The Global Religious Landscape June 2012 | страница 9

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PEW FORUM ON RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE

The new study on the global religious landscape as of
complements two previous
reports by the Pew Forum on the size and distribution of the world’s Christian and Muslim
populations: “Mapping the Global Muslim Population” ( ctober
) and “Global
Christianity” (December
). A third report, “The Future of the Global Muslim Population”
(January
), projects the future growth of the world’s Muslim population through the year
. The Pew Forum is now collaborating with IIASA researchers to project the future growth
of all major religious groups, including the religiously unaf liated. e expect to publish those
projections in
.
The primary researchers for “The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and
Distribution of the orld’s Major Religions as of
” are Pew Forum demographer Conrad
ackett and senior researcher rian J. Grim, the Pew Forum’s director of cross-national
data. They received valuable research assistance from research analyst Noble Kuriakose and
other Pew Forum staffers listed on the masthead of this report. e are also indebted to our
colleagues at IIASA, Marcin Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk and Michaela Potan okov , and to
Guy Abel at the Vienna Institute of Demography.
hile the data collection and analysis were guided by our collaborators, the Pew Forum is
solely responsible for the interpretation and reporting of the data.
Luis Lugo, Director
Alan Cooperman, Associate Director, Research

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