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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 | California: Los Angeles County | 1,139,200 | 12.80% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total LA County pop: 8.9 million. [In table, this group is called "Agnostic & Nonreligious "] |
| Orthodox (Eastern Christian) | California: Los Angeles County | 44,500 | 0.50% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total LA County pop: 8.9 million. |
| Pentecostal | California: Los Angeles County | 115,700 | 1.30% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, 1990. (Pentecostal here includes Assemblies of God) Total LA County pop: 8.9 million. |
| Presbyterian | California: Los Angeles County | 195,800 | 2.20% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total LA County pop: 8.9 million. |
| Protestant | California: Los Angeles County | 3,079,400 | 34.60% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Self-identification. Total LA County pop: 8.9 million. Strictly defined Protestants. Does NOT include LDS (Mormons), Jehovah's Witnesses, Orthodox Christian (Eastern), Unitarians. |
| Protestant - other | California: Los Angeles County | 970,100 | 10.90% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Self-identification. Total LA County pop: 8.9 million. Includes Protestants NOT in: Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, & Episcopalian. |
| Unitarian/Unitarian Universalist | California: Los Angeles County | 35,600 | 0.40% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total LA County pop: 8.9 million. |
| Acts Full Gospel Church | California: Oakland | 2,100 | - | 1 unit |
- | 1992 | *LINK* Thumma, Scott. web site: "Megachurches in the U.S. " (viewed Aug. 20, 1999; data collected 1992; last updated Aug. 19, 1999). Center for Social & Religious Research, Hartford Seminary. | Table; "size " is avg. weekly attendance. Study finding all U.S. megachurches. |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - temples | California: Oakland | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1996 | Deseret News 1997-98 Church Almanac. Deseret News: Salt Lake City, UT (1996), pg. 435-436. | Table: "Temples of the Church "; Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego |
| megachurches | California: Oakland | 4,500 | - | 2 units |
- | 1992 | *LINK* Thumma, Scott. web site: "Megachurches in the U.S. " (viewed Aug. 20, 1999; data collected 1992; last updated Aug. 19, 1999). Center for Social & Religious Research, Hartford Seminary. | Table, grouped by state, columns for city, state, "size " (avg. weekly attendance), etc. From study finding all U.S. megachurches (congreg. w/ "consistent weekly attendance of at least 2,000 persons "). |
| PL Kyodan | California: Oakland | - | - | 3 units |
- | 1999 | *LINK* Official web site of PL Kyodan; web page: "North American Church Directory Menu " (viewed 11 April 1999). | Counted listings in directory: San Francisco Bay Area: San Francisco; Oakland (Hayward, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto) |
| Salvation Army - Japanese corps | California: Oakland | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1923 | McKinley, Edward H. Marching to Glory: The History of the Salvation Army in the United States of America, 1880-1980. San Francisco: Harper & Row (1980), pg. 130. | "A Japanese post was opened in Seattle in 1922, and in Oakland in 1923. " [Oakland was fifth in California, after San Francisco, Fresno, L.A. and Stockton were opened in 1919.] |
| Siddha Yoga | California: Oakland | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 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. 319-320. | "...American religious movements even thought their teachings... are traditionally Hindu. The following are some better-known examples of these missionaries and their movements... Others... Swami Muktananda (b. 1908) teaches Siddha Yoga and travels between his Indian center in Ganeshpuri and his American center in Oakland. " |
| Alternative Religions | California: Orange County | 12,000 | 0.50% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Baptist | California: Orange County | 148,800 | 6.20% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Catholic | California: Orange County | 703,200 | 29.30% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Christianity | California: Orange County | 1,910,400 | 79.60% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | California: Orange County | 72,960 | 3.04% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total area pop: 2.1 million. Table has data for "Latter Day Saints, " meaning all LDS denominations. But U.S. splinter LDS (outside the main SLC-based church) number only about 125,000, primarily RLDS. 125,000 / 2,487,000 (Kosmin U.S. total LDS) = 5%. Multiply state LDS totals by 95% to get Ch. of Jesus Christ of LDS estimates. |
| East Asian religions | California: Orange County | 19,200 | 0.80% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews; Graduate School of City University of NT, 1990. Listed as "Eastern Religions. " Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Episcopalian | California: Orange County | 33,600 | 1.40% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Islam | California: Orange County | 36,000 | 1.50% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | California: Orange County | 9,600 | 0.40% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Judaism | California: Orange County | 64,800 | 2.70% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Latter Day Saints | California: Orange County | 76,800 | 3.20% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Lutheran | California: Orange County | 120,000 | 5.00% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Methodist | California: Orange County | 98,400 | 4.10% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Nonreligious | California: Orange County | 278,400 | 11.60% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. [In table, this group is called "Agnostic & Nonreligious "] |
| Orthodox (Eastern Christian) | California: Orange County | 7,200 | 0.30% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Pentecostal | California: Orange County | 16,800 | 0.70% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, 1990. (Pentecostal here includes Assemblies of God) Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Presbyterian | California: Orange County | 110,400 | 4.60% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| Protestant | California: Orange County | 902,400 | 37.60% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Calif. Metro. Areas ". Self-identification. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. Strictly defined Protestants. Does NOT include LDS (Mormons), Jehovah's Witnesses, Orthodox Christian (Eastern), Unitarians. |
| Protestant - other | California: Orange County | 374,400 | 15.60% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Self-identification. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. Includes Protestants NOT in: Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, & Episcopalian. |
| Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyodan | California: Orange County | 200 | - | - | - | 1999 | *LINK* McGraw, Carol. "Spreading the light " in The Orange County Register, Aug. 1, 1999 (viewed online 4 Aug. 1999). | "The faithful, members of Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyoda... Japanese devotees, some of them students from nearby University of California, Irvine, predominate. But there are Anglos, Hispanics and others in the crowd. There are 200 members locally, and 50,000 worldwide. " |
| Unitarian/Unitarian Universalist | California: Orange County | 9,600 | 0.40% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Orange County pop: 2.4 million. |
| megachurches | California: Sacramento | 5,500 | - | 1 unit |
- | 1992 | *LINK* Thumma, Scott. web site: "Megachurches in the U.S. " (viewed Aug. 20, 1999; data collected 1992; last updated Aug. 19, 1999). Center for Social & Religious Research, Hartford Seminary. | Table, grouped by state, columns for city, state, "size " (avg. weekly attendance), etc. From study finding all U.S. megachurches (congreg. w/ "consistent weekly attendance of at least 2,000 persons "). |
| Native Americans | California: Sacramento | 17,021 | - | - | - | 1990 | Utter, Jack. American Indians: Answers to Today's Questions. Lake Ann, MI: National Woodlands Publishing Co. (1993), pg. 22. | Table: Metropolitan statistical areas with highest Indian populations. Data from 1990 U.S. Census. Includes Alaska natives. |
| Salvation Army - Japanese corps | California: Sacramento | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1920 | McKinley, Edward H. Marching to Glory: The History of the Salvation Army in the United States of America, 1880-1980. San Francisco: Harper & Row (1980), pg. 130. | "[Japanese] Corps were opened in Sacramento in 1920... A Japanese post was opened in Seattle in 1922, and in Oakland in 1923. " [Sacramento was fifth in California, after San Francisco, Fresno, L.A. and Stockton were opened in 1919.] |
| Baptist | California: San Diego | - | - | 8 units |
- | 1945 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988), pg. 27. | "In San Diego, only 8 Baptist churches had been present in 1945; by 1960, 1 had died and 11 new ones had been born. " |
| Baptist | California: San Diego | - | - | 18 units |
- | 1960 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988), pg. 27. | "In San Diego, only 8 Baptist churches had been present in 1945; by 1960, 1 had died and 11 new ones had been born. " |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - temples | California: San Diego | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1996 | Deseret News 1997-98 Church Almanac. Deseret News: Salt Lake City, UT (1996), pg. 435-436. | Table: "Temples of the Church "; Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego |
| megachurches | California: San Diego | 12,465 | - | 4 units |
- | 1992 | *LINK* Thumma, Scott. web site: "Megachurches in the U.S. " (viewed Aug. 20, 1999; data collected 1992; last updated Aug. 19, 1999). Center for Social & Religious Research, Hartford Seminary. | Table, grouped by state, columns for city, state, "size " (avg. weekly attendance), etc. From study finding all U.S. megachurches (congreg. w/ "consistent weekly attendance of at least 2,000 persons "). |
| Native Americans | California: San Diego | 20,066 | - | - | - | 1990 | Utter, Jack. American Indians: Answers to Today's Questions. Lake Ann, MI: National Woodlands Publishing Co. (1993), pg. 22. | Table: Metropolitan statistical areas with highest Indian populations. Data from 1990 U.S. Census. Includes Alaska natives. |
| unmarried couples living together | California: San Diego | - | 9.30% | - | - | 1990 | Witt, Lynn; S. Thomas & Eric Marcus (ed.) Out in All Directions: A Treasury of Gay and Lesbian America. New York: Warner Books (1995), pg. 365. | Table. "1990 Census... unmarried couples living together in the largest 20 cities follows. " |
| Alternative Religions | California: San Diego County | 12,500 | 0.50% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Baptist | California: San Diego County | 247,500 | 9.90% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Catholic | California: San Diego County | 690,000 | 27.60% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Christianity | California: San Diego County | 1,992,500 | 79.70% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | California: San Diego County | 40,375 | 1.62% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total area pop: 2.1 million. Table has data for "Latter Day Saints, " meaning all LDS denominations. But U.S. splinter LDS (outside the main SLC-based church) number only about 125,000, primarily RLDS. 125,000 / 2,487,000 (Kosmin U.S. total LDS) = 5%. Multiply state LDS totals by 95% to get Ch. of Jesus Christ of LDS estimates. |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | California: San Diego County | 46,000 | - | 116 units |
- | 1998 | Clark, Dan B. "Reaching Out in San Diego " in Ensign (Dec. 1998), pg. 70. | "Now, 151 years later, more than 46,000 members are flourishing in 17 stakes and 116 wards and branches in San Diego County. " |
| East Asian religions | California: San Diego County | 12,500 | 0.50% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews; Graduate School of City University of NT, 1990. Listed as "Eastern Religions. " Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Episcopalian | California: San Diego County | 72,500 | 2.90% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Islam | California: San Diego County | 12,500 | 0.50% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | California: San Diego County | 20,000 | 0.80% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Judaism | California: San Diego County | 47,500 | 1.90% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Latter Day Saints | California: San Diego County | 42,500 | 1.70% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Lutheran | California: San Diego County | 102,500 | 4.10% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Methodist | California: San Diego County | 172,500 | 6.90% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Nonreligious | California: San Diego County | 322,500 | 12.90% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. [In table, this group is called "Agnostic & Nonreligious "] |
| Orthodox (Eastern Christian) | California: San Diego County | 5,000 | 0.20% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Pentecostal | California: San Diego County | 40,000 | 1.60% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, 1990. (Pentecostal here includes Assemblies of God) Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Presbyterian | California: San Diego County | 72,500 | 2.90% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Protestant | California: San Diego County | 1,062,500 | 42.50% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Calif. Metro. Areas ". Self-identification. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. Strictly defined Protestants. Does NOT include LDS (Mormons), Jehovah's Witnesses, Orthodox Christian (Eastern), Unitarians. |
| Protestant - other | California: San Diego County | 355,000 | 14.20% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Self-identification. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. Includes Protestants NOT in: Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, & Episcopalian. |
| Unitarian/Unitarian Universalist | California: San Diego County | 17,500 | 0.70% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993), pg. 111. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Californian Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total San Diego County pop: 2.5 million. |
| Wicca | California: San Diego County | - | - | 25 units |
- | 1982 | Petersen, William J. Those Curious New Cults in the 80s. New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats Publishing (1982), pg. 74. | "In the San Diego area alone there are more than two dozen covens including two high school covens with fifty members each. " |
| African Orthodox Church of the West | California: San Francisco | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1985 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.). The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991), pg. 110. | "African Orthodox Church of the West... Bishop Hinkson consecrated Bishop Franzo King to lead work in San Francisco.; Membership: In 1985, the Church had two parishes, one in Chicago and one in California with several hundred members. " |
| Ancient Tridentine Catholic Church | California: San Francisco | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1988 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.). The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991), pg. 68. | "Membership: IN 1988 the church reported about 120 families in its seven active parishes in San Francisco, Daly City, Yuba City, and Monterey, California; Silver Cliff, Colorado; and Merida, Mexico. " |
| Arab | California: San Francisco | 50,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 2 - Americas. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 48. | "Almost 50,000 Arab Americans live in San Francisco, and the cities of Houston, Jacksonville (Florida), and Phoenix have Arab American populations of more than 20,000 each. " [This is an ethnicity, not a religion.] |
| Catholic Christian Church | California: San Francisco | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1991 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.). The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991), pg. 70. | "Catholic Christian Church... Stanford now heads ministries in San Francisco, California, through the church's chapel, the Holy Order of the Society of St. Jude Thaddeus, and the Natinoal Catholic Street Ministry Project. In addition to the work in San Francisco, the church reports three mission stations. There are two bishops and three priests.; Membership: Not reported. " |
| Church of Satan | California: San Francisco | - | - | - | - | 1966 | 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. 658. | "In the Church of Satan founded in 1966 by Anton LaVey in San Francisco... " |
| homosexual | California: San Francisco | - | 9.90% | - | - | 1985 | Schmidt, Thomas E. Straight & Narrow: Compassion & Clarity in the Homosexuality Debate. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press (1995), pg. 103. [Orig. source: M. Diamond. "Homosexuality and Bisexuality in Different Populations, " Archives of Sexual Behavior 22 no. 4 (1993): 291-310 (summary on p. 306).] | "Diamond also reports city studies of San Francisco (1984) and New York (1985) that yielded numbers of 9.9% and 9%, respectively, who identified themselves as homosexual or bisexual. " |
| homosexual | California: San Francisco | - | - | - | - | 1995 | Witt, Lynn; S. Thomas & Eric Marcus (ed.) Out in All Directions: A Treasury of Gay and Lesbian America. New York: Warner Books (1995), pg. 339. | Table: "Gay Neighborhoods Around the Country "; "In many large cities, there are neighborhoods where gay people live, own businesses, or just hang out. Each has its own local designation "; The Castro, San Francisco |
| Judaism | California: San Francisco | 223,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Naisbitt, John & Patricia Aburdene. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's. New York: William Morrow and Co. (1990), pg. 278. | "There is a Jewish renaissance in the San francisco area, home of 223,000 Jews, the country's eight-largest community--many of them baby boomers. Ther are several Jewish newspapers, a film festival, two Jewish theater groups, and five community centers. the religious revival there has a distinctly Californian flavor: the Aquarian Minyan, New Age-style Friday night Sabbath services, and a synagogue 'without walls' which holds outdoor services. " |
| Judaism | California: San Francisco | 210,000 | - | - | - | 1992 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 2 - Americas. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 267. | "The metropolitan areas with the largest Jewish populations were New York City (1.45 million), Los Angeles (490,000), Chicago (261,000), Philadelphia (250,000), Boston (228,000), an San Francisco Bay area (210,000), Miami (189,000), and Washington, D.C. (165,000). " |
| Judaism | California: San Francisco | 210,000 | - | - | - | 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. " |
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