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Cross posted from WWP. :3 I thought you'd get a kick out of some actual numbers.
OMG kiddies, it's a woman talkin' numbers on the internets!
So everyone wants to know some hard data about Scientology, right? Well, too bad. :3 Hard numbers are almost impossible, but the American Religion Survey from Trinity College, a respected census program that's been collecting data on religious practitioners for years has put out their report from 2008. You may have caught the bawwing in mainstream media on the declining numbers of Christians in the US, but that only led me to take a closer look at the numbers.
American Religious Identification Survey 2008
Scientology is classified under "New Religious Movements and Other Religions" and is grouped with New Age, Eckankar, Spiritualist, Unitarian-Universalist, Deist, Wiccan, Pagan, Druid, Indian Religion, Santeria, Rastafarian.
"New Religious Movements" have been on the rise, Scientology is right. In 1990, they were 0.8% of the population and now they're 1.2% of the population. A 0.4% rise in the past 18 years. This puts the numbers at 1,296,000 people in 1990 to 2,804,000 people in 2008.
That's 2,804,000 people in the United States in 2008 who are a Scientologist, New Age, Eckankar, Spiritualist, Unitarian-Universalist, Deist, Wiccan, Pagan, Druid, Indian Religion, Santeria, or Rastafarian.
With an estimated 1,525 Scientologists in Canada from a 2001 census (Montreal Mirror - News), 2,507 estimated in Australia from a 2006 census (http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/pdf/2004/lewis2004.pdf), 357 in New Zealand in 2007 (UNHCR | Refworld | 2008 Report on International Religious Freedom - New Zealand), 1,781 in the UK in 2001 (http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/pdf/2004/lewis2004.pdf), and 5,000-6,000 in Germany (http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/download/SHOW/vsbericht_2005.pdf) I just have to say....
....whar u at, Scientology?
OMG kiddies, it's a woman talkin' numbers on the internets!
So everyone wants to know some hard data about Scientology, right? Well, too bad. :3 Hard numbers are almost impossible, but the American Religion Survey from Trinity College, a respected census program that's been collecting data on religious practitioners for years has put out their report from 2008. You may have caught the bawwing in mainstream media on the declining numbers of Christians in the US, but that only led me to take a closer look at the numbers.
American Religious Identification Survey 2008
Scientology is classified under "New Religious Movements and Other Religions" and is grouped with New Age, Eckankar, Spiritualist, Unitarian-Universalist, Deist, Wiccan, Pagan, Druid, Indian Religion, Santeria, Rastafarian.
"New Religious Movements" have been on the rise, Scientology is right. In 1990, they were 0.8% of the population and now they're 1.2% of the population. A 0.4% rise in the past 18 years. This puts the numbers at 1,296,000 people in 1990 to 2,804,000 people in 2008.
That's 2,804,000 people in the United States in 2008 who are a Scientologist, New Age, Eckankar, Spiritualist, Unitarian-Universalist, Deist, Wiccan, Pagan, Druid, Indian Religion, Santeria, or Rastafarian.
With an estimated 1,525 Scientologists in Canada from a 2001 census (Montreal Mirror - News), 2,507 estimated in Australia from a 2006 census (http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/pdf/2004/lewis2004.pdf), 357 in New Zealand in 2007 (UNHCR | Refworld | 2008 Report on International Religious Freedom - New Zealand), 1,781 in the UK in 2001 (http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/pdf/2004/lewis2004.pdf), and 5,000-6,000 in Germany (http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/download/SHOW/vsbericht_2005.pdf) I just have to say....
....whar u at, Scientology?
