Statistics

Worldwide Spiritual Demography

New Details on Globe Religions: Presenting the Worldwide Spiritual Demography Project

The educational field of religious demography is not developed the Globe Religious Data resource WCD is the most comprehensive resource but its concentrate and technique have been instructed toward calculating religious sticking with in 2008 the Worldwide Spiritual Demography IRD venture was released for the purpose of offering comprehensive religious group information the IRD venture is gathering collating and assessing main and secondary resource content on religious demography for all significant belief systems in every nation around the globe.The IRD venture is currently publishing its conclusions in an on the internet database World Religion Data resource or WRD and later on will post its conclusion in print.

The IRD venture is centered at the Institution on Lifestyle Religion and Globe Matters CURA at Birkenstock Celtics School.The details mainly come from a research of the two biggest selections of religious group data. This Middle has info on Religious variations as well as numerous records relevant to other belief systems the Middle has released much of this data relevant to Christianity in the Globe Religious Encyclopedia Oxford School Press 2001 and on the internet in the Globe Religious Data resource Brill educational marketers 2007 but has info on other belief systems that has not been released.

The Pew Community forum on Religion & Public Life a venture of the Pew Research Middle in California DC has gathered age, study and other main resource content on religious demography for many nations and is currently developing specific adherent reports for the nations of African American.The Pew Community forum is publishing some of this content on the internet with programs to greatly increase its on the internet religious group research.

The IRD venture at CURA provides a location for the cross-validation of religious demography resources reunite inconsistent resources and determine the best resources for nations where data are scarce the venture has the potential to compare cross-tabulated adherent data from group and health surveys, age data and other public science resources with other group information such as age stage of religious contribution and so forth however study and age data are lacking for many nations around the globe to make reports for nations where such details are missing the IRD has the potential to assess the CSGC’s unparalleled collection of religious account data as well as draw on its comprehensive ethno linguistic data which provides an alternative method to calculate the size of religious groups in nations for which religious adherent data are not available.Main guidelines of the venture include performing supportive research and publishing the research.

Research

Reconcile age and public study content with clearly found data from ethnographic and other data resources to obtain best reports upgrading a database that allows for past present and upcoming forecasts 1900, 1970, 2010, 2025 and 2100 for the 72 significant religious organization ‘schools’ for the globe's nations 238 regions 3,000 and places 5,000. Write methodological notices and articles relevant to database reports hold colloquial and encourage nation and group experts to offer reviews.

Database Publication

The Globe Religion Data resource (WRD) is released by Brill as a fee for access website designed for scientists and promoted to collections in the US and overseas.

Differentiation of the WRD from Globe Religious Data resource (WCD)

The WRD is substantively unique from the WCD concentrating on clearly seeking reports of all belief systems (not mainly Christianity as is the concentrate of the WCD) and offering a clear technique for fixing variations between religious organization reports and public medical reports. The WRD is designed to offer the educational community with the most comprehensive and current info on religious demography on all significant belief.

Feedback on the IRD project

The venture programs to offer group details on Religious Islamic Buddhist Hindu Judaism and other religious customs and sub traditions.The venture will also enable users to assess statements created by various companies created about religious demography. Feedback on data and technique is welcome.