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Denominational map of America?

Posted on 08/16/2004 12:31:14 PM PDT by fishtank

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To: ZGuy

Great ferreting!


41 posted on 08/16/2004 10:18:55 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: ZGuy

I'm surprised that Texas doesn't show more Catholics.

Also according to this map Oregon and Washington are fairly unchurched.???

I wonder where the demographics for this map came from???

Also -- did the shape of NM change? Or is this map just strange?


42 posted on 08/16/2004 10:23:46 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: ZGuy

#22 is strange -- no Roman Catholic......???


43 posted on 08/16/2004 10:29:11 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: fishtank
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World Religions

Afghanistan Islam (Sunni 80%, Shi'ite 19%), other 1%
Albania Islam 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10% (est.)
Algeria Islam (Sunni) 99%
Andorra Roman Catholic (predominant)
Angola Indigenous 47%, Roman Catholic 38%, Protestant 15% (1998 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda Christian (predominantly Anglican and other Protestant; some Roman Catholic)
Argentina Roman Catholic 92%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%
Armenia Armenian Apostolic 94%, other Christian 4%, Yezidi 2%
Australia Anglican 26.1%, Roman Catholic 26%, other Christian 24.3%
Austria Roman Catholic 74%, Protestant 5%, Islam 4%, other 17%
Azerbaijan Islam 93.4%, Russian Orthodox 2.5%, Armenian Orthodox 2.3%, other 1.8% (1995 est.)
Bahamas Baptist 32%, Anglican 20%, Roman Catholic 19%, Methodist 6%, Church of God 6%, other Protestant 12%
Bahrain Islam (Shi'ite 70%, Sunni 30%)
Bangladesh Islam 83%, Hindu 16%, other 1%
Barbados Protestant 67% (Anglican 40%, Pentecostal 8%, Methodist 7%, other 12%), Roman Catholic 4%, none 17%, other 12%
Belarus Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 20% (1997 est.)
Belgium Roman Catholic 75%, Protestant or other 25%
Belize Roman Catholic 49.6%, Protestant 27% (Anglican 5.3%, Methodist 3.5%, Mennonite 4.1%, Seventh-Day Adventist 5.2%, Pentecostal 7.4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.5%), none 9.4%, other 14%
Benin indigenous 50%, Christian 30%, Islam 20%
Bhutan Lamaistic Buddhist 75%, Indian- and Nepalese-influenced Hinduism 25%
Bolivia Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) 5%
Bosnia and Herzegovina Slavic Muslim 40%, Orthodox 31%, Catholic 15%, Protestant 4%, other 10%
Botswana indigenous beliefs 85%, Christian 15%
Brazil Roman Catholic 80%
Brunei Darussalam Islam (official religion) 67%, Buddhist 13%, Christian 10%, indigenous beliefs and other 10%
Bulgaria Bulgarian Orthodox 82.6%, Islam 12.2%, Roman Catholic 1.7%, Jewish 0.1%, Protestant, Gregorian-Armenian, and other 3.4% (1998)
Burkina Faso Islam 50%, indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian (mainly Roman Catholic) 10%
Burundi Roman Catholic 62%, indigenous 23%, Islam 10%, Protestant 5%
Cambodia Theravada Buddhist 95%, others 5%
Cameroon indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian 40%, Islam 20%
Canada Roman Catholic 46%, Protestant 36%, other 18% (based on 1991 census)
Cape Verde Roman Catholic (infused with indigenous beliefs), Protestant (mostly Church of the Nazarene)
Central African Republic indigenous beliefs 35%, Protestant and Roman Catholic (both with animist influence) 25% each, Islam 15%
Chad Islam 51%, Christian 35%, animist 7%, other 7%
Chile Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 11%, small Jewish and Muslim populations
China Officially atheist but traditional religion contains elements of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism
Colombia Roman Catholic 90%
Comoros Sunni Muslim 98%, Roman Catholic 2%
Congo, Republic of Christian 50%, animist 48%, Islam 2%
Congo, Democratic Republic of the Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Islam 10%; other syncretic and indigenous, 10%
Costa Rica Roman Catholic 76.3%, Evangelical 13.7%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.3%, other Protestant 0.7%, other 4.8%, none 3.2%
Côte d'Ivoire indigenous 25%-40%, Islam 35%-40%, Christian 20%-30% (2001)
Croatia Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, Muslim 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, others and unknown 6.2% (2001)
Cuba nominally 85% Roman Catholic before Castro assumed power
Cyprus Greek Orthodox 78%, Islam 18%, Maronite, Armenian Apostolic, Latin, and others 4% (1993 est.)
Czech Republic atheist 39.8%, Roman Catholic 39.2%, Protestant 4.6%, Orthodox 3%, other 13.4%
Denmark Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%
Djibouti Islam 94%, Christian 6%
Dominica Roman Catholic 77%, Protestant 15% (Methodist 5%, Pentecostal 3%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3%, Baptist 2%, other 2%), none 2%, other 6%
Dominican Republic Roman Catholic 95%
East Timor Roman Catholic 90%, Islam 4%, Protestant 3%, Hindu 0.5%, Buddhist, animist (1992 est.)
Ecuador Roman Catholic 95%
Egypt Islam (mostly Sunni) 94%, Coptic Christian and other 6%
El Salvador Catholics 83%; growing population of evangelical Protestants (1992)
Equatorial Guinea nominally Christian and predominantly Roman Catholic, pagan practices
Eritrea Islam, Eritrean Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholic, Protestant
Estonia Evangelical Lutheran, Russian Orthodox, Estonian Orthodox, Baptist, Methodist, Seventh-Day Adventist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Word of Life, Jewish
Ethiopia Islam 45%–50%, Ethiopian Orthodox 35%–40%, animist 12%, other 3%-8%
Fiji Christian 52% (Methodist 37%, Roman Catholic 9%), Hindu 38%, Islam 8%, other 2%
Finland Evangelical Lutheran 89%, Greek Orthodox 1%, none 9%, other 1%
France Roman Catholic 83%-88%, Protestant 2%, Islam 5%-10%, Jewish 1%
Gabon Christian 55%-75%, Animist, Islam less than 1%
Gambia, The Islam 90%, Christian 9%, indigenous 1%
Georgia Georgian Orthodox 65%, Islam 11%, Russian Orthodox 10%, Armenian Orthodox 8%, unknown 6%
Germany Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Islam 3.7%, Unaffiliated or other 28.3%
Ghana Christian 63%, indigenous beliefs 21%, Islam 16%
Greece Greek Orthodox 98%, Islam 1.3%, other 0.7%
Grenada Roman Catholic 53%, Anglican 13.8%, other Protestant 33.2%
Guatemala Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs
Guinea Islam 85%, Christian 8%, indigenous 7%
Guinea-Bissau indigenous beliefs 50%, Islam 45%, Christian 5%
Guyana Christian 50%, Hindu 35%, Islam 10%, other 5%
Haiti Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%, Adventist 1%, other 1%), other 3%, none 1%. Note: roughly half the population practices Vaudou.
Honduras Roman Catholic 97%, growing population of evangelical Protestants
Hungary Roman Catholic 67.5%, Calvinist 20%, Lutheran 5%, atheist and others 7.5%
Iceland Church of Iceland (Evangelical Lutheran) 87.1%, other Protestant 4.1%, Roman Catholic 1.7%, other 7.1% (2002)
India Hindu 81.3%, Islam 12%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other (including Buddhists, Jains, and Parsis) 2.5%
Indonesia Islam 88%, Protestant 5%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 2%, Buddhist 1%, other 1%
Iran Shi'ite Muslim 89%, Sunni Muslim 10%
Iraq Islam 97% (Shi'ite 60%–65%, Sunni 32%–37%), Christian or other 3%
Ireland Roman Catholic 91.6%, Anglican 2.5%, other 5.9%
Israel Judaism 80.1%, Islam 14.6%, Christian 2.1%, others 3.2%
Italy Roman Catholic 98%, other 2%
Jamaica Protestant 61.3%, Roman Catholic 4%, other 39.1%
Japan Shintoist, Buddhist, Christian
Jordan Islam 92%, Christian 6%, other 2%
Kazakhstan Islam, 47%; Russian Orthodox, 44%; Protestant, 2%; other, 7%
Kenya Protestant, 45%; Roman Catholic, 33%; traditional, 10%; Islam, 10%; others, 2%
Kiribati Roman Catholic 52%, Protestant 40%
Korea, North Buddhism and Confucianism; religious activities almost nonexistent
Korea, South Christian, 49%; Buddhist, 47%; Confucianist, 3%; Chondogyo (religion of the Heavenly Way) and other, 1% (1996 est.)
Kuwait Islam, 85% (Shi'ite 30%, Sunni 70%), Christian, Hindu, Parsi, and other, 15%
Kyrgyzstan Islam, 75%; Russian Orthodox, 20%; other, 5%
Laos Buddhist 60%, animist and other 40%
Latvia Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and Russian Orthodox
Lebanon Islam 70%, Christian 30% (17 recognized sects), Judaism negl. (1 sect)
Lesotho Christian 80%, indigenous beliefs, Islam, and Bahai
Liberia traditional 40%, Christian 40%, Islam 20%
Libya Islam
Liechtenstein Roman Catholic, 76.2%, Protestant, 7%; unknown, 10.6%; other, 6.2%
Lithuania Catholic 85%, others include Lutheran, Russian Orthodox, Protestant, evangelical Christian Baptist, Islam, Judaism
Luxembourg Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant and Jewish 3%
Macedonia Eastern Orthodox 67%, Islam 30% (1994)
Madagascar traditional 52%, Christian 41%, Islam 7%
Malawi Christian 75%, Islam 20%
Malaysia Malays (all Muslims), Chinese (predominantly Buddhists), Indians (predominantly Hindus)
Maldives Islam (Sunni Muslim)
Mali Islam 90%, traditional 9%, Christian 1%
Malta Roman Catholic 98%
Marshall Islands predominantly Christian, mostly Protestant
Mauritania Islam
Mauritius Hindu 52%, Christian 28.3%, Islam 16.6%, other 3.1%
Mexico nominally Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 6%, other 5%
Moldova Eastern Orthodox 98%, Jewish 1.5%, Baptist and other 0.5% (2000)
Monaco Roman Catholic 90%
Mongolia predominantly Tibetan Buddhist; Islam about 4%
Morocco Islam 98.7%, Christian 1.1%, Jewish 0.2%
Mozambique traditional 50%, Christian 30%, Islam 20%
Myanmar Buddhist 89%, Christian 4%, Islam 4%, Animist 1%, other 2%
Namibia Predominantly Christian
Nauru Protestant 58%, Roman Catholic 24%, Confucian and Taoist 8%
Nepal Hindu 86.2%, Buddhist 7.8%, Islam 3.8%, other 2.2%
The Netherlands Roman Catholic 31%, Protestant 21%, Islam 4.4%, other 3.6%, unaffiliated 40%
New Zealand Christian 81%, none or unspecified 18%, Hindu, Confucian, and other 1%
Nicaragua Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant 15%
Niger Islam 80%, Animist and Christian 20%
Nigeria Islam 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous 10%
Norway Evangelical Lutheran 86% (state church), other Protestant and Roman Catholic 36%, other 1%, none and unknown 10%
Oman Islam 95%
Pakistan Islam 97%, Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Parsi
Palau Christian. About one-third of the islanders observe Modekngei religion, indigenous to Palau
Palestinian State (proposed) West Bank: Islam 75%, Jewish 17%, Christian and other 8%; Gaza Strip: Islam 98.7%, Christian 0.7%, Jewish 0.6%
Panama Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant 15%
Papua New Guinea over half are Christian, remainder indigenous
Paraguay Roman Catholic 90%
Peru Roman Catholic (90%)
The Philippines Roman Catholic 83%, Protestant 9%, Islam 5%, Buddhist and other 3%
Poland Roman Catholic 95% (about 75% practicing), Russian Orthodox, Protestant, and other 5%
Portugal Roman Catholic 94%, Protestant
Qatar Islam 95%
Romania Romanian Orthodox 87%, Protestant 6.8%, Roman Catholic 5.6%, other 0.4%, unaffiliated 0.2%
Russia Russian Orthodox, Islam, others
Rwanda Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Islam 4.6%, Animist 0.1%
St. Lucia Roman Catholic 90%, Protestant 7%, Anglican 3%
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Anglican 47%, Methodist 28%, Roman Catholic 13%
Samoa Christian 99.7%
San Marino Roman Catholic
São Tomé and Príncipe Roman Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, Seventh-Day Adventist
Saudi Arabia Islam 100%
Senegal Islam 94%, Christian 5%, indigenous 1%
Serbia and Montenegro Orthodox 65%, Islam 19%, Roman Catholic 4%, Protestant 1%, other 11%
Seychelles Roman Catholic 86.6%, Anglican 6.8%, other Christian 2.5%, other 4.1%
Sierra Leone Islam 60%, Indigenous 30%, Christian 10%
Singapore Islam, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist
Slovakia Roman Catholic 60.3%, atheist 9.7%, Protestant 8.4%, Orthodox 4.1%, other 17.5%
Slovenia Roman Catholic 70.8% (including 2% Uniate), Lutheran 1%, Islam 1%, other 27.2%
Solomon Islands Anglican, Roman Catholic, South Seas Evangelical, Seventh-Day Adventist, United (Methodist) Church, other Protestant
Somalia Islam (Sunni)
South Africa Christian; Hindu; Islam
Spain Roman Catholic 94%
Sri Lanka Buddhist 70%, Hindu 15%, Christian 8%, Islam 7%
Sudan Islam (Sunni) 70%, indigenous 20%, Christian 5%
Suriname Hindu 27.4%, Protestant 25.2%, Roman Catholic 22.8%, Islam 19.6%, indigenous about 5%
Swaziland Christian 60%, indigenous 40%
Sweden Evangelical Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic 1.5%, Pentecostal 1%, other 3.5%
Switzerland Roman Catholic 46.1%, Protestant 40%, other 5%, no religion 8.9%
Syria Islam 90%, Christian 10%
Taiwan mixture of Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist 93%, Christian 4.5%, other 2.5%
Tajikistan Sunni Muslim 85%
Tanzania mainland: Christian 30%, Islam 35%, indigenous 35%; Zanzibar: Islam, 99%
Thailand Buddhist 95%, Islam 3.8%, Christian 0.5%, Hindu 0.1%, other 0.6%
Togo Indigenous beliefs 51%, Christian 29%, Islam 20%
Tonga Christian; Free Wesleyan Church claims over 30,000 adherents
Trinidad and Tobago Roman Catholic 29.4%, Hindu 23.8%, Anglican 10.9%, Islam 5.8%, Presbyterian 3.4%, other 26.7%
Tunisia Islam (Sunni) 98%, Christian 1%, Jewish, less than 1%
Turkey Islam (mostly Sunni) 99.8%
Turkmenistan Islam 89%, Eastern Orthodox 9%, unknown 2%
Tuvalu Church of Tuvalu (Congregationalist) 97%
Uganda Christian 66%, Islam 16%
Ukraine Orthodox 76%, Ukrainian Catholic (Uniate) 13.5%, Jewish 2.3%, Baptist, Mennonite, Protestant, and Islam 8.2%
United Arab Emirates Islam (Sunni 80%, Shi'ite 16%), others 4%
United Kingdom Church of England (established church), Church of Wales (disestablished), Church of Scotland (established church—Presbyterian), Church of Ireland (disestablished), Roman Catholic, Methodist, Congregational, Baptist, Jewish
United States Protestant, 56%; Roman Catholic, 28%; Jewish, 2%; other, 4%; none, 10%
Uruguay Roman Catholic 66%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%
Uzbekistan Islam (mostly Sunnis) 88%, Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%
Vanuatu Presbyterian 36.7%, Roman Catholic 15%, Anglican 15%, other Christian 10%, indigenous beliefs 7.6%, other 15.7%
Vatican City (Holy See) Roman Catholic.
Venezuela Roman Catholic 96%, Protestant 2%
Vietnam Buddhist, Roman Catholic, Islam, Taoist, Confucian, Animist
Western Sahara (proposed state) Islam
Yemen Islam (Sunni and Shi'ite)
Zambia Christian 50%–75%, Islam and Hindu 24%–49%, remainder indigenous beliefs
Zimbabwe Christian 25%, Animist 24%, Syncretic 50%


44 posted on 08/16/2004 10:45:54 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: fishtank

I found a table at the Census bureau listing Christian adherents as a percent of the population by state in 1990.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/statab/sec01.pdf
Table 76 on page 62 of the 2000 Statistical Abstract of the United States.


45 posted on 08/17/2004 6:19:46 AM PDT by NC28203
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To: fishtank

The following book may have a map. It may be in your library.

Religious Congregations & Membership: 2000

“This study reports that 140 million Americans are associated with one of the 149 religious bodies participating in the study,” said Dale E. Jones, chair of the committee that directed this study for its sponsoring organization, the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). “That’s half (50.2%) of all Americans.” Jones is the director of the Nazarene Research Center (Kansas City, Mo.) which managed and processed the 2000 data.

Like all previous reports in this series of studies on U.S. religious affiliation, data are reported by region, state and county. The last report, Churches and Church Membership in the United States: 1990, included data on 133 church/congregational groupings. The 2000 study and its publication are made possible by a grant from the Lilly Endowment. Inc.



http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/release.htm


46 posted on 08/17/2004 6:24:57 AM PDT by NC28203
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To: ZGuy

Thanks for the map. From the looks of things, either I'm in a Baptist area or it's time to plant my fall zinnias.


47 posted on 08/17/2004 6:30:14 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 (When it's all said and done, someone starts another conversation.......)
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To: All

Bump for map reference


48 posted on 08/17/2004 6:48:32 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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To: Salvation
World Religions link to above list -- ConservativeStLouisGuy
49 posted on 08/17/2004 6:55:53 AM PDT by ConservativeStLouisGuy (11th FReeper Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Unnecessarily Excerpt)
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To: ZGuy

I would agree that urban New England is heavily Roman Catholic, but the rural areas are largely Congregationalist. I would also have included the Mennonite/Amish areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Alaska has historically been Russian Orthodox, but I don't know if that's true today.


50 posted on 08/17/2004 9:09:22 AM PDT by bobjam
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To: ConservativeStLouisGuy

Thanks. I thought about that too late last night.


51 posted on 08/17/2004 9:20:55 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: ConservativeStLouisGuy

Interesting that in the list you referenced, that of all the countries in the world, the country with the highest percentage of people whose religion is "none" is . . . . . . the United States.


52 posted on 08/17/2004 9:23:51 AM PDT by ZGuy
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To: fishtank

Presbyterians and other minor denominations are small and irrelevant groups that do not have a majority or plurality in any county. That's why you don't see them on the map.


53 posted on 08/17/2004 10:08:16 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: bobjam

Rurual New England hasn't been "largely Congregationalist" for 150 years. New England has very few New English any more. Its mostly, Irish, French-Canadian, Portuguese, and Italian, hence over 50% Catholic nearly everywhere.

The New English forgot to have children starting about 100-150 years ago. Its been downhill for them ever since.


54 posted on 08/17/2004 10:21:43 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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