What Are The Top Fastest Growing Religions Today?
What are the Top Fastest Growing Religions Today?
The demographics of religion are rapidly changing worldwide. In most cases, the populations of major world religions remain relatively steady through a constant birthrate. Practitioners of a certain religion will stay numerous as long as the individual members of the religion continue to reproduce and start families. However, there are a few religions that tend to grow faster than the birthrate, which means that adults are converting and adding to the population, causing steady growth that may continue over a period of years or decades.
Buddhism is usually recognized as one of the fastest growing religions. Most of this new growth is attributed to Western countries, since the population in Eastern countries remains steady. While Americans and Europeans convert to Buddhism, the equilibrium experienced in Asian countries turns into positive growth worldwide. There are over half a million people practicing Buddhism in the United States alone, which is a significant increase from recent years.
Hinduism is another religion that experiences significant growth. Nearly all people living in the Republic of India identify as Hindus, which accounts for a huge portion of the worldwide members of the religion. India has experienced some population growth in recent years with a rapidly growing population of young people and juveniles. Most of the recent growth of Buddhism can be attributed to this increase in population.
Other religions continue to experience rapid growth in certain areas, not the least of which are Christianity, Judaism and the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. Most of this growth is attributed to missionaries and other active conversions that occur worldwide on a regular basis. Some religions that were previously obscure in Western culture are becoming more prominent, including Zoroastrianism and Sikhism, as well as some that may be considered a philosophy instead of a religion such as Confucianism.
Posted by Derrick on November 15th, 2011 :: Filed under Religion
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