And who are Musilisms? :) Its interesting that the smallest number is people that believe in spirits in nature. If this is referring to animism, this infiltrates the major world religions most notably in Islam, Hinduism and even Christianity.*
Most people living in the 2/3rds world (10/40 window or what we would call the Third World of North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia) actually practice their religion at the "folk" level, meaning it is heavily influenced by animism. I think this diagram is helpful in the broad sense of seeing what religious systems the people of the world claim to believe in, but if we are to see what people actually "practice" we should look a bit closer...perhaps to the center of the flame?
*For more discussion on this see Paul Hiebert's "Understanding Folk Religion"
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I think people often forget that Buddhists (generally) are really atheists. I wonder how many people would actually be a mix of many of these.
Any idea of how these numbers are changing over time?
And who are Musilisms? :) Its interesting that the smallest number is people that believe in spirits in nature. If this is referring to animism, this infiltrates the major world religions most notably in Islam, Hinduism and even Christianity.*
Most people living in the 2/3rds world (10/40 window or what we would call the Third World of North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia) actually practice their religion at the "folk" level, meaning it is heavily influenced by animism. I think this diagram is helpful in the broad sense of seeing what religious systems the people of the world claim to believe in, but if we are to see what people actually "practice" we should look a bit closer...perhaps to the center of the flame?
*For more discussion on this see Paul Hiebert's "Understanding Folk Religion"
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