Databases with Religious Statistics and Cultural Data
- AtoZ International Business This link opens in a new window
- eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window
- Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new window
- Statistical Abstract of the United States This link opens in a new window
- World Christian Database This link opens in a new window
Books with Religious Statistics
- American piety in 21st century: new insights to the depth and complexity of religion in the US : selected findings from The Baylor Religion Survey. byCall Number: EbookPublication Date: 2006
Barna Trends 2018 by Presenting a year's worth of their major research findings, the Barna Trends 2017 puts essential information at our fingertips by consolidating and interpreting the raw data behind cultural, religious, and political shifts. Writers, speakers, pastors, and leaders will find this collection of infographics, analysis, and expert commentary indispensable as they prepare to engage audiences, whether on paper, in person, or with pixels.
Call Number: BR526 .B385 2018The World's Religions in Figures by 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 techniques in interpreting data on religious adherence Considers data from religious communities, censuses, surveys, and scholarly research, along with several in-depth case studies on the global Muslim population, religion in Chin a, 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
Call Number: EbookPublication Date: 2013Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2017 by The 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.
Call Number: EbookPublication Date: 2017
Religious Statistics on the Web
Web sites with religious statistics
- opens new windowAdherents.com
- opens new windowAmerican Religion Data Archive (ARDA)
- opens new windowAmerican Religious Identification Survey
- opens new windowBarna Research Online
- opens new windowCenter for Applied Research in theApostolate
- opens new windowFaith Communities Today
- opens new windowHartford Institute for Religion Research
- opens new windowOperation World
- opens new windowPluralism Project (Harvard University)
- opens new windowReligious Congregations and Membership Study 2010 (Glenmary Home Missioners)
- opens new windowReligious Landscape Study (Pew Research Center)
- opens new windowU.S. Congregational Life Survey (USCLS)
- opens new windowWorld Factbook