Sources

The books, articles, translations and archives the atlas cites as evidence for what it asserts, each carrying an author, publisher, year and a reliability tier where one can be established. A source entry is what a reader follows to check a claim rather than take the atlas's word for it.

Sources

Adam McLean, 1991

Algemeiner, 5 December 2011

Asali Earthwork

Baha'i World News Service

Brendan Walsh, University of Queensland

catholicworldreport.com, 2017

Church of Ireland, Diocese of Connor

Church of Pentecost

Civil War History, Kent State University Press, Volume 57, No. 4, December 2011

Classical Vocal Reprints publisher catalogue, CVR#20559, read 2026-08-19

Democratic Voice of Vietnam

ETV Bharat, 18 June 2026

FEZANA

Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center

Government Report

Government Report Mirror

Investigative Journalism

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, 2011

ISKCON Governing Body Commission, Sri Mayapur Dham, 12 to 23 February 2009

J. Spencer Trimingham, Oxford University Press, 1962

katholisch.at, 2025

Los Angeles Times

Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access collection API record, read 2026-08-18

mistapametinaroda.cz, accessed 2026

newworldencyclopedia.org, accessed 2026

Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research (ASTR)

OSV News, reporting on USCCB Charter compliance data compiled by CARA and StoneBridge Business Partners

Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada

Pew Research Center

PLOS ONE

Pluto Press

praguemorning.cz, 2020

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Office of the General Assembly

Religion Media Centre

Religious Body

Roger Canals, Berghahn Books, 2017

San Jose Mercury News, 23 December 2001, byline Sarah Lubman

SDVoyager

source

state.gov, read 2026-08-23

Stephen R. Bokenkamp

Steven Runciman, Cambridge University Press, 1954

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2026

The Federal, published 9 December 2025

The Presbyterian Outlook

The Wesleyan Church, published 2018

The Wild Hunt

Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton, Cambridge University Press, 2008

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, June 2015, byline Jeff Wilson

U.S. Department of State, published August 15, 2017

U.S. Department of State, published June 26, 2024, citing the government's March 2023 White Book on Religion

U.S. Department of State, published May 12, 2021

U.S. Department of State, published May 15, 2023

US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor, read 2026-08-16

US Department of State, mirrored by ecoi.net

Victoria County History

Web Source

Wikipedia

Wikipedia contributors, 2026

Wikipedia, accessed 2026

World Mission Society Church of God own website (watv.org), published 2025-06-14

World Tribune, Soka Gakkai International's own publication, read 2026-08-16

Xinhua, 1 January 2025

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