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		<title>Pagan Population</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mapped here are people called by the World Christian Database 'Ethnoreligionists', defined as 'A collective term for primal or primitive religionists, animists, spirit-worshippers, shamanists, ancestor-venerators, polytheists, pantheists, traditionalists (in Africa), local or tribal folk-religionists; including adherents of neo-paganism or non-Christian local or tribal syncretistic or nativistic movements, cargo cults, witchcraft eradication cults, possession healing movements, tribal messianic movements; still occasionally termed pagans, heathen, fetishists; usually confined each to a single tribe or people, hence tribal or local as opposed to ‘universal’ (open to any or all peoples).']]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of the world&#8217;s Pagan population  living there.</strong></p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>The <a href="http://worldchristiandatabase.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Christian Database (WCD)</a> was our main source of data for this series of religion maps compiled in 2009. Please find further information about the data and its compilation in the <a href="http://archive.worldmapper.org/extraindex/religion_notes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Worldmapper archive</a>.</p>
<p>Further adjustments to the data were made in March 2018, first and foremost to account for major geopolitical changes, and adjusting to reflect the changing population distributions. We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Non-religious Population</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/non-religious-population-2005/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not religious, in this sense, is everyone who is left over when you have counted adherents. The World Christian Database, on which the data is based, use the term 'nonreligionists' and defines it as ' ... encompassing the 2 varieties of unbeliever: (a) agnostics or secularists or materialists, who are nonreligious but not hostile to religion, and (b) atheists or anti-religious/anti-religionists opposed or hostile to religion.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of the world&#8217;s non religious population  living there.</strong></p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>The <a href="http://worldchristiandatabase.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Christian Database (WCD)</a> was our main source of data for this series of religion maps compiled in 2009. Please find further information about the data and its compilation in the <a href="http://archive.worldmapper.org/extraindex/religion_notes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Worldmapper archive</a>.</p>
<p>Further adjustments to the data were made in March 2018, first and foremost to account for major geopolitical changes, and adjusting to reflect the changing population distributions. We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Zororastrian Population</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/zororastrian-population-2005/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Zoroastrianism is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster. While Zoroastrianism was once the dominant religion of much of Greater Iran, the number of adherents has dwindled to less than 200,000 worldwide, with concentrations in India and Iran. (Information source: Wikipedia).]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of the world&#8217;s Zororastrian population  living there.</strong></p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>The <a href="http://worldchristiandatabase.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Christian Database (WCD)</a> was our main source of data for this series of religion maps compiled in 2009. Please find further information about the data and its compilation in the <a href="http://archive.worldmapper.org/extraindex/religion_notes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Worldmapper archive</a>.</p>
<p>Further adjustments to the data were made in March 2018, first and foremost to account for major geopolitical changes, and adjusting to reflect the changing population distributions. We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Spiritualist Population</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/spiritualist-population-2005/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Spiritism is a spiritualist philosophical doctrine, established in France in the mid-nineteenth century. Spiritism, or French spiritualism, is based on books written by French educator Hypolite Léon Denizard Rivail under the pseudonym Allan Kardec. Spiritism has a large number of followers in Latin America, especially Brazil. (Information source: Wikipedia)]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of the world&#8217;s Spiritualist population  living there.</strong></p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>The <a href="http://worldchristiandatabase.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Christian Database (WCD)</a> was our main source of data for this series of religion maps compiled in 2009. Please find further information about the data and its compilation in the <a href="http://archive.worldmapper.org/extraindex/religion_notes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Worldmapper archive</a>.</p>
<p>Further adjustments to the data were made in March 2018, first and foremost to account for major geopolitical changes, and adjusting to reflect the changing population distributions. We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Shia Population</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/shia-population/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shia Islam is the second largest denomination of the Islamic Faith, after Sunni Islam, having about 15% of Muslims worldwide. Shias adhere to the teachings of Islamic prophet Muhammad, but differ from Sunni in following the religious guidance of his family (who are referred to as the Ahl al-Bayt) or his descendants known as Shi'a Imams, whom they consider to be infallible. A large portion of the world's Shia live in the Middle East, especially Iran, where 90% of the population is Shia. (Information source: Wikipedia)]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of the world&#8217;s Shia population  living there.</strong></p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>The <a href="http://worldchristiandatabase.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Christian Database (WCD)</a> was our main source of data for this series of religion maps compiled in 2009. Please find further information about the data and its compilation in the <a href="http://archive.worldmapper.org/extraindex/religion_notes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Worldmapper archive</a>.</p>
<p>Further adjustments to the data were made in March 2018, first and foremost to account for major geopolitical changes, and adjusting to reflect the changing population distributions. We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Taoist Population</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/taoist-population/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Taoic (or East Asian) religions focus on the East Asian concept of Tao. For the purposes of this map, we include Confusionism, Shintoism, Taoism and Chinese Universism. (Information source: Wikipedia)

Tao can be roughly translated into English as 'path', or 'the way'. It 'refers to a power which envelops, surrounds and flows through all things, living and non-living.' The founder of Taoism is believed by many to be Lao-Tse (604-531 BCE), a contemporary of Confucius. Taoism is centred on Taiwan, with large populations also in Hong Kong and China. (<a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/taoism.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Source</a>)]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of the world&#8217;s Taoists  living there.</strong></p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>The <a href="http://worldchristiandatabase.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Christian Database (WCD)</a> was our main source of data for this series of religion maps compiled in 2009. Please find further information about the data and its compilation in the <a href="http://archive.worldmapper.org/extraindex/religion_notes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Worldmapper archive</a>.</p>
<p>Further adjustments to the data were made in March 2018, first and foremost to account for major geopolitical changes, and adjusting to reflect the changing population distributions. We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Shintoist Population</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/shintoist-population-2005/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shinto ('the way of the gods') is the traditional faith of the Japanese people and as old as Japan herself. It remains Japan's major religion besides Buddhism. Shinto does not have a founder nor does it have sacred scriptures like the sutras or the bible. The vast majority of Adherents are in Japan, with a significant number of followers also in the Republic of Korea and the United States. (Source)]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of the world&#8217;s Shintoists  living there.</strong></p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>The <a href="http://worldchristiandatabase.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Christian Database (WCD)</a> was our main source of data for this series of religion maps compiled in 2009. Please find further information about the data and its compilation in the <a href="http://archive.worldmapper.org/extraindex/religion_notes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Worldmapper archive</a>.</p>
<p>Further adjustments to the data were made in March 2018, first and foremost to account for major geopolitical changes, and adjusting to reflect the changing population distributions. We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Confucianists</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/confucianists-2005/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Confucianism is an ancient Chinese ethical and philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of the early Chinese philosopher Confucius. Confucianism is a complex system of moral, social, political, philosophical, and quasi-religious thought that has had tremendous influence on the culture and history of East Asia. The map is domintated by China, but there are also significant populations of adherents in Myanmar, Thailand, Japan, Australia. (Information source: Wikipedia)]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of the world&#8217;s Confucianists  living there.</strong></p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>The <a href="http://worldchristiandatabase.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Christian Database (WCD)</a> was our main source of data for this series of religion maps compiled in 2009. Please find further information about the data and its compilation in the <a href="http://archive.worldmapper.org/extraindex/religion_notes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Worldmapper archive</a>.</p>
<p>Further adjustments to the data were made in March 2018, first and foremost to account for major geopolitical changes, and adjusting to reflect the changing population distributions. We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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