Statistics: Professional associations and faith groups
- American Academy of Religion
- Association for the Sociology of Religion
- Association of Christians in Mathematical Sciences
- Association of Muslim Social Scientists of North America
- Canadian Science and Christian Affiliation
- Christian Association for Psychological Studies
- Christian Pharmacists Fellowship International
- Faith Based Marketing Association
- Fellowship of Scientists
- International Association of Muslim Psychologists
- Religion Newswriters Association
- Religious Communication Association
Statistics: Syllabi
- Religion and American Culture. Gayle Graham Yates, University of Minnesota
- Science, Pseudoscience, and the Two Cultures. Jay M. Pasachoff, Williams
Statistics: Journals
Statistics: Articles
- “Key findings on religion and statistics in America.” The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, 2007.
- “Religion: Sad Statistics.” Time. Aug. 26, 1940.
- “Religion and Secularization in Europe, Statistics Demonstrate Declining Church Attendance for Many Reasons” by Michael Streich, May 26, 2009.
- “New Study Produces U.S. Religion Statistics.” The Houston Chronicle, Nov. 10, 2001.
- “American Faith Statistics” (PBS), Sept. 26, 2003
- “More Americans customize religion to suit their needs” by Vittorio Hernandez. All Headline News. Sept. 13, 2011.
- “Jewish communities decline in Canada; Why? statscan searches for answer. Figures may be skewed because religion question is asked only every 10 years” by Jeff Heinrich. The Gazette (Montreal), April 4, 2008.
- “Data flawed, Islamic community leader claims” by Becky Rynor and Amy Husser. The Gazette (Montreal), Jun 10, 2008.
- “Islam exceeds Catholicism as largest single religion,” Reuters. The Globe and Mail (Canada), March 31, 2008.
- “France’s racial Catch-22; There’s no will to study society’s divisions” by Peter O’Neal. The Gazette (Montreal), March 21, 2009.
- “Birthrate up for Jews down for Muslims. 71 of babies Jewish 23 Muslim in 2006” by Judy Siegel. The Jerusalem Post, Nov. 7, 2007.
Statistics: Books
- A Convergence of Civilizations: The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World. Youssef Courbage, Emmanuel Todd and George Holoch, Jr. Columbia University Press, 2011.
- Social Statistics for a Diverse Society. Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and Anna Leon-Guerrero. Pine Forge Press, 2008.
- Religion and Domestic Violence, Information and Resources, Statistics. National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, 2007
- A Summary View of All Religions; Including the Creeds, Statistics, and Benevolent Operations of the Principal Protestant Sects. Daniel Wise and J. Porter. Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, 1840.
- Statistics for the Social Sciences. R. Mark Sirkin. Sage Publications, Inc., 2005.
- The American Christian record: containing the history, confession of faith, and statistics of each religious denomination in the United States and Europe. Washington: D.C., Buell & Blanchard & Lea, 2009.
- Strange Notes on Modern Statistics and Traditional Popular Religion in China: Further Reflections on the Importance of Sinology for Social Change as Applied to China. (L. Mende and M. Von Siebert (eds.). Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000.
- Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion. Rodney Stark and Roger Finke. University of California Press, 2000.
- Measuring the Immeasurable: The Scientific Case for Spirituality. Daniel Goleman et al. Sounds True, Incorporated, 2008.
- Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Eric Kaufmann. Profile Books, 2011.
Statistics: More links
- The Center on Religion & the Professions’ Collection of Survey and Poll Research, 2000-present
- American Religious Identification Survey (ReligionLink)
- Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
- Adherents.com
- Association of Religion Data Archives
- Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Datasets
- The Barna Group
- Gallup religion polls
- Ellison Research
- Lifeway Research
- Spirituality in Higher Education
- FACT Faith Communities Today
- Religion statistics by country
- University Libraries religion statistics links
- Librarians’ Internet Index – religion and statistics
- The Pluralism Project – statistics by tradition
- Statistics on Religion Resources (ReligionSource)
- Religion and Divorce statistics
- Statistics about Black Americas – Religion
- Percentage of population claiming no religion by state (StateMaster)
- Table of Statistics on Religious Affiliations in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula
- Religion and belief in the UK: some surveys and statistics (British Humanist Association)
- Data Pathfinders: Statistics on Religion (GIMSS), Religious Data: Statistics for Researchers
Statistics: Case Studies
- Akresh, Ilana Redstone. “Immigrants’ religious participation in the United States.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 34, No. 4 (2011): 643-61.
- Andrabi, Tahir; Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Tristan Zajonc. “Madrassa Metrics: The Statistics and Rhetoric of Religious Enrollment in Religion in Process of Globalization.” Beyond Crisis: Re-Evaluating Pakistan. Naveeda Khan (ed.). Routledge, 2010.
- Aspinall, Edward; Sebastian Dettman and Eve Warburton. “When religion trumps ethnicity: a regional case study from Indonesia.” South East Asia Research. Vol. 19, No. 1 (March 2011): 27-58.
Statistics: About the discipline
Statistics is a valuable tool in understanding religious trends and the role of religion in society. A mathematical science, it collects, analyses, interprets, explains and presents data, making it useful to a variety of academic disciplines, including religion. There is a growing interest and need for religious statistics that record the percentage of various faiths in cities, schools, professions, or nations; as well as to record trends in religious beliefs and viewpoints on current issues and events. [Read more…]