The growth of a religion can interact with factors such as persecution, entrenched rival religions (such as established religions), and religious market saturation. When it comes to negative energies, the Evil Eye is something you should watch out for. [51], By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3billion. [487], The American Religious Identification Survey gives Wicca an average annual growth of 143% for the period 1990 to 2001 (from 8,000 to 134,000 U.S. data / similar for Canada & Australia). [320] As per U.N.'s global population forecasts, as well as the ", "Sikhs fastest-growing minority in NZ: Census", "There could be more Sikhs in the future maybe", "Our year-long exploration of religions ends with Unitarianian Universalism and paganism", "PRLog (Press Release) "Wicca"- The Fastest Growing Belief System in the World Today! [358], There exist different views among scholars about the spread of Islam. [399] Additionally, there is also a growing rate of conversion to Jews by Choice of gentiles who make the decision to head in the direction of becoming Jews. [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. 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. (Ms Lewthwaite reportedly had a close relationship with Muslim neighbours during her youth.) [95][96][97], In 1900, there were only 8.7million[47] adherents of Christianity in Africa, while in 2010 there were 390 million. [433][434][435][436] Meanwhile in other times or places the religion has experienced surges in growth. [360] In North America, it will grow 1% to 2%. The large number of Iranian American former Muslims is the result of a spike in immigration from Iran following the Iranian Revolution of 1978 and 1979 which included many secular Iranians seeking political refuge from the new theocratic regime. 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. According to statistics in Canada, the number of "Nones" increased by about 60% between 1985 and 2004. [125] Indonesia is home to the largest Christian community made up of converts from their former Islamic faith; according to various sources, since the mid and late 1960s, between two million to 2.5 million Muslims converted to Christianity. [38] in 2018 a new data from the Gordon Theological Seminary shows that, for the first time ever, more number of Christians live in Africa than on any other single continent:[58] "The results show Africa on top with 631 million Christian residents, Latin America in 2nd place with 601 million Christians, and Europe in 3rd place with 571 million Christians". 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. "[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. [26] The growth of Islam from 2010 to 2020 has been estimated at 1.70%[3] due to high birthrates in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Muslim women's low educational attainment is a likely factor; demographers find that higher educational attainment among women is tied to lower fertility rates". In Latin America and Caribbean Muslim population will stay 0.1% by 2050. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, between 1965 and 1985 about 2.5million Indonesians converted from Islam to Christianity. But coming up with an answer is not easy, in part because the U.S. Census Bureau does not ask questions about religion, meaning there is no official government count of the U.S. Muslim population. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. The Evil Eye is a curse that is believed to be cast by someone who has envy or jealousy towards another person. The curse is said to cause misfortune or harm to the person that it is directed at. [495][496] From the 10th century onwards,[497] Zoroastrians emigrated to Gujarat, India where they found asylum from unjust persecutions and since then are called Parsi, since Indians called Persia Faras and hence named them Parsi. After the death of Muhammad in 632 CE, the young Muslim federation came under strain. Many Moriscos were suspected of practicing Islam in secret . Before it was banned in certain countries, the religion "hugely increased" in sub-Saharan Africa. [43], According to scholars Miikka Ruokanen and Paulos Huang of University of Helsinki, the rebirth of traditional religion in China is faster and larger than the spread of other religions in the country, such as Buddhism and Christianity:[44]. [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). Special administrative areas in China are Buddhist majority areas such as Macau, Tibet, and Hong Kong. Islam is expected to gain 3.2 million followers, while Buddhists and Jews are expected to lose 2.9 million and 0.3 million adherents, respectively. When we first conducted a study of Muslim Americans in 2007, we estimated that there were 2.35 million Muslims of all ages (including 1.5 million adults) in the U.S. By 2011, the number of Muslims had grown to 2.75 million (including 1.8 million adults). Although they purchased some toleration by paying the jizya (poll tax), not abolished until 1882, they were treated as an inferior race, had to wear distinctive garb, and were not allowed to ride horses or bear arms. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. [342] Pew study also reveals that Muslims are younger than other Europeans. [70] According to the same study, a large majority of those who raised as Christians (83%) in Western Europe, still identified themselves as Christians today. To get an isolated comparison of suicide across the world we can use suicide rates - these measure the number of suicides per 100,000 . About a quarter of adults who were raised Muslim (23%) no longer identify as members of the faith, roughly on par with the share of Americans who were raised Christian and no longer identify with Christianity (22%), according to a new analysis of the 2014 Religious Landscape Study. "The majority of ex-Muslims I interviewed said they were profoundly lonely and isolated, and they related. He did not even appear in public when the Taliban regained power two decades later. 1615 L St. NW, Suite 800Washington, DC 20036USA On March 12, 1964, impelled by internal jealousy within the Nation of Islam and revelations of Elijah Muhammad's sexual immorality, Malcolm left the Nation of Islam with the intention of starting his own organization: I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. 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[274][275] The Druze faith do not accept converts to their faith, nor practice proselytism. ", "Hundreds of asylum seekers in Finland converting from Islam to Christianity", "German churches see rise in baptisms for refugees", "Shklzen ou Giannis? [386] Hugh Kennedy has also discussed the Jizyah issue and stated that Muslim governments discouraged conversion but were unable to prevent it. Australian Bureau of Statistics (21 June 2012). But the fact that the shares of people who enter and leave Islam are roughly equal suggests that conversions to and from the faith are having little impact on the groups overall growth. More recently (20002010), the countries with highest growth rates are Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and some African countries. 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. [117], According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey from the University of Melbourne, since the 1960s there has been a substantial increase in the number of conversions from Islam to Christianity, mostly to the Evangelical and Pentecostal forms. [493] It served as the state religion of the ancient Iranian empires for more than a millennium, from around 600 BCE to 650 CE, but declined from the 7th century onwards following the Muslim conquest of Persia of 633654. "They fired several shots in the air," a local said. Likewise, certain states, such asNew Jersey, are home to two or three times as many Muslim adults per capita as the national average. There wereclear reasons why Muslim governments would not want to encourage conversion to Islam. According to Pew Research Center, in the United States, the percentage of people converting to Islam is almost the same as the people leaving Islam ( about 23%). [312] According to The Huffington Post, "observers estimate that as many as 20,000 Americans convert to Islam annually. 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[344], The Pew Research Center notes that "the data that we have isn't pointing in the direction of 'Eurabia' at all",[345] and predicts that the percentage of Muslims is estimated to rise to 8% in 2030, due to immigration and above-average birth rates. [195], Resurgent Islam is one of the most dynamic religious movements in the contemporary world. [336][337][b] A survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 2017 found that conversion has a negative impact on the growth of the Muslim population in Europe, with roughly 160,000 more people leaving Islam than converting into Islam between 2010 and 2016. However, this does not gives us a direct comparison of suicide between countries - this share will also be influenced by the magnitude of other causes of death. [280] The Lebanese Druze have the lowest fertility among all age groups after the Lebanese Christians. Quantitative research is lacking, but he believes the European trend mirrors the American: data from the General Social Survey in the United States show that 32 percent of those raised Muslim no longer embrace Islam in adulthood, and 18 percent hold no religious identification. [65], The significant growth of Christianity in non-Western countries led to regional distribution changes of Christians. [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. [393] As a result of the efforts by these and other Jewish groups over the past 25 years, there has been a trend (known as the Baal teshuva movement) for secular Jews to become more religiously observant, though the demographic implications of the trend are unknown. [206] Converting to Christianity is growing among Muslims in the Albanian diaspora,[207][208] Iranian diaspora,[209] and Syrian diaspora,[210] and among Muslim Maghrebis in France,[211] and Kurds and Turks in Germany. Religious conversions havent had a large impact on the size of the U.S. Muslim population, largely because about as many Americans convert to Islam as leave the faith. [61] According to scholar Keith Smith of Georgia State University "many scholars claim that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious phenomenon in human history",[15] and according to scholar Peter L. Berger of Boston University "the spread of Pentecostal Christianity may be the fastest growing movement in the history of religion". The goal is to secure virginal brides rather than to seek new converts to Islam. [361], In 2010 Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria was home for (47.8%) of the world's Muslims. For example, federal legislation prohibits and criminalizes non-Muslims for preaching or converting Muslims into their religion, even though the reverse is allowed. [350] Eric Kaufman of University of London denied the claims of Eurabia. [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. Though exact numbers are difficult to tally, observers estimate that as many as 20,000 Americans convert to Islam annually. How many Muslims leave Islam in India? : Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century", "Barrett, David B. [26], According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 32 million babies were born to Buddhist mothers and roughly 20 million Buddhists died, meaning that the natural increase in the Buddhists population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 12 million over this period". The majority of post-9/11 converts are women, according to experts. New York: Oxford University Press. It's also hard to kiss. According to Arvind Sharma, Hinduism "is typically quite comfortable with multiple religious participation, multiple religious affiliations, and even with multiple religious identities. (+1) 202-419-4372 | Media Inquiries. Muslims who leave the faith often face abuse and violence - but a grassroots group that's touring American colleges is trying to help. Some seven years later, Muhammad and his many followers returned to Mecca and conquered the region. 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. [455] According to INEGI, in Mexico, the number of atheists grows annually by 5.2%, while the number of Catholics grows by 1.7%. Hibatullah Akhundzada praised his movement's advance in every corner of the country and celebrated the historic seizure of Kabul in August 2021 as one more. The Taliban's armed uprising against . And roughly one-in-five cited a reason specific to their experience with Islam, such as being raised Muslim but never connecting with the faith (9%) or disagreeing with the teachings (7%) of Islam. [63][64][65][66] Since 1900, due primarily to conversion, Protestantism has spread rapidly in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America. [45], According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there are 2.2billion Christians around the world in 2010,[47] up from about 600 million in 1910. High fertility is a major driver of projected Muslim population growth around the world and in particular regions. [284] 79.8% of India's population is Hindu, accounting for about 90% of Hindus worldwide. Uwe Siemon-Netto confirmed in 2016 that "a global phenomenon is underway: Muslims are converting to various Christian denominations in droves in every part of the world." Indeed, Christian. [60] The Vatican's 2008 yearbook of statistics revealed that for the first time, Islam has outnumbered the Roman Catholics globally. [290][291] According to 2011 census, Hinduism has become the fastest-growing religion in Australia since 2006[292] due to migration from India and Fiji. [398], There is also a trend of Orthodox movements reaching out to secular Jews in order to give them a stronger Jewish identity so there is less chance of intermarriage. [501][502] According to the National Commission for Minorities, there are a "variety of causes that are responsible for this steady decline in the population of the community", the most significant of which were childlessness and migration-[503] Demographic trends project that by the year 2020 the Parsis will number only 23,000. It is due to the fall of the fertility rate in many Muslim majority countries. Low fertility rates and aging populations in countries such as China, Thailand and Japan are the main demographic reasons for the expected shrinkage in the Buddhist population in the years ahead". But while the share of American Muslim adults who are converts to Islam also is about one-quarter (23%), a much smaller share of current Christians (6%) are converts. [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. If Islam would be dying then the mosques would not be getting more full with every coming year but the trend would be an opposite: mosques would get . ", "The Zoroastrians who remained in Persia (modern Iran) after the ArabMuslim conquest (7th century CE) had a long history as outcasts. [425] Yet, rather than being a cultural spread from either Iran or North America, in 2001, sociologist David Barrett wrote that the Bah Faith is, "A world religion with no racial or national focus". The Muslim population in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to reach nearly 1.5billion by 2050, up from roughly 1billion in 2010. Islam is projected to have a net gain of followers in Sub-Saharan Africa (+2.9 million) and Asia-Pacific (+0.95 million), but net loss of followers in North America (-0.58 million) and Europe (-0.06 million). [360] In Asia Pacific region, Muslims will surpass the Hindus by the time. [236] According to Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans, the number of Iranian Americans Muslims decreased from 42% in 2008 to 31% in 2012 according to a telephone survey around the Los Angeles region. Unless you are from a totalitarian country like China where the religion is intentionally put down. "God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades". [314] On the other hand, according to Pew Research, the number of American converts to Islam is roughly equal to the number of American Muslims who leave Islam and this is unlike other religions in the United States where the number of those who leave these religions is greater than the number of those who convert to it,[195] and most people who leave Islam become unaffiliated, according to same study ex-Muslims were more likely to be Christians compare to ex-Hindus or ex-Jews. Grim.[521]. [230][231][232][233][234][235][236] The 2014 Religious Landscape Study finds a large majority (87.6%) of those who were raised as Christians in the United States still identify as such, while the rest who no longer identify as Christians mostly identify as religiously unaffiliated, and the number of those leaving Christianity in the United States is greater than the number of converts; however, the number of those convert to evangelical Christianity in the United States is greater than the number of those leaving that faith. [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. 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. Kimberly Winston. The UN concluded that in the first eight months of 2014, at least 9,347 civilians had been killed and at least 17,386 wounded. Druze is a major religion in the Levant region. [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). 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[494] Zoroastrianism declined as forced conversion increased with the rise of Islam. Still others said they wanted to belong to a community (10%), that marriage or a relationship was the prime motivator (9%), that they were introduced to the faith by a friend, or that they were following a public leader (9%). [369] Under Islamic law, Muslims are required to pay Zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam. Seeing Your Alive Mother Dying in your dream may also signify premonition, isolation or trust issues from people. [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. Researchers polled mosques in London to try to calculate how many conversions take place a year. [324], According to the religious forecast for 2050 by Pew Research Center, between 2010 and 2050 modest net gains through religious conversion are expected for Muslims (3million)[326] and most of the net gains through religious conversion for Muslims found in Sub Saharan Africa (2.9million). only for their zeal to wane (note the flagging case of Zoroastrianism). [306][335] Equally, Darren E. Sherkat questioned in Foreign Affairs whether some of the Muslim growth projections are accurate as they do not take into account the increasing number of non-religious Muslims. [305] A 2007 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report argued that some Muslim population projections are overestimated, as they assume that all descendants of Muslims will become Muslims even in cases of mixed parenthood. 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. Changement de prnom et stratgies identitaires, entre culture d'origine et migration [Shklzen or Giannis? Kalmykia is the only Buddhist majority region in Europe. [80] According to scholar Francis Fukuyama of Stanford University "converts to Protestantism find their incomes, education levels, hygiene and social networks expanding". More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. Like Americans in many other religious groups, a substantial share of adults who were raised Muslim no longer identify as members of the faith. [115][116] According to study by Pew Research Center in 2021, around 19% of American those who say they were raised Jewish or who had at least one Jewish parent now identify as Christian. [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. Clerics are now expressing their concern about people, particularly youngsters, leaving the fold of Islam. [310] According to The New York Times, an estimated 25% of American Muslims are converts,[311] these converts are mostly African American. [349] The prospect of a homogenous Muslim community per se, or a Muslim majority in Europe is however out of the question. Indeed, while aboutone-in-fiveAmerican Muslim adults were raised in a different faith tradition and converted to Islam, a similar share of Americans who were raised Muslim nowno longer identify with the faith. A 2014 study indicated that over 1.2 million people will leave the church in the next year. Thus, this report excludes religious conversion as a direct factor from the projection of Muslim population growth. [384] In a 2008 conference on religion at Yale University's The MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society which hosted a speech from Hugh Kennedy, he stated forced conversions played little part in the history of the spread of the faith. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity.
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