1 / 13

Religious Statistics

Religious Statistics. The world, Canada and Waterloo Region. Religion in the World. Religion in the World. World Statistics for 2005 Christianity – 2.1 billion (over 1 billion RC ) Islam - 1.5 billion Hinduism - 900 million Buddhism - 376 million Indigenous - 300 million

ely
Download Presentation

Religious Statistics

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Religious Statistics The world, Canada and Waterloo Region

  2. Religion in the World

  3. Religion in the World • World Statistics for 2005 • Christianity – 2.1 billion (over 1 billion RC) • Islam - 1.5 billion • Hinduism - 900 million • Buddhism - 376 million • Indigenous - 300 million • Sikhism - 23 million • Judaism - 14 million

  4. Religion in Canada is changing • In Canada, the numbers of people who do not attend religious services is increasing. • Does this imply that Canadians are not spiritual or just not religious? • Almost 40% of adult Canadians who do not attend services say they do religious practices on their own. • 44% of Canadians rate religion as highly important to them, whether or not they attend services. • Stats Canada looks at religiosity using four measurements (affiliation, attendance, personal practices, importance of religion) and finds that Canadian’s religiosity depends on a few factors: • Age (people often become more religious with age) • Time in Canada (newer Canadians tend to be more religious) • Parents’ religion (same or different than each other) • Gender

  5. Why are some people religious? • Create a t-chart: Reasons people are religious Reasons people are not religious

  6. Why are some people religious? • According to some experts, people are religious because of: • being taught it in childhood • fear • desperation/need • tradition • social connections • comfort and reassurance • spiritual fulfillment/happiness • Accepting the teachings as true (rational) • Some people leave religion because of: • Dislike of structure, limitations, restrictions • Finding it irrelevant or out-dated • Disillusionment with the institutions • Finding group exclusive • Preferring alternative explanations • Finding practices, services dull

  7. Religious pluralism • Historically, Christianity has been the dominant religion in Canada while the gov’t protects the right to practice any religion. • As immigration patterns change and native-born Canadians become less religious, Christian numbers are decreasing. • Christian social justice programs and charities will need to be replaced with others

  8. What patterns do we see in Canada? • Median age? • Growth? • Decline? • How do these changes relate to immigration patterns? • What do you predict 10 years in the future?

  9. Data for Waterloo Region

More Related