[480] The Sikh population has the lowest gender balance in India, with only 903 women per 1,000 men according to the 2011 Indian census,[481] although the sex ratio at birth for Indian Sikhs has rapidly improved from 130 male births per 100 female births in 2001 to 110 male births per 100 female births in 2019-21, now only slightly above the average for India as a whole (108 male births per female births). Those who have left Islam are more likely to be immigrants from Iran (22%) than those who have not switched faiths (8%). 270 pp. [403][404] In the United States, only about a third of children from intermarriages affiliate with Jewish religious practice. [60] According to various scholars and sources Pentecostalism a Protestant Christian movement is the fastest growing religion in the world,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] this growth is primarily due to religious conversion. [375][376][377] (such as Christians under the Ottoman Empire's authority,[378][379] Hindus and Buddhists under regime of Muslim invaders,[369] Coptic Christians under administration of the Muslim Arabs,[372] Zoroastrians living under Islamic rule in ancient Persia,[380] and also with Jewish communities in the medieval Arab world[374]) while some scholars indicate that some Muslim rulers in India did not consistently collect the jizya (poll tax) from Dhimmis. According to other scholars, many converted for a whole host of reasons, the main statement of which was evangelization by Muslims, though there were several instances where some were pressured to convert owing to internal violence and friction between the Christian and Muslim communities, according to historian Philip Jenkins. [87] In Singapore, the percentage of Christians among Singaporeans increased from 12.7%, in 1990, to 17.5%, in 2010. By 2050, 38% of the world's Christians will live in the Sub-Saharan Africa, followed by 23% in Latin America and the Caribbean, 16% in Europe, 13% in Asia and the Pacific and 10% of the world's Christians will live in North America. January 26, 2018 The share of Americans who leave Islam is offset by those who become Muslim By Besheer Mohamed and Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac Like Americans in many other religious groups, a substantial share of adults who were raised Muslim no longer identify as members of the faith. [83], The US Department of State estimated in 2005 that Protestants in Vietnam may have grown by 600% over the previous 10 years. [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). [280] The Lebanese Druze have the lowest fertility among all age groups after the Lebanese Christians. [385] However, the poll tax known as Jizyah may have played a part in converting people over to Islam but as Britannica notes "The rate of taxation and methods of collection varied greatly from province to province and were greatly influenced by local pre-Islamic customs" and there were even cases when Muslims had the tax levied against them, on top of Zakat. 14/Mar/2021. For example, individuals can receive a capital punishment if they openly leave Islam in some Muslim countries. In surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, Pew found that 65 percent of Americans described themselves as Christian, a 12 percent decline over the past decade. 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. [246] According to a study by a scholar Fenggang Yang from Purdue University, Christianity is "spreading among the Chinese of South-East Asia", and "Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity is growing more quickly in China",[247] also according to him, more than half of them have university degrees. In Latin America and Caribbean Muslim population will stay 0.1% by 2050. New Delhi: "I have hated Muslims most of my life and today I proudly call myself one," says Siddharth, who assumed the name Shadab when he converted to Islam in 2012. 1615 L St. NW, Suite 800Washington, DC 20036USA [396], The overall growth rate of Jews in Israel is 1.7% annually. Toleransi yang mengundang murka Allah [486][479] By 2050, according to Pew research center based on growth rate of current Sikh population between (2001-2011), India will have 27,129,086 Sikhs by half-century which will be more than that of any country including the Western world. The goal is to secure virginal brides rather than to seek new converts to Islam. For example, federal legislation prohibits and criminalizes non-Muslims for preaching or converting Muslims into their religion, even though the reverse is allowed. Besides, the Muslim population in sub-Saharan Africa is forecast to grow from about 250million in 2010 to nearly 670million in 2050 which is more than double. Among those who have converted to Islam, a majority come from a Christian background. Table 4.1: Police officer leavers, by route of exit, years ending 31 March . [512][513][514] However, this has not been confirmed by independent sources. But what does Hajj constitute and why is it so. The birth rate is expected to be the main factor in the growth of Christianity. The results gave a figure of 1,400 conversions in the capital in the past 12 months which, when. [122] Many people who convert to Christianity face persecution. Islam will grow faster than any other religion over the next 40 years. [299] From 1990 to 2010, the global Muslim population increased at an average annual rate of 2.2%. [310] According to The New York Times, an estimated 25% of American Muslims are converts,[311] these converts are mostly African American. [391], Orthodox and Conservative Judaism discourage proselytism to non-Jews,[392] but many Jewish groups have tried to reach out to the assimilated Jewish communities of the Diaspora in order for them to reconnect to their Jewish roots. Comparing its amount to the obligatory zakah which an ex-dhimmi should give to the Muslim state in case he converts to Islam dismisses the claim that its aim was forced conversions to Islam. [498] Recent estimates place the current number of Zoroastrians at around 110,000120,000,[499] at most with the majority living in India, Iran, and North America; their number has been thought to be declining. (RNS) It's bad news for organized religion: A majority of the religiously unaffiliated the so-called "nones" say they fell away from faith not because of any . [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). [400], Rates of interreligious marriage vary widely: In the United States, it is just under 50percent,[401] in the United Kingdom, around 53percent; in France; around 30percent,[402] and in Australia and Mexico, as low as 10percent. [88] According to scholar Michael Nai-Chiu Poon of University of Toronto conversion to Christianity is increasing among Chinese Singaporeans. [408] Since 2005, the world's Jewish population has been growing modestly at a rate of around 0.78% (in 2013). The epicentre of these trends will be in immigration gateway cities like New York (a third white), Amsterdam (half Dutch), Los Angeles (28% white), and London, 45% white British. Some faiths grow exponentially at first (especially, for example, along trade routes[27] In 2010, the median age of Muslims throughout Europe was (32), eight years younger than the median for all Europeans (40). The Parsis will then cease to be called a community and will be labeled a 'tribe'. Ten years ago, Muhammad Syed became an ex-Muslim. To many Muslims, it may be the word of God, but in thinking this, they deny the fact that faith is a lived experience and the faith that they follow has been shaped by human lives who have gone before. [319] A new study of Population Reference Bureau by demographers Charles Westoff and Tomas Frejka suggests that the fertility gap between Muslims and non-Muslims is shrinking and although the Muslim immigrants do have more children than other Europeans their fertility tends to decline over time, often faster than among non-Muslims. In sociology, desecularization is the proliferation or growth of religion, most commonly after a period of previous secularization. But there are also states and counties with far fewer Muslims. "The Lost History of Christianity." [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. After the death of Muhammad in 632 CE, the young Muslim federation came under strain. They were sometimes effectively unable to prevent conversion but they were certainly not going to use force to achieve it. According to the Pew Research Center, the Muslim population in Europe (excluding Turkey) was about 30 million in 1990, and 44 million in 2010; the Muslim share of the population increased from 4.1% in 1990 to 6% in 2010. Based on the data from 49 Muslim-majority countries and territories, he found that Muslims' birth rate has significantly dropped for 41% between 1975 and 1980 to 200510 while the global population decline was 33% during that period. Only 4.7% of the Parsi community are under 6 years of age, which translates to 7 births per year per 1,000 individuals. [26] According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, over the next four decades the number of Jews around the world is expected to increase from 14.2 million in 2015 to 16.3 million in 2060. [60] Evangelical Christian denominations also are among the fastest-growing denominations in some Catholic Christian countries, such as Brazil and France (France going from 2% to 3% of the population). ", most of them are women and African-Americans. [270] About 26.3% of the Israeli Druze population are under 14 years old and about 6.1% of the Israeli Druze are 65 years and over. [390] Israel is the only country with a Jewish population that is consistently growing through natural population growth and extensive immigration, although the Jewish populations of other countries, in Europe and North America, have recently increased through immigration. Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. ", "The Zoroastrians who remained in Persia (modern Iran) after the ArabMuslim conquest (7th century CE) had a long history as outcasts. The growth of Muslims is also expected in the Middle East-North Africa region, It is projected to increase from about 300 million in 2010 to more than 550million in 2050. [270] The fertility rate for Israeli Druze in 2017 is 2.1 children per woman, while the fertility rate among Jewish women (3.2) and Muslim women (3.4) and the fertility rate among Israeli Christian women (1.9). While in prison for robbery from 1946 to 1952, he underwent a conversion that eventually led him to join the Nation of Islam, an African American movement that combined elements of Islam with Black nationalism. [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. But many people, disgusted by the role that some priests and nuns played in the killing frenzy, have shunned organized religion altogether, and many more have turned to Islam. From 2000-2010, only a total of 135 out of 686 applications by Muslims seeking . [330], While the total Fertility Rate of Muslims in North America is 2.7 children per woman in the 2010 to 2015 period, well above the regional average (2.0) and the replacement level (2.1). [223][224], Religious conversions are projected to have a "modest impact on changes in the religious groups including Christian population" between 2010 and 2050;[225] and may negatively affect the growth of Christian population and it's share of the world's populations "slightly". [456][457] In New Zealand, 39% of the population are irreligious, making it the country with the largest irreligious population percentage in the Oceania region. [47] In South Africa, Pentecostalism has grown from 0.2%, in 1951, to 7.6%, in 2001. [268], The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) survey estimated that between 1990 and 2001 the number of self-identifying deists grew from 6,000 to 49,000, representing about 0.02% of the US population at the time.[269]. Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World, Size & Demographic Characteristics of Religious Groups, Muslims are a growing presence in U.S., but still face negative views from the public, Republicans account for a small but steady share of U.S. Muslims, The share of Americans who leave Islam is offset by those who become Muslim, New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow, 60% of Americans Would Be Uncomfortable With Provider Relying on AI in Their Own Health Care, Gender pay gap in U.S. hasnt changed much in two decades. It is published by Brill and is the most comprehensive database of religious demographics available to scholars, providing data for all of the world's countries. [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. [382] GUWAHATI: At a time when religious conversion has emerged as one of the controversial topics, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) national general . Schnabel and Bock argued also that evangelicalism and Conservative Christianity has persisted and expanded in the United States. In recent years, "Europe has experienced a record influx of asylum seekers fleeing from Syria and predominantly Muslim . 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As teenagers and 20-somethings seek to earn a. The growth of a religion can interact with factors such as persecution, entrenched rival religions (such as established religions), and religious market saturation. [35] The decline is due to several factors such as the low fertility level among Buddhists (1.6 children per woman),[36] and the old age (median age of 34), compared to the overall population. [433][434][435][436] Meanwhile in other times or places the religion has experienced surges in growth. In the aftermath of the Cold War, one could say that Europe needed a new archetypal enemy, and research shows that Muslim immigrants gradually took on that status. In fact, about half of all converts to Islam (53%) identified as Protestant before converting; another 20% were Catholic. [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. In fact, a solid 55 percent of those who leave Islam stop identifying with a religion at all. Although some national censuses ask people about their religion, they do not ask if they have converted to their presently espoused faith. Australian Bureau of Statistics (21 June 2012). Druzites or Al-Muwaidn are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group; the number of Druzites worldwide is between 800,000 and one million, with the vast majority residing in the Levant. Christianity is expected to have the largest net loss of followers between 2010 and 2050 in North America (-28 million), Europe (-24 million), Latin America and the Caribbean (-9.5 million), sub-Saharan Africa (-3 million), and Asia-Pacific (2.4 million). 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. [463] Today, India is home to the largest Sikh population with 1.7% of its population, or about 20 million people identifying as Sikh. By actually counting the number of people who showed up at representative sample of churches, two researchers, Kirk Hadaway and Penny Marler found that only 20.4 percent of the population, or half the Gallup figure, attended church each weekend. [73] According to scholar Barry John Tolmay of University of Pretoria there are increasing signs of a Christian revival in Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria. On the other hand, the fertility rate in Europe as a whole was (1.6). And roughly one-in-five (19%) volunteered that they had no religion before converting to Islam, while smaller shares switched from Orthodox Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism or some other religion. [38] As for religious conversion, the religiously unaffiliated is expected to have the largest net gains through religious conversion between 2010 and 2050, notably on Europe and Americas. (+1) 202-419-4300 | Main [65] According to one source, Protestants constituted respectively 2.5%, 2%, 0.5% of Latin Americans, Africans and Asians. [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. or for reasons of social prestige[28]), The main reason for this is the social and legal repercussions associated with leaving Islam in many Muslim majority countries, up to and including the death penalty for apostasy. By contrast, during the same time period, the religiously unaffiliated category went from 17 percent in 2009 to 26 percent a decade later. [47] It is expected that by 2025 there will be 600million Christians in Africa. 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[309] Studies estimated about 30,000 converting to Islam annually in the United States. The story we normally hear is of an Islam growing from strength to strength, and how for all the phobia that exists around it, it remains the fastest growing religion with 1.6 billion followers across the world and acquiring new converts on an almost daily basis. A total of 144 persons adopted Islam. At . [59] In 2017 Christianity added nearly 50 million people due to factors such as birth rate and religious conversion. [381] Since non-Muslims are not required to pay Zakat nor entitled to benefit from it, they had to support their own poor and in addition they had to pay Jizya if they wanted the same protections the Muslims received. [508][509][510], The number of Kurdish Zoroastrians, along with those of non-ethnic converts, has been estimated differently. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. "People died in my . "Five Centuries After Reformation, Catholic-Protestant Divide in Western Europe Has Faded," Pew Research Center, 31 August 2017, 5/11, Garrison, David; 2014; "A Wind in the House of Islam: How God Is Drawing Muslims Around The World To Faith in Jesus Christ"; WIGTake Resources. ), According to Pew Research Center survey in 2012, religiously unaffiliated (include agnostic and atheist) make up about 18.2% of Europe's population,[450] and they make up the majority of the population in only two European countries: Czech Republic (76%) and Estonia (60%). Famed new believers like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Keith Ellison seem to get all the attentionalong with flamboyant. [450] According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 68 million babies were born to religiously unaffiliated mothers and roughly 42 million religiously unaffiliated died, meaning that the natural increase in the religiously unaffiliated population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 26 million over this period". [46], The Chinese folk religion is a "diffused religion" rather than "institutional". [349] The prospect of a homogenous Muslim community per se, or a Muslim majority in Europe is however out of the question. The same 2017 survey asked converts from Islam to explain, in their own words, their reasons for leaving the faith. [226][227] However, these forecasts lack reliable data on religious conversion in China, but according to media reports and expert assessments, it is possible that the rapid growth of Christianity in China may maintain, or even increase, the current numerical advantage of Christianity as the largest religion in the world. [491], Zoroastrianism was founded during the early Persian Empire in the 6th century BCE by Zarathustra. [327] In Europe Muslim population will be nearly double (from 5.9% to 10.2%). [320] As per U.N.'s global population forecasts, as well as the By. [54] By 2050, Christianity is expected to remain the majority of population and the largest religious group in Latin America and Caribbean (89%),[55] North America (66%),[56] Europe (65.2%)[57] and Sub Saharan Africa (59%). . "[302] People switching their religions will likely have no effect on the growth of the Muslim population,[6] as the number of people who convert to Islam is roughly similar to those who leave Islam.
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