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| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unitarian/Unitarian Universalist | Arkansas | 582 | 0.02% | 6 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. More exclusive 'members': 463. [Listed as 'Unitarian Universalist Association.'] |
| Unitarian/Unitarian Universalist | Arkansas | - | 0.20% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| United Baptists | Arkansas | 1,514 | 0.06% | 20 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. More exclusive 'members': 1,210. [Listed as 'United Baptists.'] |
| United Church of Christ | Arkansas | 240 | 0.01% | 3 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. More exclusive 'members': 186. [Listed as 'United Church of Christ.'] |
| United Church of God | Arkansas | - | - | 6 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* official organization web site | Counted the churches in their listing. |
| United Methodist Church | Arkansas | 197,402 | 7.99% | 788 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. More exclusive 'members': 156,962. [Listed as 'United Methodist Church.'] |
| Unity Church | Arkansas | - | - | 10 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* official organization web site (viewed 1998) | Counted the churches in their directory. |
| Urantia Book Readers, Fellowship of | Arkansas | - | - | 2 units |
- | 1997 | *LINK* official organization web site (1998) | directory: "1996-1997 International Study Group Directory for readers of The Urantia Book " |
| Wesleyan Church | Arkansas | 273 | 0.01% | 4 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. More exclusive 'members': 130. [Listed as 'The Wesleyan Church.'] |
| white supremacist groups | Arkansas | - | - | 2 units |
- | 1992 | Thompson, S. E. Hate Groups. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books (1994), pg. 30. [Source: Klanwatch] | Map: "White Supremacist Groups in the U.S. in 1992 " Klan, Nazi, Skinheads and/or Other. |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod | Arkansas | 332 | 0.01% | 5 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. More exclusive 'members': 248. [Listed as 'Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.'] |
| Armenian | Armenia | 3,552,000 | 96.00% | - | - | 1996 | Kasbarian, Lucine. Armenia: A Rugged Land, An Enduring People (series: 'Discovering Our Heritage'). Parsippany, NJ: Dillon Press (1998), pg. 4. | "Population: Estimated 1996 population - 3.7 million... about 96 percent are ethnic Armenians; the rest are Russians, Kurds, and other minorities. " |
| Armenian Apostolic Church | Armenia | 1,155,000 | - | - | - | 1981 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 46. | "Armenian Church... in Soviet Armenia, where about a third of the world's approximately 3 1/2 million Armenians now live. Around 125,000 live in North America. " |
| Armenian Apostolic Church | Armenia | 3,540,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year. Pg. 781-783. | Table; Listed in table as "Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) " |
| Armenian Apostolic Church | Armenia | 3,478,000 | 94.00% | - | - | 1996 | Kasbarian, Lucine. Armenia: A Rugged Land, An Enduring People (series: 'Discovering Our Heritage'). Parsippany, NJ: Dillon Press (1998), pg. 4-5. | "Population: Estimated 1996 population - 3.7 million... Major Religion: Christian; 94 percent of Armenians belong to the Armenian Apostolic Church. " |
| Armenian Apostolic Church | Armenia | 3,227,611 | 94.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Armenian Orthodox 94%; Total population: 3,433,629. |
| Armenian Apostolic Church | Armenia | 3,478,000 | 94.00% | - | - | 1997 | Dhilawala, Sakina. Armenia (series: Cultures of the World). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1997), pg. 77. | "While the majority of the population of Armenia (about 94%) are members of the Armenian Apostolic Church... " |
| Armenian Apostolic Church | Armenia | 3,216,468 | 94.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook 1998 (viewed June 24, 1999) | Armenian Orthodox 94%; Total population: 3,421,775 (July 1998 est.) |
| Armenian Apostolic Church | Armenia | - | - | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 4 - Europe. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 42-43. | "Religions: Armenian Apostolic Church; some American Christian sects "; "In the late 20th century, the Armenian liturgy has changed little from its classical form, canonized in the Middle Ages. Not all Armenians are members of the Armenian Apostolic Church, partly due to the pressures of communism in Soviet Armenia, and the attraction of other Christian faiths in the diaspora. Nevertheless, the Armenian Church has played an important role in the preservation of Armenian history & culture. " |
| Armenian Apostolic Church | Armenia | 3,310,210 | 94.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Library of Congress Country Studies | "By official 1994 estimate, [total] population 3,521,517. Approximately 94 percent of population belongs to Armenian Apostolic Church. Other religions include Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant denominations, and Islam. " |
| attendance - weekly | Armenia | - | 8.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* web site: "The University of Michigan News and Information Services "; web page: "Study identifies worldwide rates of religiosity, church attendance " (viewed 17 April 1999). "News Release: December 10, 1997 " By Diane Swanbrow. | Table: weekly church attendance in various nations. "Source: Based on latest avail. data from... World Values surveys. Results with an asterisk are from the 1990-1991 survey; all others are from 1995-1997 survey. " |
| Baptist World Alliance | Armenia | 900 | 0.03% | 25 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* Baptist World Alliance web site; page: "BWA Statistics " (viewed 31 March 1999). | "Figures are for BWA affiliated conventions/unions only (no independents included). "; Table with 3 columns: Country, "Churches ", & "Members "; "1997/1998 Totals "; [BWA stats. in individual countries are sum of figures for member bodies of BWA in the countries.]; [County population figures for 1998 from United Nations data available here.] |
| Baptists of Armenia | Armenia | 900 | - | 25 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* Baptist World Alliance web site; page: "BWA Statistics " (viewed 31 March 1999). | "Figures are for BWA affiliated conventions/unions only (no independents included). "; Table with 3 columns: Country, "Churches ", & "Members "; "1997/1998 Totals "; [Listed in table as "The Baptists of Armenia "] |
| Catholic | Armenia | 141,000 | 3.70% | 18 units |
- | 1995 | 1998 Catholic Almanac: Our Sunday Visitor: USA (1997), pg. 333-367. | Figures are as of Dec. 31, 1995. Number used for "congregations " is from number of Catholic parishes. |
| Christianity | Armenia | - | - | - | - | 250 C.E. | Oxtoby, Willard G. The Meaning of Other Faiths. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press (1983), pg. 62. | "Although the kingdom of Armenia had been Christian from the mid-third century, the conversion of Constantine in the early fourth represents for us the shift of Christian fortunes to patronage. " |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Armenia | 200 | - | 6 units |
- | 1995 | Deseret News 1997-98 Church Almanac. Deseret News: Salt Lake City, UT (1996), pg. 188-408. | "Year-end 1995: Est. population [of country]; Members, [number shown in '# of adherents' column to left] " |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Armenia | 500 | 0.01% | 4 units |
- | 1997 | Deseret News 1999-2000 Church Almanac. Deseret News: Salt Lake City, UT (1998), pg. 267-410. | Information from a variety of sources. Figures for year-end 1997. |
| Islam | Armenia | 74,000 | 2.00% | - | - | 1997 | Dhilawala, Sakina. Armenia (series: Cultures of the World). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1997), pg. 77. | "The Muslim community in Armenia makes up one to two percent of the total population. Islam is practised by the Kurdish community and, to a lesser extent, by the Yezidis. " |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | Armenia | 4,569 | 0.13% | 36 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 | Armenia | 13,410 | 0.39% | - | - | 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 | Armenia | 200 | - | - | - | 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. " |
| Kurds | Armenia | 37,486 | - | - | - | 1970 | Chaliand, Gerard (ed). A People Without a Country: The Kurds and Kurdistan. New York: Olive Branch Press (1993 - revised first American edition), pg. 202-203. | "According to the 1970 General Census, there were 37,486 people in the Kurdish colony in Armenia. One-third lived in Erivan, and the rest in the twenty-two villages in the Alaguez and Talinn 'Kurdish district'...; there were also a few mixed villages, usually Kurdish and Azerbaijani, less often Kurdish and Armenian. " |
| Mithraism | Armenia | - | - | - | - | -100 B.C.E. | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 14). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970), pg. 1862. | "...in Armenia, where Mithras was again god of kings and feudalism. In a Mithraic ceremony, King Tiridates I submitted to the Roman Emperor Nero in the 1st century AD... Mithras was also the god of the kings of Commagene, in the south of Armenia. " |
| other | Armenia | 230,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year. Pg. 781-783. | Table; "other " = not Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox): "mostly Roman Catholic and Muslim " |
| other | Armenia | 222,000 | 6.00% | - | - | 1997 | Dhilawala, Sakina. Armenia (series: Cultures of the World). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1997), pg. 77. | "While the majority of the population of Armenia (about 94%) are members of the Armenian Apostolic Church, there is also a small community belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church. Apart from that, there are Yezidis who practice Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam, and small community of Jews. " |
| Russian Orthodox | Armenia | 129,500 | 3.50% | - | - | 1997 | Dhilawala, Sakina. Armenia (series: Cultures of the World). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1997), pg. 76-77. | "Members of the Russian Orthodox Church make up the largest religious minority in Armenia... "; Pg. 77: "...the population of Armenia (about 94%) are members of the Armenian Apostolic Church, [but] there is also a small community belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church... "; "...Muslim community makes up one or two percent of total population... " [Russian Orthodox would seem to be about 3 or 4% of pop.] |
| Yezidi | Armenia | - | - | - | - | 1970 | Chaliand, Gerard (ed). A People Without a Country: The Kurds and Kurdistan. New York: Olive Branch Press (1993 - revised first American edition), pg. 202-203. | "According to the 1970 General Census, there were 37,486 people in the Kurdish colony in Armenia. One-third lived in Erivan, and the rest in the twenty-two villages in the Alaguez and Talinn 'Kurdish district'...; there were also a few mixed villages, usually Kurdish and Azerbaijani, less often Kurdish and Armenian... The Kurds of Georgia and Armenia are mainly Yezidis. " |
| Yezidi | Armenia | 5,190 | - | - | - | 1989 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 828. | "The most recent census in Armenia, taken in 1989, counted 5,190 Yazidis in that country. " |
| Catholic | Aruba | - | 89.00% | - | - | 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% " |
| Catholic | Aruba | 56,000 | 80.00% | 8 units |
- | 1995 | 1998 Catholic Almanac: Our Sunday Visitor: USA (1997), pg. 333-367. | Figures are as of Dec. 31, 1995. Number used for "congregations " is from number of Catholic parishes. |
| Catholic | Aruba | 64,000 | - | - | - | 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. |
| Catholic | Aruba | 57,146 | 84.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Roman Catholic 82%, Protestant 8%, Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, Jewish; Total population: 68,031. |
| Catholic | Aruba | 56,026 | 82.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook 1998 (viewed June 24, 1999) | "Population: 68,325 (July 1998 est.)... Religions: Roman Catholic 82%, Protestant 8%, Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, Jewish " |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Aruba | 200 | - | 2 units |
- | 1995 | Deseret News 1997-98 Church Almanac. Deseret News: Salt Lake City, UT (1996), pg. 188-408. | "Year-end 1995: Est. population [of country]; Members, [number shown in '# of adherents' column to left] " |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Aruba | 200 | 0.31% | 2 units |
- | 1997 | Deseret News 1999-2000 Church Almanac. Deseret News: Salt Lake City, UT (1998), pg. 267-410. | Information from a variety of sources. Figures for year-end 1997. |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | Aruba | 295 | 0.44% | 5 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 | Aruba | 559 | 0.67% | 8 units |
- | 1997 | *LINK* official organization web site | Adherent/member count is for "1997 Peak Witnesses "; Memorial attendance (annual sacrament meeting) for same year: 1,832. |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | Aruba | 589 | 0.64% | 8 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 | Aruba | 927 | - | 5 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 | Aruba | 1,832 | 2.19% | 8 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 | Aruba | 1,804 | 1.96% | - | - | 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. |
| Nonreligious | Aruba | - | 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% " |
| other | Aruba | 9,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year. Pg. 781-783. | Table; "other " = not Roman Catholic |
| Protestant | Aruba | - | 9.00% | - | - | 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 | Aruba | 5,442 | 8.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Roman Catholic 82%, Protestant 8%, Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, Jewish; Total population: 68,031. |
| Protestant | Aruba | 5,466 | 8.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook 1998 (viewed June 24, 1999) | "Population: 68,325 (July 1998 est.)... Religions: Roman Catholic 82%, Protestant 8%, Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, Jewish " |
| Anglican | Asia | 707,000 | 0.02% | - | - | 1995 | The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997 (K-111 Reference Corp.: Mahwah, NJ) pg. 646. [Source: 1996 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year] | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1995 " |
| Anglican | Asia | 650,000 | 0.02% | - | - | 1996 | The World Almanac & Book of Facts 1998 (K-111 Reference Corp.: Mahwah, NJ) pg. 654. [Source: 1997 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year] | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1996 " |
| Anglican | Asia | 856,000 | 0.02% | - | - | 1998 | World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. Mahwah, NJ: PRIMEDIA Reference Inc. (1999), pg. 695. [Source: 1999 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year] | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1998 " |
| Aryan | Asia | - | - | - | - | -1500 B.C.E. | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 64. | "Aryan. A powerful group of Indo-European-speaking people who spread through Iran and Northern India in the first half of the second millennium B.C. Aryan is also the name given to the group of languages descended from the one spoken by this group, the modern representations of which include Farsi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Gujerati, and others... After the Aryans had settled in Iran for several centuries, a major cultural split occurred around 1500 B.C., resulting in the migration of a large subgroup through Afghanistan into India... Modern Hinduism is an especially interesting product of Aryan and Dravidian mutual assimilation. " |
| Assassins | Asia | - | - | - | - | 1100 C.E. | Cohen, Daniel. Cults. Brookfield, Connecticut: Millbrook Press (1994), pg. 34-35. | "The Assassins were a small breakaway group of Shia Muslims that began in Persia late in the eleventh century under the leadership of Hasan bin Sabbah. In 1090, Hasan and his followers captured the great and nearly impregnable fortress of Alamut, or Eagle's Nest. From there his influence spread through large portions of what is now Iran, Iraq, and Syria. " |
| Assassins | Asia | - | - | - | - | 1272 C.E. | *LINK* Hexham, Irving. Concise Dictionary of Religion. Carol Stream, USA: InterVarsity Press (1994). (v. online 6 Oct. 1999) | "ASSASSINS: the European name for members of a minor branch of the ISMAILI branch of ISLAM... they were associated with Syria... As a movement they were suppressed by the Mongols between 1256 and 1272. " |
| Atheism | Asia | 161,000,000 | - | - | - | 1994 | *LINK* web site: New Religious Movements (University of Virginia) (viewed 1998) [Orig. source:1994 World Almanac] | |
| Atheism | Asia | 174,174,000 | 5.04% | - | - | 1995 | The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997 (K-111 Reference Corp.: Mahwah, NJ) pg. 646. [Source: 1996 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year] | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1995 "; "Atheists: Persons professing atheism, skepticism, disbelief, or irreligion, including antireligious (opposed to all religion). " (Sep. figures for "Nonreligious ") |
| Atheism | Asia | 175,450,000 | 4.99% | - | - | 1996 | The World Almanac & Book of Facts 1998 (K-111 Reference Corp.: Mahwah, NJ) pg. 654. [Source: 1997 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year] | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1996 "; "Atheists: Persons professing atheism, skepticism, disbelief, or irreligion, including antireligious (opposed to all religion). " (Sep. figures for "Nonreligious ") |
| Atheism | Asia | 161,414,000 | 5.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "The Geography of Religion Website " (assembled by the students of Morehead State University, under Prof. Timothy C. Pitts); web page: "The Geography of Humanism " (viewed 2 March 1999); Markham, Ian S., (Editor), A World Religions Reader. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers (1996), pp. 356-357. | table with 3 columns: "Area "; "Adherents "; "Population Percentage "; "Secular Humanists are sometimes hard to classify, and perhaps even more difficult to obtain demographic data about. The following distribution lists two groups: Nonreligious and Atheists. Nonreligious are defined as persons professing no religion, nonbelievers, agnostics, freethinkers, and dereligionized secularists indifferent to all religion. Atheists are defined as persons professing atheism, skepticism, disbelief, or irreligion, including antireligious (opposed to all religion). "; [Asia is distinct from Eurasia in this table.] |
| Atheism | Asia | 121,451,000 | 3.38% | - | - | 1998 | World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. Mahwah, NJ: PRIMEDIA Reference Inc. (1999), pg. 695. [Source: 1999 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year] | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1998 "; "Atheists. Persons professing atheism, skepticism, disbelief, or irreligion, including antireligious (opposed to all religion). " |
| Bahai Faith | Asia | 699,002 | - | - | - | 1973 | MacEoin, Denis. "Baha'ism " in Hinnells, John R. (ed). A Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin Books: New York (1991) [reprint; 1st published in 1984], pg. 492. [Orig. source: Hampson, A. "The Growth and Spread of the Baha'i Faith "] | "Table 13.1: Statistics on Baha'ism "; "Estimated number of adherents (1973) " [Total is 399,002 for Asia excluding Iran, plus "estimates for Iran vary between 150,000 and 300,000 "] |
| Bahai Faith | Asia | - | - | 901 units |
- | 1994 | The Baha'is. Leicestershire, United Kingdom: Baha'i Publishing Trust of the U.K. (1994; 1st ed. 1992), pg. 7. | Table: Statistics of the Baha'i world community "; Figures taken from column: "Local Spiritual Assemblies "; Five locations listed: Africa, Americas, [Oceania], Asia, Europe |
| Bahai Faith | Asia | 3,010,000 | 0.09% | - | - | 1995 | The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997 (K-111 Reference Corp.: Mahwah, NJ) pg. 646. [Source: 1996 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year] | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1995 " |
| Bahai Faith | Asia | 3,230,000 | 0.09% | - | - | 1996 | The World Almanac & Book of Facts 1998 (K-111 Reference Corp.: Mahwah, NJ) pg. 654. [Source: 1997 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year] | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1996 " |
| Bahai Faith | Asia | 3,260,000 | 0.09% | - | - | 1998 | World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. Mahwah, NJ: PRIMEDIA Reference Inc. (1999), pg. 695. [Source: 1999 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year] | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1998 " |
| Baptist World Alliance | Asia | 3,336,362 | - | 20,505 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* Baptist World Alliance web site; page: "BWA Statistics " (viewed 31 March 1999). | "Figures are for BWA affiliated conventions/unions only (no independents included). "; Table with 3 columns: Country, "Churches ", & "Members "; "1997/1998 Totals " |
| Buddhism | Asia | - | - | - | - | -237 B.C.E. | Welty, Paul Thomas. The Asians: Their Heritage and Their Destiny (Revised Edition). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. (1966), pg. 77. | "Buddhism spread rapidly after the Buddha's death. Asoka (296-237 B.C.), a famous India emperor who was converted to Buddhism, devoted a greater part of his life to the propogation of Buddhist doctrines. He sent missionaries to many parts of the world. Gradually, all India and the neighboring island of Ceylon were converted. Then Buddhism spread eastward and southeastward to the present lands of Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indonesia. It entered China during the first century of the Christian century A.D., Buddhism entrenched itself in Japan with the conversion of Prince Shotoku Taishi. " |
| Buddhism | Asia | 500,000,000 | - | - | - | 1958 | Welles, Sam. The World's Great Religions, New York: Western Publishing Co. (1972). [11th printing; original edition: 1958]. Pg. 9. | "While Buddhism has now almost vanished from its native India, it may have as many as 500 million followers in the rest of Asia. " |
