how many religions are in the world today?
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you will not find a correct answer, because there are so many denominations and tribes that are undescovered with their religions
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Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Taoists, Pagans, Muslims, Hindus.... its pretty universal
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Whenever you want to know demographics of religions, try www.adherents.com first. They give sources for their information so be sure to look at the footnotes to find out the year the information was gathered. They put number of Christians in the U.S. at 217,872,000 as of 2001.
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84% according to Adherents.com: http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Nonsense.  Christianity, as a collective, is the world's largest religion.
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There are religions all over the world. People need to believe in something & they need to be controlled.\nIt is the same with all religions.
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1.  Christianity: 2.1 billion\n   2. Islam: 1.3 billion\n   3. Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion\n   4. Hinduism: 900 million\n   5. Chinese traditional religion: 394 million\n   6. Buddhism: 376 million\n   7. primal-indigenous: 300 million\n   8. African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million\n   9. Sikhism: 23 million\n  10. Juche: 19 million\n  11. Spiritism: 15 million\n  12. Judaism: 14 million\n  13. Baha'i: 7 million\n  14. Jainism: 4.2 million\n  15. Shinto: 4 million\n  16. Cao Dai: 4 million\n  17. Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million\n  18. Tenrikyo: 2 million\n  19. Neo-Paganism: 1 million\n  20. Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand\n  21. Rastafarianism: 600 thousand\n  22. Scientology: 500 thousand\n\nAnddespite what the muslimssay, they are way behind and will NEVER catch upto the catholics
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Lots. A whole lot. Very very many. Hinduism alone recognizes a few million--they may actually have one of the more accurate numbers, as Hinduism recognizes gods of other religions as well.
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Wow - there are tens of thousands. Nobody could ever hope to get them all into one posting, it would take days to write.\n\nThe basic breakdown:\n\nANCIENT ECCLESIA:\n\n- Eastern Orthodox\n- Coptic Church\n- Catholic Church\n- Armenian Church\n\nVIA MEDIA:\n- Anglican/Episcopal Church\n\nPROTESTANT:\n- Lutheran\n- Methodist\n- Prebyterian\n- Quaker\n\nEVANGELICAL:\n- Baptist\n- Free churches\n\nCHARISMATIC:\n- Pentecostal\n\nOTHER:\n- Universalist unitarians\n- Mormons (LDS)\n- Jehovah's witnesses\n- Unitarian Universalists\n- Oneness Pentecostal\n- Seventh Day Adventists
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Um hard to find but here's some sites with different type of statistics:\nthis has more of statistics how many in each faith\nhttp://www.adherents.com/index.html\nthis is about the bible, but not \nhttp://www.christianitytoday.com/biblestudies/areas/biblestudies/articles/cr-2003-004-3.42.html\n\num but that's all I could really find... sorry- hope it helps\n\nGod Bless
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Depends on who you ask or where you look. Here are 2 different articles with different data.\n\n\n\nThere are more new Christians added to the world population than any other religion on earth every day. This data makes the entire discussion about "rates of growth" irrelevant. The fact is today, that Christianity is the fastest growing religion on this most critical basis. This may change, but today, in 2004 AD, Christians take the prize for being the fastest growing religion. \nOn none of the 6 continents are Muslims the fastest growing religion. \nThat Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world is pure myth at best and at worst a deliberate deception of solid statistical facts.\n\n\n[edit] Buddhism\nAverage annual growth of 16% / 31,600 for the period 1996 to 2001 (200,000→358,000 - Australian data) [1] \n\n[edit] Falun Gong\nno reliable data available - established in 1992, estimates for 1999 range from 2 million [2] to 100 million [3] \n\n[edit] Christianity\nThe U.S. Center for World Mission claimed a growth rate of 2.3% for the period 1970 to 1996, (slightly higher than the world population growth rate at the time). This increased the percentage Christians from 33.7% to 33.9%. \nChristianity is estimated to receive 2,500,000 converts a year.[1] \n\n[edit] Islam\nAverage annual growth of 5% / 10,228,750 claimed for the period of 1935 to 1983 (209,020,000→700,000,000) [4] but note that this value is unreliable as these rates are calculated from two separate sources, which may have used different counting rules. \nUnited Nations' survey showed that between 1989 and 1998, Europe's Muslim population grew by more than 100 percent. Today, about 13 million Muslims live in Western Europe: 3.9 million in Germany, 3.3 million in Britain, 7.5 million in France, and the rest in other countries. [5]. Global warming may accelerate Muslim migration to Europe. [6] \nOntario Consultants on Religious Tolerance have a claim of 2.9% per year \nIt is estimated to receive 865,000 converts a year.[2] \nIn 2006 countries with a Muslim majority have an average population growth rate of 1.8% per year (when weighted by percentage Muslim and population size)[7]. This compares with a world population growth rate of 1.12% per year. [8] \n\n[edit] Non-Religious\nAverage annual growth of 10% / 1,372,727 for the period 1990 to 2001 (14,300,000→29,400,000 - U.S. data) [9],[10] \n\n[edit] Wicca\nAverage annual growth of 143% / 11,454 for the period 1990 to 2001 (8,000→134,000 - U.S. data / similar for Canada & Australia) [9],[10]
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Islam at this time is the fastest growing religion in the world.
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World population:  6 505 834 462  \n\nChristianity: 2.1 billion\n\nIslam: 1.3 billion\n\nSecular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion\n\nHinduism: 900 million\n\nChinese traditional religion: 394 million\n\nBuddhism: 376 million\n\nprimal-indigenous: 300 million\n\nAfrican Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million\n\nSikhism: 23 million\n\nJuche: 19 million\n\nSpiritism: 15 million\n\nJudaism: 14 million\n\nBaha'i: 7 million\n\nJainism: 4.2 million\n\nShinto: 4 million\n\nCao Dai: 4 million\n\nZoroastrianism: 2.6 million\n\nTenrikyo: 2 million\n\nNeo-Paganism: 1 million\n\nUnitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand\n\nRastafarianism: 600 thousand\n\nScientology: 500 thousand
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I have no idea what you mean.\nIf you mean that there are many religions, yes.\nIf you mean there is more of one religion in one area and more of another in another area, yes.
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Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are the only three religions that only a a singular "god" that is male. All other religions have multiple "gods" and/or female "gods".
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According to many of the research and survey websites that collect data on the world's religions, the fastest growing is Islam with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Neopaganism right behind it. The data, as mentioned on the websites, is not conclusive, it merely is data collected by religious groups themselves and then compiled. Thus, the numbers could be inflated. But so far the numbers from year to year show a steady increase in Islam, a decline in Christianity, and Hinduism, Buddhism and Neopaganism also rising very quickly in numbers of proclaimed adherents.
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Atheist - about 2 to 3 %. Agnostic, 11 to 12%. Type "world religion population" into Yahoo search engine. Pretty much evey site agrees with these figures. One link can be found below.