According to other scholars, many converted for a whole host of reasons, the main statement of which was evangelization by Muslims, though there were several instances where some were pressured to convert owing to internal violence and friction between the Christian and Muslim communities, according to historian Philip Jenkins. The second fastest growing religion in Ireland is Orthodox Christianity, where numbers have doubled in the space of five years, rising to 45,223 in 2011. In the absence of any state legislation specifically governing restitution, return of former religious properties continued on an ad hoc basis at the discretion of municipal officials but was usually completed only in favor of the majority group. Muslims comprise the single largest religious community in Bosnia and Herzegovina . The State Constitution provides for freedom of religion; however, respect for religious freedom declined due to selective legal enforcement and indifference of some government officials, which allowed societal violence and the threat of violence to restrict the ability to worship of adherents of religious groups in areas where they are in the minority. Christianity is the world's largest religion with just over 2 billion followers. Experts predict Islam will surpass Christianity as the largest religion by the end of the century. Just remember the following: Bosniaks are Muslims. Schnabel and Bock argued also that evangelicalism and Conservative Christianity has persisted and expanded in the United States. I am born Hindu reverted to Islam. At the end of 2017, the average age of the Israeli Druze was 27.9. Christianity is expected to have the largest net loss of followers between 2010 and 2050 in North America (-28 million), Europe (-24 million), Latin America and the Caribbean (-9.5 million), sub-Saharan Africa (-3 million), and Asia-Pacific (2.4 million). In 2010, the median age of Muslims throughout Europe was (32), eight years younger than the median for all Europeans (40). Growth of religion involves the spread of individual religions and the increase in the numbers of religious adherents around the world. The lines dividing politics, ethnic identity, and religion were often blurred, particularly during the period prior to the 2006 national elections and during the public debate over proposed changes to the Bosnian Constitution. Bosnians are Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They are also the fastest-growing group of Muslims in America, according to organizations that cater to Hispanics converting to Islam. Conference on Religion and Violence. [102] The main growth areas have been Asia and Africa, 39% and 32%, respectively, since 2000. Statistics commonly measure the absolute number of adherents, the percentage of the absolute growth per-year, and the growth of converts in the world. [119] Khalil Bilici, while admitting that the limitations of their 2007 study database are too small, found a good number of Middle Eastern people are likely to convert to Christianity after leaving Islam. ", "Hundreds of asylum seekers in Finland converting from Islam to Christianity", "German churches see rise in baptisms for refugees", "Shklzen ou Giannis? [272] About 26.3% of the Israeli Druze population are under 14 years old and about 6.1% of the Israeli Druze are 65 years and over. Franjevaki provincijalat Bosne Srebrene. [237] A June 2020 online survey found a much smaller percentage of Iranians stating they believe in Islam, with half of those surveyed indicating they had lost their religious faith. Special administrative areas in China are Buddhist majority areas such as Macau, Tibet, and Hong Kong. [229] Large increases in the developing world (around 23,000 per day) have been accompanied by substantial declines in the developed world, mainly in Western Europe and North America. Muslim women's low educational attainment is a likely factor; demographers find that higher educational attainment among women is tied to lower fertility rates". [304][305] According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the World Christian Database as of 2007 has Islam as the fastest-growing religion in the world. [36] The decline is due to several factors such as the low fertility level among Buddhists (1.6 children per woman),[37] and the old age (median age of 34), compared to the overall population. Besides, the Muslim population in sub-Saharan Africa is forecast to grow from about 250million in 2010 to nearly 670million in 2050 which is more than double. [1] The Australian Bureau of Statistics, through statistical analysis, held Buddhism to be the fastest-growing spiritual tradition in Australia in terms of percentage gain, with a growth of 79.1% for the period 1996 to 2001 (200,000358,000). [363][364], According to Rodney Stark, Islam was spread after military conquests after Arab armies began overtaking Christian regions from Syria to North Africa and Spain,[365] as well as Zoroastrian, Buddhist and Hindu regions in Central Asia, parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia via military invasions,[366][367][368] traders and Sufi missionaries. [39], According to Mark Jrgensmeyer of the University of California, popular Protestantism is one of the most dynamic religious movements in the contemporary world. This is according to a study done by the Pew Research Center in which they analyzed demographic data from around the world to predict religious populations' future.. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. [284] According to Pew Research Center 99% of Hindus lived in the Indo-Pacific region in 2010. [201] Also according to the historian Daniel Pipes of Harvard University and University of Chicago,[202] and a researcher specializing in criticism of Islam, "reports of widespread conversions of Muslims to Christianity come from regions as disparate as Algeria, Albania, Syria, and Kurdistan",[135] in northern Iraq and Algeria, the conversions of Kurds and Berbers to Christianity are unusually high. What is the fastest growing religion in Croatia? "[412], The largest proportions of the total world Bah' population[413] were found in sub-Saharan Africa (29.9%) and South Asia (26.8%), followed by Southeast Asia (12.7%) and Latin America (12.2%). More details.. [330] According to the same study, Muslims population growth is twice of world's overall population growth due to young age and relatively high fertility rate and as a result Muslims are projected to rise to 30% (2050) of the world's population from 23% (2010). "Chapter 1: Religious Affiliation". [21], In Bosnia and Herzegovina, there are eight muftis located in major municipalities across the country: Sarajevo, Biha, Travnik, Tuzla, Gorade, Zenica, Mostar, and Banja Luka. According to the Pew Research Center, religious conversion may have a modest impact on religiously unaffiliated population between 2010 and 2050; religiously unaffiliated are expected to gain 61 million adherents. [452][453] According to Anne Elizabeth Wynn of The Statesman, "The two most recent American Religious Identification Surveys declare Wicca, one form of paganism, as the fastest growing spiritual identification in America". [328] While both religions will grow but Muslim population will exceed the Christian population and by 2100, Muslim population (35%) will be 1% more than the Christian population (34%). 2050, robots will do many of our . Organizers planned to hold the burials at the mosque on May 12, 2007, the 15th anniversary of the massacre, but Serb veterans' associations and local residents protested the planned burials. replacement level. [254] According to a 2021 study by the Pew Research Center, Christianity in India gained an increase from conversion, most of the Christian converts in India are former Hindus. Roman Catholics were not very common in Bosnia's past. [5] There is also a small Sufi community, located primarily in Central Bosnia. There were around 50,000 Catholics at most during the rule of the Ottoman Empire. [399], There is also a trend of Orthodox movements reaching out to secular Jews in order to give them a stronger Jewish identity so there is less chance of intermarriage. [24] Across 2004-5 ambassadors including from Bosnia and Herzegovina were received on official visits to the Bah' World Center in Haifa, Israel. Jainism is currently the fourth fastest growing religion in Australia, recording 4,050 adherents in 2016 and growing an average of 7.7% per year. Local police were present, and there was no violence. . By 2030 Muslims are projected to represent about 26.4% of the global population (out of a total of 7.9billion people). It also urged them to oppose U.S.-brokered constitutional amendments "through which war horrors would be legalized and the Croat people marginalized." In Latin America and Caribbean Muslim population will stay 0.1% by 2050. [486], The American Religious Identification Survey gives Wicca an average annual growth of 143% for the period 1990 to 2001 (from 8,000 to 134,000 U.S. data / similar for Canada & Australia). Thus, this report excludes religious conversion as a direct factor from the projection of Muslim population growth. Buddhism is the majority religion in the follwing nine countries: Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Bhutan, Mongolia, Japan and Singapore. If a sufficient number of students of minority religious group(s) attend a particular school (20 in the RS, 15 in the Federation), the school must organize religion classes on their behalf. Many Islamic religious buildings were damaged or destroyed in the Bosnian War during the 90s, with up to 80% of well-over 4000 different buildings,[11] and several mosques were rebuilt with the aid of funds from Saudi Arabia and other countries from the Middle and far East. [70], In mid-2005 Christianity adds about 65.1 million people annually due to factors such as birth rate and religious conversion, while losing 27.4 million people annually due to factors such as death rate and religious apostasy. Overview of the role of the Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina, "Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina" redirects here. [515], The World Religion Database[516] (WRD) is a peer-reviewed database of international religious statistics based on research conducted at the Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs at Boston University. Unfortunately Islam is fastest growing all over the world. [26], Only in recent decades have surveys begun to measure changes in religious identity among individuals. [119] Many Muslims who convert to Christianity face social and governmental persecution. Although deadlines were set by authorities for removal of the church, no action had been taken by the end of the period covered by this report. Many Roman Catholics, alongside large numbers of Orthodox Christians, fled during the Ottoman Rule. Grey = No Change. 270 pp. This scenario (Chinese scenario) is based primarily on sensitivity tests.[26]. These stipulations often result in constitutional discrimination against "others" and sympathizers of certain religious communities that do not fit neatly into the three groups. The number of Muslims living in Japan, though small, has more than doubled in the past decade, from 110,000 in 2010 to 230,000 at the end of 2019 (including as many as 50,000 Japanese converts . ..( Islam will become the fastest-growing religion with a population of 2.76 billion by 2050. [65][67] Much of the growth has occurred after World War II, when decolonization of Africa and abolition of various restrictions against Protestants in Latin American countries occurred. [272] The fertility rate for Israeli Druze in 2017 is 2.1 children per woman, while the fertility rate among Jewish women (3.2) and Muslim women (3.4) and the fertility rate among Israeli Christian women (1.9). Before it was banned in certain countries, the religion "hugely increased" in sub-Saharan Africa. NewsNation BestReviews Nexstar Digital Journalistic Integrity Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information; THE HILL 1625 K STREET, NW SUITE 900 WASHINGTON DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 TEL | 202-628 . The largest net movement is expected to be into the religiously unaffiliated category between 2010 and 2050. [2] It was introduced to the local population in the 15th and 16th centuries as a result of the Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Traditional religious communities all had extensive claims for restitution of property that the communist government of the former Yugoslavia nationalized after World War II. Bosnians tend to be religious, though few are conservative. [350] The prospect of a homogenous Muslim community per se, or a Muslim majority in Europe is however out of the question. This enabled religious leaders to play an influential political role, often promoting nationalist platforms, in the 2006 national elections and subsequent government formation as well as in political programs. [315] On the other hand, according to Pew Research, the number of American converts to Islam is roughly equal to the number of American Muslims who leave Islam and this is unlike other religions in the United States where the number of those who leave these religions is greater than the number of those who convert to it,[197] and most people who leave Islam become unaffiliated, according to same study ex-Muslims were more likely to be Christians compare to ex-Hindus or ex-Jews. [332] Europe's Muslim population also has higher fertility (2.1) than other religious groups in the region, well above the regional average (1.6). The incident received strong condemnation from the Islamic community, Bosniak associations, and the RS Minister of Education and Culture, who called the decision "inappropriate." At the end of the period covered by this report, the Alliance of Baptist Churches awaited registration confirmation. [294], Generally, the term "conversion" is not applicable to Hindu traditions. Besides, Christianity has grown enormously in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. [272], Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world. [334] On the other hand, the increasingly large ex-Muslim communities in the Western world that adhere to no religion have been well documented. An illegally constructed Serbian Orthodox church remained on the land of a Bosniak returnee in the town of Konjevic Polje in the eastern RS, despite the RS Ministry of Urban Planning's 2004 decision that the church should be removed. [39], As of around 2020, there were about 8 million Bah's in the world. [343] Pew study also reveals that Muslims are younger than other Europeans. Some of these centers have both primary and secondary schools, and although the principals are priests, the majority of teachers are not religious officials. Religious leaders also used their position to influence the election outcome by encouraging their communities to vote for certain individuals or parties. However, the other half remained in use as a public school. [21][22] The first Bah Local Spiritual Assembly was formed in November 1990. Australian Bureau of Statistics (21 June 2012). Background: Large numbers of Muslims lived under Austrian rule when Bosnia-Hercegovina was annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908. Historically, Bosnian Muslims had always practiced a form of Islam that is strongly influenced by Sufism. Lines for milk stretched 80 people long before dawn. There is one Serbian Orthodox secondary school in Foca. [336] According to Harvard University professor Robert D. Putnam, there is increasing numbers of Americans who are leaving their faith and becoming unaffiliated and the average Iranian American is slightly less religious than the average American. [394] As a result of the efforts by these and other Jewish groups over the past 25 years, there has been a trend (known as the Baal teshuva movement) for secular Jews to become more religiously observant, though the demographic implications of the trend are unknown. [459], According to a religious forecast for 2050 by Pew Research Center, the percentage of the world's population that is unaffiliated or nonreligious is expected to drop, from 16% of the world's total population in 2010 to 13% in 2050. It was introduced to the local population in the 15th and 16th centuries as a result of the Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina. There are eight muftis (Islamic scholars) located in the major municipalities: Sarajevo, Biha, Travnik, Tuzla, Gorade, Zenica, Mostar, and Banja Luka. will continue. [410][411] In 2013, two scholars of demography wrote that, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahai (sic) was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN region. In these cases the buildings or monuments were built to send a political message to minority believers about the dominance of the majority ethnic and religious group in that area, creating ethnic tensions and impeding the process of reconciliation. Due largely to high fertility, sub-Saharan Africa is projected to experience the fastest overall growth, rising from 12% of the world's population in 2010 to about 20% in 2050. [17][18] According to Pulitzer Center 35,000 people become Pentecostal or "Born again" every day. 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Johnson " Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs Boston University", London: A Rising Island of Religion in a Secular Sea, "The Baha'i Faith 19571988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments", Religion on the Move! Grim.[520]. However, as of mid-2007 no action had been taken, and many believed that the law would not be passed without changes. Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study. On January 27, 2007, BiH officially marked Holocaust Day for the first time and commemorated the day with a series of exhibitions, lectures, and discussions throughout the country. However, in rural areas there are usually no qualified religious representatives available to teach religious studies to the handful of minority students. However John L. Esposito, a scholar on the subject of Islam in The Oxford History of Islam states that the spread of Islam "was often peaceful and sometimes even received favorably by Christians". In the last census, conducted in 2011, 56.7% of the Albanian population declared themselves Muslim. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, over the next four decades the number of Buddhists around the world is expected to decrease from 487 million in 2010 to 486 million in 2050. It was officially registered as a religious community in 2005. "[454], A similar pattern has been found in other countries such as Australia, Canada, and Mexico. [505] Concerns have been raised in recent years over the rapidly declining population of the Parsi community in India. [517] Adherence data is largely compiled from census and surveys. [288], Hinduism is a growing religion in countries such as Ghana,[289] Russia,[290] and the United States. [274][275] Even though the faith originally developed out of Ismaili Islam, Druze does not identify as a branch of Islam. On September 11, 2006, for the second consecutive year, the local Orthodox priest celebrated Mass in the church, which was attended by a large number of attendees singing songs and wearing traditional clothing. Many officials used property restitution cases as a tool of political patronage, rendering religious leaders dependent on politicians to regain property taken from religious communities. Religious education is largely decentralized, as is the education system generally. This Tube Map Has The Answer, 2016 Electoral Map: How Hispanic and Asian Voters Could Change The Electoral College. Bosniak organizers hoped to bury 98 identified victims of a 1992 massacre in Bratunac in which more than 600 persons, including the local imam, were killed. A small minority of non-Bosniak Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina include Albanians, Roma and Turks. Quantitative research is lacking, but he believes the European trend mirrors the American: data from the General Social Survey in the United States show that 32 percent of those raised Muslim no longer embrace Islam in adulthood, and 18 percent hold no religious identification. Some religious leaders became increasingly political and vocal in this period and used religious sermons and services for political campaign purposes. [90], In recent years, the number of Chinese Christians has increased significantly; Christians were 4 million before 1949 (3million Catholics and 1million Protestants), and are reaching 67million today. Current statistics show that the number of Roman Catholics remains lower compared to Muslims and Orthodox Christians. Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, the . [127] Indonesia is home to the largest Christian community made up of converts from their former Islamic faith; according to various sources, since the mid and late 1960s, between two million to 2.5 million Muslims converted to Christianity. Learn how your comment data is processed. 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The main reason for this is the social and legal repercussions associated with leaving Islam in many Muslim majority countries, up to and including the death penalty for apostasy. Some say I follow this version and read that version. [76] Protestantism is growing primarily as a result of historic missionary activity and the recently high fertility rate in Africa,[77][78][39] and due primarily to conversion in China. [306] A 2007 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report argued that some Muslim population projections are overestimated, as they assume that all descendants of Muslims will become Muslims even in cases of mixed parenthood. See answer (1) Copy. For decades, Christianity has remained the largest religious group in the world accounting for 31% of the Earth's 7.3 billion people. Although primarily Croat, these schools are open to students of other ethnicities and religious groups. Other unresolved restitution claims were politically and legally complicated. Size and projected growth of major . [319] With 3.1 children per woman, Muslims have higher fertility levels than the world's overall population between 2010 and 2015. Low fertility rates and aging populations in countries such as China, Thailand and Japan are the main demographic reasons for the expected shrinkage in the Buddhist population in the years ahead".
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