[68] The study also suggested that by 2050, the global Christian population will change considerably. [421] From having roughly 200,000 Bahs in 1950,[422] the religion grew to having over 4 million by the late 1980s, with a widespread international distribution. 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. [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. On the other hand, the fertility rate in Europe as a whole was (1.6). According to Arvind Sharma, Hinduism "is typically quite comfortable with multiple religious participation, multiple religious affiliations, and even with multiple religious identities. [333] On the other hand, the increasingly large ex-Muslim communities in the Western world that adhere to no religion have been well documented. The proportion of the global religiously unaffiliated living in North America will rise from 5% in 2010, to 9% in 2050. "[294], Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world. In fact, about half of all converts to Islam (53%) identified as Protestant before converting; another 20% were Catholic. [437] In 1989 the Universal House of Justice named Bolivia, Bangladesh, Haiti, India, Liberia, Peru, the Philippines, and Taiwan as countries where growth in the religion had been notable in the previous decades. 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. Islam is now the second most popular religion on the planet with more . 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. [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 also stated that "the number of people who embrace Islam and the number of those who leave Islam are roughly equal. HarperCollins, 2009, p.15,93. [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. [38] According to the same study Buddhists "are projected to decline in absolute number, dropping 7% from nearly 500 million in 2015 to 462 million in 2060. [52] In 2010, 26% of the world's Christians lived in Europe, followed by 24.4% in Latin America and the Caribbean, 23.8% in Sub-Saharan Africa, 13.2% in Asia and the Pacific, 12.3% in North America, and 1% in the Middle East and North Africa. [394] Studies have shown that Haredi Jews population is rising rapidly due to the young age and very high fertility-rate,[395] especially in Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990 1990. [340] Islam is widely considered as the fastest growing religion in Europe due primarily to immigration and above average birth rates. [225] According to the same study Christianity is expected to lose a net of 66 million adherents (40 million converts versus 106 million apostate) mostly to religiously unaffiliated category between 2010 and 2050, it is also expected that Christianity may have the largest net loses in terms of religious conversion. [237] While on the other hand, in 2017, scholars Landon Schnabel and Sean Bock at Harvard University and Indiana University argued that while "Mainline Protestant" churches has declined in the United States since the late 1980s, but many of them do not leave Christianity, but rather convert to another Christian denomination, in particularly to evangelicalism. Some seven years later, Muhammad and his many followers returned to Mecca and conquered the region. For example, federal legislation prohibits and criminalizes non-Muslims for preaching or converting Muslims into their religion, even though the reverse is allowed. Sept. 11, 2001, marked the start of a new era for Muslims in the United States.. However, religiously unaffiliated is expected to grow slightly due to a decrease in the fertility rate among the religiously unaffiliated population. [360] In Asia Pacific region, Muslims will surpass the Hindus by the time. [52] In 1900, Europe and the Americas were home to the vast majority of the world's Christians (93%). [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. . [313] Experts say that conversions to Islam have doubled in the past 25 years in France, among the six million Muslims in France, about 100,000 are converts. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Unless you are from a totalitarian country like China where the religion is intentionally put down. [519] The database groups adherents into 18 broadly-defined categories: Agnostics, Atheists,[c] Bahs, Buddhists, Chinese folk-religionists, Christians, Confucianists, Daoists, Ethnoreligionists, Hindus, Jains, Jews, Muslims, New Religionists, Shintoists, Sikhs, Spiritists, and Zoroastrians. Here are other chief findings from the report: 1. The Parsis will then cease to be called a community and will be labeled a 'tribe'. Additionally, in some countries, legal and social consequences make conversion difficult. 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. Grim.[521]. He continued to preach until his death in 632. [195], Resurgent Islam is one of the most dynamic religious movements in the contemporary world. Pew Research projections, over time fertility rates generally converge toward the 27 views, 2 likes, 0 loves, 0 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Dodi Sefriadi: Murtad dulu entar syahadat lagi. [75] Protestantism is growing primarily as a result of historic missionary activity and the recently high fertility rate in Africa,[76][77][38] and due primarily to conversion in China. Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 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). Plattner, Marc F. and Costopoulos, Philip J. There is an ongoing silent migration away from the church of an estimated 3,500 individuals each and every day. The Evil Eye is a curse that is believed to be cast by someone who has envy or jealousy towards another person. [53] According to Pew Research Center study, by 2050 the number of Christians in absolute number is expected to grow to more than double in the next few decades,[54] from 517 million to 1.1billion in Sub Saharan Africa,[54] from 531million to 665million in Latin America and Caribbean,[54] from 287 million to 381million in Asia,[54] and from 266 million to 287million in North America. [338], It is often reported from various sources, including the German domestic intelligence service (Bundesnachrichtendienst), that Salafism is the fastest-growing Islamic movement in the world. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, over the next four decades the number of Buddhists around the world is expected to decrease from 487 million in 2010 to 486 million in 2050. [318] With 3.1 children per woman, Muslims have higher fertility levels than the world's overall population between 2010 and 2015. [382] But, unlike some other faiths, Islam gains about as many converts as it loses. 6 million of those converts came from Indonesia however the report also includes the descendants of those who converted in Indonesia as well. Sociologist Phil Zuckerman's global studies on atheism have indicated that global atheism may be in decline due to irreligious countries having the lowest birth rates in the world and religious countries having higher birth rates in general. [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. [423][421][424] Most of the growth in the late 20th century was seeded out of North America by means of the planned migration of individuals. 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. Sign up now! [287], Hinduism is a growing religion in countries such as Ghana,[288] Russia,[289] and the United States. [420], From the Bah' Faith's origins in the 19th century until the 1950s, the vast majority of Bahs were found in Iran; converts from outside Iran were mostly found in India and the Western world. 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. [95][96][97], In 1900, there were only 8.7million[47] adherents of Christianity in Africa, while in 2010 there were 390 million. [361], In 2010 Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria was home for (47.8%) of the world's Muslims. [328] By the end of 2100 Muslims are expected to outnumber Christians. The largest net movement is expected to be into the religiously unaffiliated category between 2010 and 2050. [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. 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. [516], The World Religion Database[517] (WRD) is a peer-reviewed database of international religious statistics based on research conducted at the Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs at Boston University. [279] Syria is home to the largest Druzite community in the world, according to a study published by Columbia University, the number of Syrian Druze increased from 684,000 in 2010 to 730,000 in mid of 2018. What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S. The number of adherents of the Chinese traditional religion is difficult to count, because of:[45], Chinese rarely use the term "religion" for their popular religious practices, and they also do not utilize a vocabulary that they "believe in" gods or truths. [408] Since 2005, the world's Jewish population has been growing modestly at a rate of around 0.78% (in 2013). [512][513][514] However, this has not been confirmed by independent sources. forced converts from Islam. The growth of a religion can interact with factors such as persecution, entrenched rival religions (such as established religions), and religious market saturation. Fewer identify as Christian (22%), and an additional one-in-five (21%) identify with a wide variety of smaller groups, including faiths such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, or as generally spiritual.. 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). [505] A slower birthrate than deathrate accounts for the rest: as of 2001, Parsis over the age of 60 make up for 31% of the community. [327] While both religions will grow but Muslim population will exceed the Christian population and by 2100, Muslim population (35%) will be 1% more than the Christian population (34%). [38], According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Hinduism (1.52%) is one of the six fastest-growing religions in the world, with high birth rates in India being cited as the major reasons of the Hindu population growth. This has only been achieved in rare cases, and then only for particular countries, such as the American Religious Identification Survey[451] in the United States, or census data from Australia (which has included a voluntary religious question since 1911). Atheism Among Muslims is "Spreading Like Wildfire" Atheism among Muslim populations was once unthinkable. [7] Another study found that the number of people who will leave Islam is 9,400,000 and the number of converts to Islam is 12,620,000 so the net gain to Islam through conversion should be 3 million between 2010 and 2050, mostly from Sub Saharan Africa (2.9million). Muslims take 2.5% out of their salaries and use the funds give to the needy. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. [461] The religiously unaffiliated are stationed largely in the Asia-Pacific region, where 76% resided in that region in 2010, and is expected to be 68% by 2050. That means 3 of every 4 people leaving Islam go to something other than Christianity. Those who have left Islam are more likely to be immigrants from Iran (22%) than those who have not switched faiths (8%). [504] One-fifth of the decrease in population is attributed to migration. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. [83], The US Department of State estimated in 2005 that Protestants in Vietnam may have grown by 600% over the previous 10 years. Those who embrace Islam tend to do so after years of contact with Muslims. Some metro areas, such as Washington, D.C., have sizable Muslim communities. [89], In recent years, the number of Chinese Christians has increased significantly; Christians were 4 million before 1949 (3million Catholics and 1million Protestants), and are reaching 67million today. Kimberly Winston. 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. It is completely reasonable to assume that the overall Muslim population in Europe will increase, and Muslim citizens have and will have a significant impact on European life. 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Credit: Kitti Kahotong / EyeEm. Of those converting, only 22 percent are becoming Christian adherents. Religion. Table 4.1: Police officer leavers, by route of exit, years ending 31 March . [37] According to the Pew Research Center published on 2010, religious conversion may have little impact on the Buddhists population between 2010 and 2050; Buddhists are expected to lose 2.9 million adherents between 2010 and 2050. [338], By 2010 an estimated 44 million Muslims were living in Europe (6%), up from 4.1% in 1990.