(Redirected from Adherents)'Adherents.com' is a website that aims to collect and present information about
religion including "
churches,
denominations, religious bodies,
faith groups,
tribes,
cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc." As of July 2006, the site contains approximately 44,000
statistics on over 4,300 faith groups. The site offers its information sorted geographically, focusing on the size and location of religions.
According to the site, Adherents.com presents "data from both primary research sources such as government
census reports, statistical sampling
surveys and organizational reporting, as well as citations from
secondary literature which mention adherent statistics."
[1] The site does not provide information about the full teachings of any religion.
Adherents.com is sometime
cited as a reference for religious statistics in TV news and print newspapers.
[2]
References
1. quotation from the site
2. Adherents.com in the News
See also
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Religion and the internet
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Association of Religion Data Archives
External links
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Adherents.com
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