| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hinduism | Kenya | 60,000 | - | - | - | 1993 | *LINK* "Publisher's Desk: Hinduism Today in Africa " in Hinduism Today International (Oct. 1993, Vol. 15, No. 10) | on the continent there are major Hindu populations in South Africa (1.2 million), Tanzania (60,000), Kenya (60,000), Nigeria (30,000) and Zambia (20,000) with significant communities in Zimbabwe, Somalia and Botswana. |
| Hinduism | Kenya | 253,000 | 1.00% | - | - | 1997 | Dostert, Pierre Etienne. Africa 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997), pg. 174. | Estimates of % of population in principal religions, & est. 1997 total pop. |
| Hinduism | Kenya | - | 0.50% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Islam | Kenya | 1,300,000 | 9.00% | - | - | 1978 | Welch, Alford T. "Islam " in Hinnells, John R. (ed). A Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin Books: New York (1991) [reprint; 1st published in 1984], pg. 164-165. [Original src: Weeks, R. (ed.), "Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey " (1978).] | Table: "Approximate Muslim populations and percentages of total populations " |
| Islam | Kenya | 4,000,000 | 29.50% | - | - | 1986 | *LINK* Web site: "Arabic Paper "; web page: "Muslim Countries of the World " (viewed 15 June 1999). [Written 1998.] | [NOTE: Unreliable statistical methodology.] "In 1986... Muslim Education Trust organization [U.K.] obtained... 1971 census & [info. from] Embassies of the respective countires... 1971 census showed the Muslim Minorities countries had around 308 Million Muslim.. "; "...add (784.5M [independent Muslim countries]+ 308M) = 1092.5 Million Muslims in 1971 "; Table shows country, "population " [number of Muslims in the country], & % Muslim. Total adds up to 317,391,000, so these figures are apparently intended to be estimates for 1986. |
| Islam | Kenya | - | 6.00% | - | - | 1988 | Bratvold, Gretchen (ed). Kenya ...in Pictures (Visual Geography Series). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications Co. (1988), pg. 48. | "Muslims--followers of Islam--are the least numerous religious group, supported by 6% of the population... Muslims are found mostly along the coastal region. " |
| Islam | Kenya | 1,200,000 | - | - | - | 1988 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: 11/12/88 issue of GLOBAL PRAYER DIGEST); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | "PRAY FOR THE 1,200,000 MUSLIMS OF KENYA. " |
| Islam | Kenya | - | 6.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994) pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% " |
| Islam | Kenya | 1,750,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year. Pg. 781-783. | Table: "Religion ": Divided by nations, with 2 columns: "Religious affiliation " & "1996 pop. " [of that religion]. Based on best avail. figures, whether census data, membership figures or estimates by analysts, as % of est. 1996 midyear pop. |
| Islam | Kenya | 1,120,000 | 4.00% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 1 - Africa. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 245-246. | "Location: Kenya; Population: 28 million "; "Kenya's religious heritage mirrors its ethnic history... The majority religion is Christianity, with about 37% Protestant (including Quakers) and 25% Roman Catholic; and 4% Muslim. " |
| Islam | Kenya | - | 6.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Islam | Kenya | 1,706,000 | 5.50% | - | - | 2000 | K. F. Bin Mohd Noor. "Muslims Statistics... for Year 2000 " [orig. src: Barrett. World Christian Encyclopedia, 1982] | Table |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | Kenya | 3,005 | 0.02% | 98 units |
- | 1983 | Botting, Heather & Gary Botting. The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1984), pg. 53-59. | Table: "1983 Service Year Report of JWs Worldwide "; Adherent count here is from "1983 Peak Publishers " column |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | Kenya | 12,142 | 0.04% | 220 units |
- | 1997 | *LINK* official organization web site | Adherent/member count is for "1997 Peak Witnesses "; Memorial attendance (annual sacrament meeting) for same year: 35,236. |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | Kenya | 13,214 | 0.05% | 228 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* Jehovah's Witnesses official web site; section: "Statistics "; web page: "Worldwide Report " (viewed 16 April 1999). | Table: "1998 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide "; This adherent/member count is for "1998 Peak Witnesses " |
| Jehovah's Witnesses - Memorial attendance | Kenya | 8,567 | - | 98 units |
- | 1983 | Botting, Heather & Gary Botting. The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1984), pg. 53-59. | Table: "1983 Service Year Report of JWs Worldwide "; Data from columns: "No. of congs. " and "Memorial attendance " |
| Jehovah's Witnesses - Memorial attendance | Kenya | 35,236 | 0.13% | 220 units |
- | 1997 | *LINK* official organization web site | From 1997 Statistics "Memorial attendance " column. Count of all who attend this once-a-year meeting, whether or not a "publisher " in full standing. Most would be considered adherents. |
| Jehovah's Witnesses - Memorial attendance | Kenya | 34,590 | 0.12% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jehovah's Witnesses official web site; section: "Statistics "; web page: "Worldwide Report " (viewed 16 April 1999). | Table: "1998 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide "; "Memorial attendance " column indicates attendance at yearly communion meeting. |
| Judaism | Kenya | 400 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
| Kalenjin | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Kalenjin | Kenya | 2,700,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 1 - Africa. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 230, 232. | "Kalenjin: Location: Kenya; Population: About 2.7 million "; "Currently, nearly everyone professes to being a member of some organized religion--either Christianity or Islam. Major Christian sects include the Africa Inland Church (AIC), the Church of the Province of Kenya (CPK), and the Roman Catholic Church. Muslims are relatively few in number among the Kalenjin. Generally speaking, today only older people can recall details of traditional religious beliefs. " [NOTE: This statistic is of tribal/ethnic affiliation, NOT a count of those practicing Kalenjin traditional religion.] |
| Keiyo | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Keiyo | Kenya | 110,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 1 - Africa. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 240-241. | "Kalenjin: Location: Kenya; Population: 110,000 "; "The Keiyo live in the western section of Africa's Great rift Valley in... Keiyo District. "; Pg. 241: "Currently, nearly everyone professes membership in some organized religion--either Christianity or Islam. Major Christian sects include the Afria Inland Church (AIC), the Church of the Province of Kenya (CPK), and the Roman Catholic Church. Muslims are relatively few in number among the Keiyo. Generally speaking, today only the older people can recall details of traditional religious beliefs. " [NOTE: This statistic is a measure of tribal/ethnic affiliation, NOT a count of people who practice traditional Keiyo religion.] |
| Kenya Mennonite Church | Kenya | 11,500 | - | 108 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* Mennonite World Conference web site. Directory 1998. Web page: "Africa: Mennonite & Brethren in Christ Churches " | KENYA... Kenya Mennonite Church... Members: 11,500; Congregations: 108 |
| Kikuyu | Kenya | 1,500,000 | - | - | - | 1970 | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 12). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970), pg. 1561. | "Kikuyu. The largest of the 48 tribes living in Kenya, the Kikuyu number some 1 1/2 million people. They came to the attention of the outside world in the 1950s because of their membership of the Mau Mau, a terrorist organization whose avowed aim was to drive the white man out of Kenya... The Mau Mau, however, were not representative of the majority of Kikuyu who usually prefer diplomacy to open warfare with their neighbors. They belong to the great Bantu-speaking group of Negroes and are predominantly agriculturists and goatherders... The Kikuyu religion is fundamentally pagan and animistic, as religion has always been throughout Black Africa. The Kikuyu have a chief god who inhabits the sky... " |
| Kikuyu | Kenya | - | - | - | - | 1970 | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 12). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970), pg. 1565. | "Most of the customs described here are changing rapidly as the Kikuyu, along with other African tribes, turn their faces towards the modern world. Western methods of exploiting Nature tend to undermine their traditional reverence for forests... All these developments during the last decade, since Kenya became an independent state, have led some observers to fear that the traditional religious beliefs and social customs are being discarded too rapidly, wiht no positive standards to take their place. This, however, is the general effect of progress and Westernization throughout Black Africa. " |
| Kikuyu | Kenya | 3,000,000 | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, Jim & Joann Biondi. From Afar to Zulu: A Dictionary of African Cultures>. New York: Walker Publishing Co. (1995), pg. 102, 107. | "Kikuyu: Population: 3,000,000; Location: Kenya; Languages: Kikuyu (a Bantu dialect), English "; Pg. 107: "While many of the Kikuyu converted to Christianity during the period of British control, most tried to incorporate their older customs into their newly adopted religion. Today, most of the Kikuyu worship a single god known as Ngai and still believe in the powerful influence of ancestor spirits. Sheep and goats are occasionally used for religious sacrifice. " |
| Kipsigis | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Legio Maria | Kenya | - | - | - | - | 1998 | Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. "Religion " in The Future Now: Predicting the 21st Century. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1998), pg. 64. | "The Catholic Church has had to disown some waywrd offshoots, like the Maria Legio in Kenya... " |
| Luhya | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Luhya | Kenya | 3,000,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 1 - Africa. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 260. | "Luhya: Location: Western Kenya; Population: 3 million; Language: Several Bantu dialects; Religion: Christianity (Catholicism, Protestantism); Islam; some indigenous beliefs "; "At the turn of the 20th century, Christianity was introduced to Luhyaland as it was to the rest of the country. An extensive spread of Christianity occurred during the colonial period. The overwhelming majority of Luhya people now consider themselves Christians. Both Catholicism and Protestantism are practiced. Among the Abawanga, Islam is also practiced. Despite conversion to Christianity, belief in spirits and witchcraft is still common, and it is not unusual to find people offering prayers in church and at the same time consulting witch doctors or medicine men for the same or different problems. " |
| Luo | Kenya | - | - | - | - | 1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Marakwet | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Mau Mau | Kenya | - | - | - | - | 1955 | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 12). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970), pg. 1561. | "Kikuyu. The largest of the 48 tribes living in Kenya, the Kikuyu number some 1 1/2 million people. They came to the attention of the outside world in the 1950s because of their membership of the Mau Mau, a terrorist organization whose avowed aim was to drive the white man out of Kenya. The Mau Mau tactics consisted largely of ritual murders which... required the killer to cut off the victim's head and drink the liquid of his eyeballs. " |
| Mau Mau | Kenya | - | - | - | - | 1958 | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 13). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970), pg. 1770. | "Mau Mau. Secret nationalist and terrorist society among the Kikuyu in Kenya; led by prophets in its early days... after much bloodshed, Mau Mau was suppressed in the late 1950s. " |
| Mennonite World Conference | Kenya | 11,646 | - | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* Mennonite World Conference web site; page: "Mennonite and Brethren in Christ World Membership Totals " (viewed 8 Aug. 1999). | Table: "Mennonite and Brethren in Christ World Membership Totals "; "based on the most recent data available... from 1996 or 1997... statistics indicate baptized members "; Dif. religious bodies: 3. |
| Nomiya Luo Church | Kenya | - | - | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 1 - Africa. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 246. | "The first independent church in Kenya, and currently one of Kenya's largest, was called the Nomiya Luo Church. Its founder, Johana Owalo, was one of the early converts to Christianity around the year 1900. In 1906, he was baptized a Roman Catholic. In 1907, he had a vision and was taken to Heaven by the Angel Gabriel... After this and other instructional visions, he left Catholicism for Anglicanism. Subsequent to this, he learned to speak Arabic and converted to the Islamic faith. In time, he began to teach that mission churches were contrary to African traditions and began to attract many followers... " |
| Oromo | Kenya | - | - | - | - | 1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| other | Kenya | 1,340,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year. Pg. 781-783. | Table; "other " = NOT Roman Catholic, Protestant, primal-indigenous, African Christian, Anglican, Islam |
| other | Kenya | 9,520,000 | 34.00% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 1 - Africa. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 245-246. | "Location: Kenya; Population: 28 million "; "Kenya's religious heritage mirrors its ethnic history... The majority religion is Christianity, with about 37% Protestant (including Quakers) and 25% Roman Catholic; and 4% Muslim. The remainder practice traditional indigenous beliefs or are members of independent Christian churches which have broken away from Protestant and Catholic denominations, often over indegnous belifes that are found incompatible with European dogma. Smaller numbers of Kenyans are Hindus, Sikhs, Parsees, Bahais, and followers of Judaism. " |
| Pakot | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Pokot | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| polygamy | Kenya | - | - | - | - | 1970 | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 12). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970), pg. 1565. | "Kikuyu. The largest of the 48 tribes living in Kenya... Polygamy is permitted, as it is throughout... Africa. The second and subsequent wives are usually chosen by the first, or senior wife, who naturally often selects a friend who, for some reason or other, has not obtained a husband... there is neighter prostitution nor illegitimacy in traditional Kikuyu society, nor are there unwilling spinsters. " |
| polygamy | Kenya | - | - | - | - | 1988 | Bratvold, Gretchen (ed). Kenya ...in Pictures (Visual Geography Series). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications Co. (1988), pg. 48. | "Protestants number 38%, Roman Catholics represent 28%, and supporters of traditional beliefs account for 26%... Many customs of the African population of Kenya have survived within the framework of Christian churches without conflict. Polygamy--the practice of having more than one wife--however, has caused some strain between the people of Kenya and the Christian churches. It has long been an African custom for a man to take as many wives as he can afford to support. In this way, the family continues to grow as the marriages produce many children and will help support the family when they are adults... " |
| primal-indigenous | Kenya | - | 26.00% | - | - | 1988 | Bratvold, Gretchen (ed). Kenya ...in Pictures (Visual Geography Series). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications Co. (1988), pg. 48. | "Protestants number 38%, Roman Catholics represent 28%, and supporters of traditional beliefs account for 26%. " |
| primal-indigenous | Kenya | - | 19.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994) pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% "; Listed in table as "Traditional beliefs " |
| primal-indigenous | Kenya | 5,510,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year. Pg. 781-783. | Table; listed as "traditional beliefs " |
| primal-indigenous | Kenya | 7,488,802 | 26.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Protestant (including Anglican) 38%, Roman Catholic 28%, indigenous beliefs 26%, other 8%; Total population: 28,803,085. |
| primal-indigenous | Kenya | 6,072,000 | 24.00% | - | - | 1997 | Dostert, Pierre Etienne. Africa 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997), pg. 174. | Estimates of % of population in principal religions, & est. 1997 total pop. |
| primal-indigenous | Kenya | - | 10.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions "; listed in table as "animism " |
| Protestant | Kenya | - | 38.00% | - | - | 1988 | Bratvold, Gretchen (ed). Kenya ...in Pictures (Visual Geography Series). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications Co. (1988), pg. 48. | "Protestants number 38%, Roman Catholics represent 28%, and supporters of traditional beliefs account for 26%. " |
| Protestant | Kenya | - | 47.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994) pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% "; Protestant "includes all non-Roman Catholic denominations " |
| Protestant | Kenya | 5,620,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year. Pg. 781-783. | Table: "Religion ": Divided by nations, with 2 columns: "Religious affiliation " & "1996 pop. " [of that religion]. Based on best avail. figures, whether census data, membership figures or estimates by analysts, as % of est. 1996 midyear pop. |
| Protestant | Kenya | 10,945,172 | 38.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Protestant (including Anglican) 38%, Roman Catholic 28%, indigenous beliefs 26%, other 8%; Total population: 28,803,085. |
| Protestant | Kenya | 10,360,000 | 37.00% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 1 - Africa. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 245-246. | "Location: Kenya; Population: 28 million "; "Kenya's religious heritage mirrors its ethnic history... The majority religion is Christianity, with about 37% Protestant (including Quakers) and 25% Roman Catholic; and 4% Muslim. " |
| Protestant | Kenya | - | 45.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Quaker | Kenya | 28,000 | - | - | - | 1957 | Spence, Hartzell. The Story of America's Religions; New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1960) [1st printing 1957], pg. 236. | "Today, the Friends have such a strong missionary program that Kenya colony, Africa, for example, has 28,000 Quakers. This is nearly 15 per cent of the world body of 194,022. " |
| Quaker | Kenya | - | - | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 1 - Africa. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 246. | "Kenya's religious heritage mirrors its ethnic history... The majority religion is Christianity, with about 37% Protestant (including Quakers) and 25% Roman Catholic; and 4% Muslim. " |
| Revival Fellowship | Kenya | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1998 | *LINK* official organization web site | directory of assemblies (or contacts?). This is the number of listings in a particular country, but I'm not sure it can be taken as a count of congregations. |
| Sabaot | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Sikhism | Kenya | - | - | 26 units |
- | 1993 | O'Brien, J. & M. Palmer. The State of Religion Atlas. Simon & Schuster: New York (1993). Pg 30-31. | Map: Number of Sikh gurdwaras ( "a gurdwara is both a place of worship and community centre ") |
| SIM International | Kenya | - | - | - | - | 1999 | *LINK* "Eastern Africa " in SIM NOW, Feb. 1999 (vol. #85); (viewed online 6 July 1999); SIM International web site. | "SIM came to Kenya in 1978 and today has missionaries serving in Ileret, Kapsabet, Mombasa, Nairobi, and Wajir. Included in SIM's ministries are evangelistic outreach efforts among the unreached Daasanach, Somali, and the Swahili-speaking Arabs along the coast... " |
| Somali | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Tenrikyo | Kenya | - | - | 2 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* official Tenrikyo web site; page: "A Statistical Review of Tenrikyo: 1 of 2 " (viewed 10 Dec. 1999) | Table: "A Statistical Review of Tenrikyo 1998 ". Church-supplied data. 2 church's overseas offices |
| Tenrikyo - graduated from Shuyoka | Kenya | 3 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* official Tenrikyo web site; page: "A Statistical Review of Tenrikyo: 2 of 2 " (viewed 10 Dec. 1999) | Table: "Statistics on followers who... graduated from Shuyoka... between Jan. and Dec. 1998. "; "Data by Research Section and Overseas Mission Department " |
| Tenrikyo - new Besseki Pledge | Kenya | 5 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* official Tenrikyo web site; page: "A Statistical Review of Tenrikyo: 2 of 2 " (viewed 10 Dec. 1999) | Table: "Statistics on followers who took the Besseki Pledge... between Jan. and Dec. 1998. "; "Data by Research Section and Overseas Mission Department " |
| Tenrikyo - received the Sazuke | Kenya | 4 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* official Tenrikyo web site; page: "A Statistical Review of Tenrikyo: 2 of 2 " (viewed 10 Dec. 1999) | Table: "Statistics on followers who... received the Sazuke... between Jan. and Dec. 1998. "; "Data by Research Section and Overseas Mission Department " |
| Terik | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Tugen | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Tuken | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Turkana | Kenya | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu>. New York: Walker Pub. (1995), pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Bahai Faith | Kiribati | - | 2.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994) pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% " |
| Bahai Faith | Kiribati | - | 5.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* web site: "Ethnologue Database " (viewed circa Dec. 1998) | "Religion: Christian 95%, Baha'i 5% " |
| Bahai Faith | Kiribati | - | - | - | - | 1999 | *LINK* Web site: "Kiribati "; web page: "Religion "; Originally by Jonathan Willis-Richards. This version edited by Mike Pearson. Viewed 31 May 1999. | "The major organized religion is Christianity, represented by a number of sects. A small percentage of the population follow the Bahai faith... Baha'i: Several % of the population are Baha'is... The Hawaii Baha'i Page containing some details of a major Baha'i conference held in Tarawa. " |
| Catholic | Kiribati | - | 53.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994) pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% " |