Talk:Growth of religion
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As an outside observer, I've been struck by the tone of this page
Hello,
I found it surprising the level of seeming vitriol against Islam contained throughout this page.
I understand that people editing these pages are most likely of a religious nature and with their own historical narratives, but this page feels fairly useless, when read as a whole, as it's hard to see anything other than grievances and selective narratives.
E.g. there seems to be ridiculous views that "Muslim women are uneducated and reproduce more" which is a wholly generalized statement and an explanation not offered anywhere for other growth rates. Where Islam is seemingly written as causing atrocities against Hindus, there's nothing equivalent about e.g. Christian genocides against Muslims (such as in Bosnia), or Hindus against Muslims (Gujarat riots), or Christians against Jews (Holocaust) etc. It's only Muslims which seem to appear in the other religions' sections and referenced to fairly right wing sources.
I think this page could do with rationalization and standardisation as it feels prejudiced throughout. 92.40.199.84 (talk) 19:51, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
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Curious if the world maps can be normalised and/or the tabulated data provided?
Christian map - percentage of each country population
Hinduism map - percentage of each country population
Islam map - population within each country by millions
Judaism map - percentage of each country population
Unaffiliated map - percentage of each country population
Makes it hard to draw comparisons when they're not all on a common scale. 203.214.79.189 (talk) 23:06, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Change the Christian and Muslim population
The Pew Research Center released a new report on the growth of the religious population on June 9, 2025. Christians are 29% of the population and have 2.2 billion adherents as of 2020. Muslims have 25.6% and have 2.02 billion as of 2020 in the new report.
See Pew Research Center: 9 June 2025. 2010-2020 Religious Landscape. 2001:448A:1106:17D1:75F4:3FFC:77C1:2695 (talk) 03:24, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
"Unaffiliated growth" is poorly described
All the sections talking about the decline of religion and the rise of the unaffiliated seem to be describing it as if it's some huge rise in atheism, and seems to poorly describe the situation as a decline in theism and not a decline in mainstream religion. Most unaffiliated are theists.
I think it would be good to just clarify that, but I didn't want to come off as a vandal so I thought I'd put some context here. ~2025-37694-26 (talk) 01:57, 4 January 2026 (UTC)