The World’s Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography

Religion is always a controversial topic and there has been a lot of debate as to whether it is, in fact, a phenomenon that belongs to the past rather than to the present. However, the current state of international politics demonstrates that religion is alive and well and a major factor in determining the economic, social and military future of the world. The authors demonstrate very early on in their text that the pinnacle of the secularist world was probably about 1970, after which there has been a remarkable growth in both the number of people who acknowledge some kind...