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| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonreligious | Australia | - | 13.00% | - | - | 1986 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 290. | "The 1986 Australian census of religious affiliation reported that 12% refused to answer and 13% reported no religion. " |
| Nonreligious | Australia | - | 26.00% | - | - | 1991 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 44. | "The 1991 census also showed that while 74% of adults believed in God, 26% stated that they were of 'no religion.' " |
| Nonreligious | Australia | 2,176,600 | 12.90% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* Government statistics web site (viewed circa Nov. 1998) | |
| Nonreligious | Australia | - | 13.00% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web page (1998): Radio National Transcripts: The Religion Report: "Religious Life in Australia " (Wednesday, 23 July, 1997.) [Discussion of results of 1997 Australian nationwide census, bases on self-identification.] | Garry Bouma: "There's been some interesting changes in this last census from the previous [national census] in 1991... The nones - those who declare themselves to have no religion - have moved up from nearly 13% to almost 16-and-a-half percent, which is a fairly large shift. " |
| Nonreligious | Australia | - | 13.00% | - | - | 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% " |
| Nonreligious | Australia | 2,360,000 | - | - | - | 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. |
| Nonreligious | Australia | 2,970,000 | 16.50% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS). "Australia: Statistics Show Australians Religious Affiliation " in ACNS #1315, 3 Sept. 1997 [97.8.5.2] (viewed online 24 June 1999). | "According to figures recently released by the Australian government's Bureau of Statistics... of Australia's nearly 18 million people... statistics... from the nation's latest census in 1996 [which] includes the question: 'What is your religion?'... The figures from the latest census show a slight decline in religious identification from the figure of 76.6% in 1991; 16.5% now claim to have 'no religion', but only 0.04% describe themselves as 'atheists'. " |
| Nonreligious | Australia | 2,948,900 | 16.60% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Government statistics web site (viewed circa Nov. 1998) | |
| Nonreligious | Australia | 2,927,139 | 16.36% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. "In the 1996 Census, respondents were asked to mark one of the seven specified religions (Catholic, Anglican, Uniting Church, Presbyterian, Greek Orthodox, Baptist, or Lutheran) or to specify a particular religion. Persons with no religion were asked to mark the no religion box. " [This figure is from those who marked the "no religion box ".] |
| Nonreligious | Australia | - | 16.50% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* web page (1998): Radio National Transcripts: The Religion Report: "Religious Life in Australia " (Wednesday, 23 July, 1997.) [Discussion of results of 1997 Australian nationwide census, bases on self-identification.] | Garry Bouma: "There's been some interesting changes in this last census from the previous [national census] in 1991... The nones - those who declare themselves to have no religion - have moved up from nearly 13% to almost 16-and-a-half percent, which is a fairly large shift. " |
| Nonreligious | Australia | - | 26.50% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Nonreligious | Australia | 1,000,000 | 5.56% | - | - | 1999 | Dolce, Laura. Australia ( "Major World Nations " book series). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers (1999), pg. 63, 72. | Pg. 63: "...Australia's more than 18 million citizens... "; Pg. 72: "In addition, an increasing number of Australians profess no religion at all -- more than 1 million of them. " |
| Ordo Sinistra Vivendi | Australia | - | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Ireland, Rowan. Web site: La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia; web page: "New Religious Associations in Australia ", written January 1998. (Viewed 4 July 1999). | "The Ordo Sinistra Vivendi is an esoteric Order of the Western Tradition. Its goal is a new and vital Western Imperium by way of the Galactic Aeon. Members seek to restore balance to both the individual and the societies of Western Civilisation. They oppose those creeds, political and religious, which seek to undermine the Western peoples. The Order consists of men and women who are bound by their personal destinies to progress (in times past this was the original meaning of the word evil: to go beyond measure) to the next step in human evolution. Traditional Satanism offers an understanding of the forces that create and shape change in the phenomenal world. Members of Ordo Sinistra Vivendi believe that they are able to understand the reality of carnal existence because they are not constrained by the abstract moralities of the rest of Humanity. They believe this to be the essence of Heresy, the way of the Prince of Darkness. " |
| Ordo Templi Orientis | Australia | - | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Ireland, Rowan. Web site: La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia; web page: "New Religious Associations in Australia ", written January 1998. (Viewed 4 July 1999). | "The O.T.O. was first established in Australia in 1915 under the leadership of Frank Bennett, a devoted student of Aleister Crowley. However the organisation had more or less ceased activities by the mid-late 1920s, and closed with Bennett's death in 1930. It was reestablished in Australia and New Zealand (jointly) in the early 1980s. In 1990 the O.T.O. incorporated as a New South Wales Association. In 1994 it registered as an Australian Registrable Body, and it was recognised as a tax exempt religious institution. " |
| Oriental Orthodox Churches - not specified | Australia | 504 | 0.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [This figure combines "Oriental Christian not elsewhere classified " (498) and "Oriental Christian not further defined " (6)] |
| Orthodox (Eastern Christian) | Australia | 427,400 | - | - | - | 1986 | *LINK* web site: "Growth of Religions in Australia and New South Wales 1986-1996 " | Table "Australia " [growth of religion in Australia, 1986-1996]; "Prepared by the Buddhist Council of New South Wales from census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics "; "1986 adherents " |
| Orthodox (Eastern Christian) | Australia | 474,921 | - | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Growth of Religions in Australia and New South Wales 1986-1996 " | Table "Australia " [growth of religion in Australia, 1986-1996]; "Prepared by the Buddhist Council of New South Wales from census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics "; "1991 adherents " |
| Orthodox (Eastern Christian) | Australia | 520,000 | - | - | - | 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. |
| Orthodox (Eastern Christian) | Australia | 528,345 | 295.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Categories combined for this figure: Greek Orthodox, Macedonian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Orthodox not further defined, Russian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, Antiochian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, Orthodox not elsewhere classified, Albanian Orthodox, Syrian (Jacobite) Church; Oriental Christian not further defined, Oriental Christian not elsewhere classified] |
| Orthodox (Eastern Christian) | Australia | 497,015 | 2.78% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Growth of Religions in Australia and New South Wales 1986-1996 " | Table "Australia " [growth of religion in Australia, 1986-1996]; "Prepared by the Buddhist Council of New South Wales from census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics "; "1996 adherents " [based on 12,582,764 adherents of Christianity equalling 70.3% of total pop., total population = 17,898,669] |
| other | Australia | 2,550,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year. Pg. 781-783. | Table; "other " = NOT Roman Catholic, Anglican, Uniting Church in Australia, Presbyterian, Protestant-other, Orthodox or nonreligious |
| other | Australia | 4,320,000 | 24.00% | - | - | 1997 | Meisel, Jacqueline Drobis. Australia: The Land Down Under (series: Exploring Cultures of the World). New York: Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish (1997), pg. 60. | "Population: 18 million... Religion... Protestant (Church of England), 26%; Roman Catholic, 26%; other Christian faiths, 24%; the rest belong to Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Aboriginal faiths. " |
| paganism | Australia | 4,353 | 0.02% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. Listed in table as "Paganism ", distinct from other Neo-Pagan categories: "Wiccan/Witchcraft ", "Satanism ", and also distinct from "Animism "] |
| Pan Pacific Pagan Alliance | Australia | 250 | - | 7 units |
- | 1981 | *LINK* Ireland, Rowan. Web site: La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia; web page: "New Religious Associations in Australia ", written January 1998. (Viewed 4 July 1999). | "Pan Pacific Pagan Alliance (also known as Australian Pagan Alliance): The Pan Pacific Pagan Alliance, commonly known as the Pagan Alliance, is a religious association. It was founded in Sydney, Australia in 1991 by Julia Phillips. The Alliance now has seven centres in Australia with approximately 250 members... " |
| Pantheism | Australia | 835 | 0.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Listed in table as "Pantheism "] |
| Path of the Heart Movement | Australia | - | - | 3 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* Ireland, Rowan. Web site: La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia; web page: "New Religious Associations in Australia ", written January 1998. (Viewed 4 July 1999). | "The Path of the Heart Movement now has three centres in Australia and four worldwide. " |
| Pentecostal | Australia | - | 0.00% | - | - | 1947 | *LINK* Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS). "Australia: Statistics Show Australians Religious Affiliation " in ACNS #1315, 3 Sept. 1997 [97.8.5.2] (viewed online 24 June 1999). | "Since 1947 there has been great change in the religious composition of Australian society due to immigration and to conversion. Then, Anglicans were the biggest group - with 39% - and Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and Pentecostals were undetectable. " [national census data] |
| Pentecostal | Australia | 107,000 | - | - | - | 1986 | *LINK* web site: "Growth of Religions in Australia and New South Wales 1986-1996 " | Table "Australia " [growth of religion in Australia, 1986-1996]; "Prepared by the Buddhist Council of New South Wales from census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics "; "1986 adherents " |
| Pentecostal | Australia | 150,600 | 0.90% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* Government statistics web site (viewed circa Nov. 1998) | |
| Pentecostal | Australia | 150,665 | - | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Growth of Religions in Australia and New South Wales 1986-1996 " | Table "Australia " [growth of religion in Australia, 1986-1996]; "Prepared by the Buddhist Council of New South Wales from census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics "; "1991 adherents " |
| Pentecostal | Australia | 174,700 | 1.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Government statistics web site (viewed circa Nov. 1998) | |
| Pentecostal | Australia | 145,754 | 0.81% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Categories combined for this figure: Pentecostal not further defined (76,216), Assemblies of God (61,763), Pentecostal not elsewhere classified (5,517), United Pentecostal (712), Foursquare (1,546)] |
| Pentecostal | Australia | 174,720 | 0.98% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Growth of Religions in Australia and New South Wales 1986-1996 " | Table "Australia " [growth of religion in Australia, 1986-1996]; "Prepared by the Buddhist Council of New South Wales from census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics "; "1996 adherents " [based on 12,582,764 adherents of Christianity equalling 70.3% of total pop., total population = 17,898,669] |
| PL Kyodan | Australia | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1999 | *LINK* Official web site of PL Kyodan; web page: "PL Church Directory in Europe and Oceania " (viewed 11 April 1999). | Counted churches listed on directory. "Brisbane, Australia; 76 Dairy Swamp Road, Belmont, Qld 4153 Australia " |
| Plymouth Brethren | Australia | - | - | 261 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* web page: "'Plymouth Brethren' FAQ "; "Author: Shawn Abigail; November1998; Version 1.6.1 " | The Australian periodical Tidings lists 261 assemblies in their country. |
| poll - believe in God | Australia | - | 74.00% | - | - | 1991 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 44. | "The 1991 census also showed that while 74% of adults believed in God, 26% stated that they were of 'no religion.' " |
| poll - say religion fairly important to them | Australia | - | 33.00% | - | - | 1976 | Social Indicators 1976: Selected Data on Social Conditions & Trends in the U.S.. Census Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Commerce: Washington, D.C. (Dec. 1977), pg. 555. [Orig. source: American Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup Poll), Religion in America, 1976.] | Table: "Importance of Religious Beliefs in Selected Countries: 1975-76 "; Respondents who say their religious beliefs are: (1) Not at all important, (2) Not too important, (3) Fairly important, (4) Very important. |
| poll - say religion not at all important to them | Australia | - | 13.00% | - | - | 1976 | Social Indicators 1976: Selected Data on Social Conditions & Trends in the U.S.. Census Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Commerce: Washington, D.C. (Dec. 1977), pg. 555. [Orig. source: American Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup Poll), Religion in America, 1976.] | Table: "Importance of Religious Beliefs in Selected Countries: 1975-76 "; Respondents who say their religious beliefs are: (1) Not at all important, (2) Not too important, (3) Fairly important, (4) Very important. |
| poll - say religion not too important to them | Australia | - | 29.00% | - | - | 1976 | Social Indicators 1976: Selected Data on Social Conditions & Trends in the U.S.. Census Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Commerce: Washington, D.C. (Dec. 1977), pg. 555. [Orig. source: American Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup Poll), Religion in America, 1976.] | Table: "Importance of Religious Beliefs in Selected Countries: 1975-76 "; Respondents who say their religious beliefs are: (1) Not at all important, (2) Not too important, (3) Fairly important, (4) Very important. |
| poll - say religion very important to them | Australia | - | 25.00% | - | - | 1975 | Popenoe, David. Sociology (5th Ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1983), pg. 449. [Orig. source: Public Opinion, March/May 1979, p. 38. Surveys by Gallup International. Research Institute for Charles F. Kettering Foundation, 1974-1975, for foreign data; American Instittue of Public Opinion (Gallup) for US data.] | "Graph: Strength of Religious Feeling: A Cross-National Comparison "; "Question: How important are your religious beliefs--very important, not too important, or not at all important? "; Graph shows percentage answering "Very important " |
| poll - say religion very important to them | Australia | - | 25.00% | - | - | 1976 | Social Indicators 1976: Selected Data on Social Conditions & Trends in the U.S.. Census Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Commerce: Washington, D.C. (Dec. 1977), pg. 555. [Orig. source: American Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup Poll), Religion in America, 1976.] | Table: "Importance of Religious Beliefs in Selected Countries: 1975-76 "; Respondents who say their religious beliefs are: (1) Not at all important, (2) Not too important, (3) Fairly important, (4) Very important. |
| polygamy | Australia | - | - | - | - | 1800 | Luling, Virginia. Aborigines. Morristown, N.J.: Macdonald Educational Ltd. (1979), pg. 30. | "[Aboriginal] Men might have more than one wife. In some places, important older men had six or more. But most had only one at a time. " |
| Presbyterian | Australia | 700,000 | - | - | - | 1945 | Ferm, Vergilius (ed.). An Encyclopedia of Religion; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (1976), pg. 606. [1st pub. in 1945 by Philosophical Library. 1976 reprint is unrevised.] | "In Australia, the Presbyterians number about 700,000, and in New Zealand nearly 400,000. " |
| Presbyterian | Australia | 105,000 | - | - | - | 1973 | Zehavi, A.M. (editor) Handbook of the World's Religions. New York: Franklin Watts (1973), pg. 23. | "Presbyterianism is found in some strength also in Australia (105,000) and in New Zealand (70,000). " |
| Presbyterian | Australia | 560,000 | - | - | - | 1986 | *LINK* web site: "Growth of Religions in Australia and New South Wales 1986-1996 " | Table "Australia " [growth of religion in Australia, 1986-1996]; "Prepared by the Buddhist Council of New South Wales from census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics "; "1986 adherents " |
| Presbyterian | Australia | 732,227 | - | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Growth of Religions in Australia and New South Wales 1986-1996 " | Table "Australia " [growth of religion in Australia, 1986-1996]; "Prepared by the Buddhist Council of New South Wales from census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics "; "1991 adherents " |
| Presbyterian | Australia | 790,000 | - | - | - | 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. |
| Presbyterian | Australia | 662,685 | 3.70% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. "In the 1996 Census, respondents were asked to mark one of the seven specified religions (Catholic, Anglican, Uniting Church, Presbyterian, Greek Orthodox, Baptist, or Lutheran) or to specify a particular religion. Persons with no religion were asked to mark the no religion box. " |
| Presbyterian | Australia | 675,534 | 3.77% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Growth of Religions in Australia and New South Wales 1986-1996 " | Table "Australia " [growth of religion in Australia, 1986-1996]; "Prepared by the Buddhist Council of New South Wales from census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics "; "1996 adherents " [based on 12,582,764 adherents of Christianity equalling 70.3% of total pop., total population = 17,898,669] |
| Presbyterian/Reformed | Australia | 732,000 | 4.30% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* Government statistics web site (viewed circa Nov. 1998) | Listed in table as "Presbyterian & Reformed " |
| Presbyterian/Reformed | Australia | 675,500 | 3.80% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Government statistics web site (viewed circa Nov. 1998) | Listed in table as "Presbyterian & Reformed " |
| Presbyterian/Reformed | Australia | 675,534 | 378.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Categories combined for this figure: Presbyterian (662,685); "Presbyterian & Reformed not further defined " (39); Free Reformed (2,832); Reformed (9,978)] |
| Protestant | Australia | 4,000,000 | 25.00% | - | - | 1987 | Stark, Al. Australia: A Lucky Land (series: Discovering Our Heritage). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Dillon Press (1987), pg. 10-11. | "...population... just over 16 million... religion for most Australians plays a minor role in day-to-day life. Formally 36% of the population is Anglican... Other Protestant groups make up about 25% of the population... " |
| Protestant | Australia | - | 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 | Australia | - | 38.00% | - | - | 1992 | Wolff, Michael. Where We Stand: Can America Make it in the Global Race for Wealth, Health, and Happiness? Bantam Books: New York (1992). Pg. 204-205. | Chart |
| Protestant | Australia | 3,020,011 | 16.88% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Includes Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Apostolics (Apostolic Church of Australia, Apostolic Church of Queensland, New Apostolic Church, "Apostolic Church, so described "), Brethren, "Born Again Christian ", Christian Outreach Centres, Quakers, Revival Crusade, Churches of Christ, "Church of Christ (Non-denominational) ", Congregational, Baptist, Lutheran, RLDS, Reformed, Presbyterian, Bethesda Churches, International Church of Christ, "Other Protestant not elsewhere classified " (2,448), "Other Protestant not further defined " (17,414), Worldwide Church of God, Seventh-day Adventists, Salvation Army, Wesleyan Methodist Church, United Pentecostal, etc. Does not include Anglicans, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Christadelphians, Eastern Orthodox, Christian Scientists, and a few other minor non-Protestant Christian groups.] |
| Protestant | Australia | - | 39.50% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Protestant - other | Australia | 9,760,000 | 61.00% | - | - | 1987 | Stark, Al. Australia: A Lucky Land (series: Discovering Our Heritage). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Dillon Press (1987), pg. 10-11. | "...population... just over 16 million... Formally 36% of the population is Anglican... Other Protestant groups make up about 25% of the population... " |
| Protestant - other | Australia | 1,200,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year. Pg. 781-783. | Table; Protestant-other = NOT Anglican, Presbyterian, Orthodox or Uniting Church in Australia |
| Protestant - other | Australia | 4,320,000 | 24.00% | - | - | 1997 | Meisel, Jacqueline Drobis. Australia: The Land Down Under (series: Exploring Cultures of the World). New York: Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish (1997), pg. 60. | "Population: 18 million... Religion... Protestant (Church of England), 26%; Roman Catholic, 26%; other Christian faiths, 24%; the rest belong to Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Aboriginal faiths. " |
| Quaker | Australia | 1,815 | 0.01% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Listed in table as "Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) "] |
| Raelian | Australia | - | - | - | - | 1992 | *LINK* Ireland, Rowan. Web site: La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia; web page: "New Religious Associations in Australia ", written January 1998. (Viewed 4 July 1999). | "The International Raelian Movement was founded in France in 1973... There have been members of the Raelian Movement in Australia since 1992. " |
| Rastafarian | Australia | 1,023 | 0.01% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. |
| Ratana | Australia | 2,348 | 0.01% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. |
| Rationalism | Australia | 1,380 | 0.01% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Listed in table as "Rationalism ", a category separate from other traditionally non-theistic groups such as Agnosticism, Atheism, Humanism, No Religion, etc. These are people who specifically wrote down or chose "Rationalism " as their religion.] |
| Reformed | Australia | 9,978 | 0.06% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Listed in table as "Reformed ", distinctly written down rather than "Presbyterian ", one of the main choices available.] |
| Reformed Churches of Australia | Australia | - | - | 40 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* Web site: "Reformed Churches of Australia "; Section: "General Info " | "There are over 40 congregations of the Reformed Churches of Australia, offering fellowship and worship. All congregations have a Pastor or some other person who can help you if you need to contact them. " |
| religious | Australia | - | 76.60% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS). "Australia: Statistics Show Australians Religious Affiliation " in ACNS #1315, 3 Sept. 1997 [97.8.5.2] (viewed online 24 June 1999). | "According to figures recently released by the Australian government's Bureau of Statistics... of Australia's nearly 18 million people... statistics... from the nation's latest census in 1996 [which] includes the question: 'What is your religion?'... The figures from the latest census show a slight decline in religious identification from the figure of 76.6% in 1991; 16.5% now claim to have 'no religion', but only 0.04% describe themselves as 'atheists'. " |
| religious | Australia | 13,284,000 | 73.80% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS). "Australia: Statistics Show Australians Religious Affiliation " in ACNS #1315, 3 Sept. 1997 [97.8.5.2] (viewed online 24 June 1999). | "According to figures recently released by the Australian government's Bureau of Statistics, 73.8% of Australia's nearly 18 million people identify with some religious group, and 70% identify with a Christian group. The statistics are the result of the government's analysis of information from the nation's latest census in 1996. A census is taken every five years, and includes the question: 'What is your religion?' " |
| Religious Science | Australia | 634 | 0.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Lsted in category as "Religious Science "] |
| Revival Centres | Australia | 4,877 | 0.03% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Listed in table as "Revival Centres "] |
| Revival Crusade | Australia | 4,444 | 0.02% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Listed in table as "Christian Revival Crusade "] |
| Revival Fellowship | Australia | - | - | 50 units |
- | 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. |
| Rhema Family Church | Australia | 212 | 0.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. |
| Romanian Orthodox | Australia | 1,056 | 0.01% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. |
