the adherents have their highest density among minorities in societies who face their own challenges. Seeing Your Alive Mother Dying in your dream may also signify premonition, isolation or trust issues from people. Although such attitudes have a long history in Europe, the idea that Muslims are 'the enemy' has become more widespread over the last 30 years. 16 February 2008. [463] Today, India is home to the largest Sikh population with 1.7% of its population, or about 20 million people identifying as Sikh. [396], The overall growth rate of Jews in Israel is 1.7% annually. Although they purchased some toleration by paying the jizya (poll tax), not abolished until 1882, they were treated as an inferior race, had to wear distinctive garb, and were not allowed to ride horses or bear arms. Hibatullah Akhundzada praised his movement's advance in every corner of the country and celebrated the historic seizure of Kabul in August 2021 as one more. [305] A 2007 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report argued that some Muslim population projections are overestimated, as they assume that all descendants of Muslims will become Muslims even in cases of mixed parenthood. It also stated that over a 50% decline was found in 22 Muslim countries and over a 60% decline in Iran, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Libya, Albania, Qatar and Kuwait. [505] A slower birthrate than deathrate accounts for the rest: as of 2001, Parsis over the age of 60 make up for 31% of the community. 55% of the Muslims who quit Islam prefer to follow no religion while 22% specifically adopt to become Christians. [338], By 2010 an estimated 44 million Muslims were living in Europe (6%), up from 4.1% in 1990. Jay Diamond, Larry. "[] the insignificant amount of this yearly tax, the fact that it was progressive, that elders, poor people, handicapped, women, children, monks, and hermits were exempted, leave no doubt about exploitation or persecution of those who did not accept Islam. Statistics commonly measure the absolute number of adherents, the percentage of the absolute growth per-year, and the growth of converts in the world. [52], Europe was the home for the world's largest Christian population for the past 1,000 years, since 2015 Christians in Africa and Latin America respectively surpass Europe Christian population because of the high fertility rate there. From 2000-2010, only a total of 135 out of 686 applications by Muslims seeking . [118] Many Muslims who convert to Christianity face social and governmental persecution. [295][296] According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as of 2007 estimated that the fastest-growing religion of the world to be Islam (1.84%), high birth rates in as the reason for the growths. ", "Hundreds of asylum seekers in Finland converting from Islam to Christianity", "German churches see rise in baptisms for refugees", "Shklzen ou Giannis? Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. : New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World, Think religion is in decline? Protestantism is one of the most dynamic religious movements in the contemporary world. [516], The World Religion Database[517] (WRD) is a peer-reviewed database of international religious statistics based on research conducted at the Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs at Boston University. When it comes to negative energies, the Evil Eye is something you should watch out for. Sept. 11, 2001, marked the start of a new era for Muslims in the United States.. [24][25][26], Some religions proselytise vigorously (Christianity and Islam, for example), while others (such as Judaism and Sikhism) do not generally encourage conversions into their ranks. [306][335] Equally, Darren E. Sherkat questioned in Foreign Affairs whether some of the Muslim growth projections are accurate as they do not take into account the increasing number of non-religious Muslims. By 2030, Muslims are expected to make up 8% of Europe's population including an estimated 19million in the EU (3.8%),[339] including 13 million foreign-born Muslim immigrants. [65] According to one source, Protestants constituted respectively 2.5%, 2%, 0.5% of Latin Americans, Africans and Asians. Projections of future religious adherence are based on assumptions that trends, total fertility rates, life expectancy, political climate, conversion rates, secularization, etc. Learn about Muslims and Islam through four short lessons delivered to your inbox every other day. (+1) 202-857-8562 | Fax [511] The Zoroastrian Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has said that as many as 14,000 people in Iraqi Kurdistan have converted to Zoroastrianism recently, with community leaders repeating this and speculating that even more Zoroastrians in the region are practicing their faith secretly. The proportion of the global religiously unaffiliated living in North America will rise from 5% in 2010, to 9% in 2050. [59] In 2017 Christianity added nearly 50 million people due to factors such as birth rate and religious conversion. 1615 L St. NW, Suite 800Washington, DC 20036USA It is due to the fall of the fertility rate in many Muslim majority countries. [237] While on the other hand, in 2017, scholars Landon Schnabel and Sean Bock at Harvard University and Indiana University argued that while "Mainline Protestant" churches has declined in the United States since the late 1980s, but many of them do not leave Christianity, but rather convert to another Christian denomination, in particularly to evangelicalism. [280] The Lebanese Druze have the lowest fertility among all age groups after the Lebanese Christians. [348] This scenario (Chinese scenario) is based primarily on sensitivity tests.[26]. [306], According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 213 million babies were born to Muslim mothers and roughly 61 million Muslims died, meaning that the natural increase in the Muslim population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 152 million over this period",[38] and it added small net gains through religious conversion into Islam (420,000). Kalmykia is the only Buddhist majority region in Europe. Professor Eric Kaufmann, whose academic specialization is how demography affects irreligion/religion/politics, wrote in 2012: In my book, Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? [336][337][b] A survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 2017 found that conversion has a negative impact on the growth of the Muslim population in Europe, with roughly 160,000 more people leaving Islam than converting into Islam between 2010 and 2016. [70] On the other hand, Central and Eastern European countries did not experience a decline in the percentage of Christians, as the proportion of Christians in these countries have mostly been stable or even increasing. According to Pew Forum, Hindus are anticipated to continue to be concentrated primarily in the Indo-Pacific region in 2050. [331] Europe's Muslim population also has higher fertility (2.1) than other religious groups in the region, well above the regional average (1.6). [26] The growth of Islam from 2010 to 2020 has been estimated at 1.70%[3] due to high birthrates in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. It is the same mental and emotional struggle Cottee observed when researching his book. However, this does not gives us a direct comparison of suicide between countries - this share will also be influenced by the magnitude of other causes of death. [393] Additionally, while in principle Reform Judaism favors seeking new members for the faith, this position has not translated into active proselytism, instead of taking the form of an effort to reach out to non-Jewish spouses of intermarried couples. [3] A comprehensive religious forecast for 2050 by the Pew Research Center predicts that the global Muslim population will grow at a faster rate than the Christian population primarily due to the average younger age and higher fertility rate of Muslims. [388], According to the Pew Research Center published on 2010, religious conversion may have little impact on the Jewish population between 2010 and 2050; Jews are expected to lose 0.3 million adherents, between 2010 and 2050. Some of the tribes decided that as their loyalty to Islam had been primarily to Muhammad himself, his death . Werner Ustorf. This increase primarily reflects the rapid growth of Haredi and some Orthodox sectors, who are becoming a growing proportion of Jews. [201] According to Guinness, approximately 12.5 million more people who converted to Islam than people who converted to Christianity between 1990 and 2000. Though exact numbers are difficult to tally, observers estimate that as many as 20,000 Americans convert to Islam annually. Feb. 3, 2013. [64][66] Much of the growth has occurred after World War II, when decolonization of Africa and abolition of various restrictions against Protestants in Latin American countries occurred. [353][354][355][356][357], In 2010 Asia was home for (62%) of the world's Muslims, and about (20%) of the world's Muslims lived in the Middle East and North Africa, (16%) in Sub Saharan Africa, and 2% in Europe. [29], Buddhism is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, who was born in modern day Nepal and lived and taught in India in the 5th century BC. [82] According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, around 9% of Latin Americans were raised as Protestant, but nearly 19% now identify themselves as Protestants. [320] As per U.N.'s global population forecasts, as well as the Before it was banned in certain countries, the religion "hugely increased" in sub-Saharan Africa. [95][96][97], In 1900, there were only 8.7million[47] adherents of Christianity in Africa, while in 2010 there were 390 million. [386] Hugh Kennedy has also discussed the Jizyah issue and stated that Muslim governments discouraged conversion but were unable to prevent it. 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"They fired several shots in the air," a local said. To get an isolated comparison of suicide across the world we can use suicide rates - these measure the number of suicides per 100,000 . [104][105][106] In Brazil, the total number of Protestants jumped from 16.2% in 2000[107] to 22.2% in 2010 (for the first time, the percentage of Catholics in Brazil is less than 70%). [118] According to Blainey, this is due to several reasons, including the lack of ties of Evangelical Christianity with colonial powers in contrast to Roman Catholic and Mainline Protestant Churches, as well as the rising of Islamism, which lead some Muslims to look towards other religions such as Christianity through evangelical activity in the visual and audio media, as well as irreligion. [346] He further points out that Muslims are not a monolithic or cohesive group,[347] Most academics who have analysed the demographics dismiss the predictions that the EU will have Muslim majorities. The number of Muslims will equal the number of Christians around the . [394] Studies have shown that Haredi Jews population is rising rapidly due to the young age and very high fertility-rate,[395] especially in Israel. [342] Pew study also reveals that Muslims are younger than other Europeans. As per the Pew Research study, Muslim populations will grow in absolute number in all regions of the world between 2010 and 2050. Special administrative areas in China are Buddhist majority areas such as Macau, Tibet, and Hong Kong. The large number of Iranian American former Muslims is the result of a spike in immigration from Iran following the Iranian Revolution of 1978 and 1979 which included many secular Iranians seeking political refuge from the new theocratic regime. Atheism and agnosticism are not typically considered religions, but data about the prevalence of. [3] In 1990, 1.1billion people were Muslims, while in 2010, 1.6billion people were Muslims. [124] According to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2007, experts estimated that thousands of Muslims in the Western world converted to Christianity annually, but were not publicized due to fear of retribution. Those in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) nations and in the U.S. and Canada equally cite. [26], The American Religious Identification Survey gave nonreligious groups the largest gain in terms of absolute numbers: 14.3 million (8.4% of the population) to 29.4 million (14.1% of the population) for the period 19902001 in the U.S.[451][452] A 2012 study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reports, "The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. The clash of internal currents is wearing the movement down a year and a half after it regained power in Afghanistan. Changement de prnom et stratgies identitaires, entre culture d'origine et migration [Shklzen or Giannis? Credit: Kitti Kahotong / EyeEm. The share of the global unaffiliated population living in Europe is projected to grow from 12% in 2010 to 13% in 2050. Unless you are from a totalitarian country like China where the religion is intentionally put down. [238] And according to Eric Kaufmann from Harvard University and University of London, Christian fundamentalism is expanding in the United States. Although some national censuses ask people about their religion, they do not ask if they have converted to their presently espoused faith. [339][341][342] Between 2010 and 2015 the Muslim fertility rate in Europe was (2.1). Additionally, in some countries, legal and social consequences make conversion difficult. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. [382] Looking at suicide as a share of total death is one way to compare differences across the world. [26], The largest net gains for the religiously unaffiliated between 2010 and 2050 are expected in North America (+26 million), Europe (+24 million), Latin America (+6 million), and the Asia-Pacific region (4 million). (1927-2011): Missionary Statistician and Sociologist of Religion", "Barrett, David B. [461] The religiously unaffiliated are stationed largely in the Asia-Pacific region, where 76% resided in that region in 2010, and is expected to be 68% by 2050. [250] According to scholar Todd Hartch of Eastern Kentucky University, by 2005, around 6 million Africans converted to Christianity annually. Another study found that the number of people who will leave Islam is 9,400,000 and the number of converts to Islam is 12,620,000 so the net gain to Islam through conversion should be 3 million between 2010 and 2050, . [307] According to an earlier 2001 census, surveys found that there was an increase of 60,000 conversions to Islam in the United Kingdom. [318] With 3.1 children per woman, Muslims have higher fertility levels than the world's overall population between 2010 and 2015. Some seven years later, Muhammad and his many followers returned to Mecca and conquered the region. [408] Since 2005, the world's Jewish population has been growing modestly at a rate of around 0.78% (in 2013). [65], The significant growth of Christianity in non-Western countries led to regional distribution changes of Christians. They were sometimes effectively unable to prevent conversion but they were certainly not going to use force to achieve it. [462] The religion began in the region of Punjab in eastern Pakistan and Northwest India. 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[406], In 1939, the core Jewish population reached its historical peak of 17 million (0.8% of the global population). [454] In Australia, census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics give "no religion" the largest gains in absolute numbers over the 15 years from 1991 to 2006, from 2,948,888 (18.2% of the population that answered the question) to 3,706,555 (21.0% of the population that answered the question). [90] Some reports also show that the number of the Chinese Indonesians Christians have increased,[91][92] according to scholar Gavin W. Jones of Australian National University, "there has been a rapid growth in the number of Chinese Christians" in Indonesia, and "conversion of Chinese to Christianity accelerated in the 1960s, especially in East Java, and for Indonesia as a whole the proportion of Chinese who were Catholics rose from 2 percent in 1957 to 6 percent in 1969". [41][42], This growth reverses the rapid decline that Chinese traditional religion faced in the 20th century. [206] Converting to Christianity is growing among Muslims in the Albanian diaspora,[207][208] Iranian diaspora,[209] and Syrian diaspora,[210] and among Muslim Maghrebis in France,[211] and Kurds and Turks in Germany. [39] Comparing this with other surveys, evidence suggests that nowadays three-fifths to four-fifths of the Chinese believe in folk religion. High fertility is a major driver of projected Muslim population growth around the world and in particular regions. Especially in the rural areas, the speed and scale of its development are much faster and larger than is the case with Buddhism and Christianity [] in Zhejiang province, where Christianity is better established than elsewhere, temples of folk religion are usually twenty or even a hundred times as numerous as Christian church buildings. [403][404] In the United States, only about a third of children from intermarriages affiliate with Jewish religious practice. [31] According to scholars of religious demographics, there are between 488 million,[32] 495 million,[33] and 535 million[34] Buddhists in the world. [501][502] According to the National Commission for Minorities, there are a "variety of causes that are responsible for this steady decline in the population of the community", the most significant of which were childlessness and migration-[503] Demographic trends project that by the year 2020 the Parsis will number only 23,000. [239], According to study published by the missionary statistician[240] and professor David B. Barrett of Columbia University,[241][242] and professor of global Christianity, historian George Thomas Kurian,[243] and both are work on World Christian Encyclopedia, approximately 2.7million converting to Christianity annually from another religion, World Christian Encyclopedia also cited that Christianity ranks at first place in net gains through religious conversion. [338], It is often reported from various sources, including the German domestic intelligence service (Bundesnachrichtendienst), that Salafism is the fastest-growing Islamic movement in the world. [451][452] According to Anne Elizabeth Wynn of The Statesman, "The two most recent American Religious Identification Surveys declare Wicca, one form of paganism, as the fastest growing spiritual identification in America". [506] Concerns have been raised in recent years over the rapidly declining population of the Parsi community in India. 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[362][368][369][370] According to some scholars, the Jizya (poll tax) was the most important factor in the mass conversion to Islam, the tax paid by all non-Muslims (Dhimmis which translated means "protected persons") in Islamic empires[371][372][373][374] While other scholars oppose this belief, because the jizya was not of great value, and those who could not pay it were exempt from it. Hispanics and African-Americans, who were already converting well before 9/11, are the most common ethnic groups to convert. At . Conversions involving Islam sometimes look like a one-way street in the West. This scenario (Chinese scenario) is based primarily on sensitivity tests. [101] The main growth areas have been Asia and Africa, 39% and 32%, respectively, since 2000. In fact, a solid 55 percent of those who leave Islam stop identifying with a religion at all. More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. Since the countries' religious establishments also serve as. [230][231][232][233][234][235][236] The 2014 Religious Landscape Study finds a large majority (87.6%) of those who were raised as Christians in the United States still identify as such, while the rest who no longer identify as Christians mostly identify as religiously unaffiliated, and the number of those leaving Christianity in the United States is greater than the number of converts; however, the number of those convert to evangelical Christianity in the United States is greater than the number of those leaving that faith. "I've confirmed it with. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. [39] Further in detail, 12million people have passed some formal initiation into Taoism, or adhere to the official Chinese Taoist Association. [68] The study also suggested that by 2050, the global Christian population will change considerably. From the late 1920s to the late 1980s the religion was harassed and banned in the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc,[427][428][429] and then again from the 1970s into the 1990s across some countries in sub-Saharan Africa. [47][48] Christianity is reportedly the fastest growing religion in China with an average annual rate of 7% as of 2015. Reaching Iranians online Iran's census claims that 99.5% of the population are Muslim, a figure that hides the state's active hostility toward irreligiosity, conversion and unrecognised religious. [459] The decline is largely due to the advanced age (median age of 34) and low fertility among unaffiliated or Nonreligious (1.7 children per woman in the 20102015 period). The UN concluded that in the first eight months of 2014, at least 9,347 civilians had been killed and at least 17,386 wounded. [52] In 1900, Europe and the Americas were home to the vast majority of the world's Christians (93%). While all these deaths are not attributable to ISIS alone, ISIS is . Besides, Christianity has grown enormously in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. [213][214] Some scholars and media reports indicate that in the Middle East there been increasing numbers of conversions to Christianity among the Berbers,[215][216][201] Kurds,[217][218][201] Persians,[206] and Turks,[219] and among some religious minorities such as Alawites and Druze. The dream reflects your lonely state of mind or fear of trusting people around you. : Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century", "Barrett, David B. 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[199] Also according to the historian Daniel Pipes of Harvard University and University of Chicago,[200] and a researcher specializing in criticism of Islam, "reports of widespread conversions of Muslims to Christianity come from regions as disparate as Algeria, Albania, Syria, and Kurdistan",[133] in northern Iraq and Algeria, the conversions of Kurds and Berbers to Christianity are unusually high. Muslims take 2.5% out of their salaries and use the funds give to the needy. [399] Additionally, there is also a growing rate of conversion to Jews by Choice of gentiles who make the decision to head in the direction of becoming Jews. However, religiously unaffiliated is expected to grow slightly due to a decrease in the fertility rate among the religiously unaffiliated population. In 2010, the median age of Muslims throughout Europe was (32), eight years younger than the median for all Europeans (40). [202] According to scholar Ladan Boroumand "Iran today is witnessing the highest rate of Christianization in the world",[203] and according to scholar Shay Khatiri of Johns Hopkins University "Islam is the fastest shrinking religion in there [Iran], while Christianity is growing the fastest",[204] and in 2018 "up to half a million Iranians are Christian converts from Muslim families, and most of these Christians are evangelicals",[205] and he adds "recent estimates claim that the number might have climbed up to somewhere between 1 million and 3 million". [45], According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there are 2.2billion Christians around the world in 2010,[47] up from about 600 million in 1910. According to statistics in Canada, the number of "Nones" increased by about 60% between 1985 and 2004. If you believe in the evil eye, you may want to take some steps to protect yourself from this curse. Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Malaysia are said to have the fastest-growing Christian communities and the majority of the new believers are "upwardly mobile, urban, middle-class Chinese". [405] The result is that most countries in the Diaspora have steady or slightly declining religiously Jewish populations as Jews continue to assimilate into the countries in which they live. In the year 610 a 40 year old illiterate trader in the deserts of Arabia received a revelation that would change the world. Quantitative research is lacking, but he believes the European trend mirrors the American: data from the General Social Survey in the United States show that 32 percent of those raised Muslim no longer embrace Islam in adulthood, and 18 percent hold no religious identification.