Dominica

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Dominica, a mountainous, heavily forested Windward Island the country's own tourist board calls the Nature Island, should not be confused with the far larger Dominican Republic to its northwest, a mix-up its own government routinely has to correct. Roman Catholicism remains the largest tradition, close to half the population, carrying forward the French and later British colonial presence, while Protestant churches, Seventh-day Adventist, Pentecostal, Baptist and Methodist chief among them, have grown substantially in recent decades and together now approach the Catholic share.

Dominica is also home to the largest remaining population of Kalinago people, the Indigenous Caribbean community the islands take their regional name from, whose reservation in the northeast retains elements of traditional spiritual practice alongside near-universal Christian affiliation, and a small but visible Rastafari community reflects the same wider Caribbean religious current found across the Windward and Leeward Islands.

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

The constitution's preamble affirms the nation's belief in a society founded on principles that acknowledge the supremacy of God, a formula common to several former British Caribbean territories that stops short of naming any specific church while still setting the country's founding document apart from a purely secular text; the constitution guarantees freedom of religion and worship and creates no established church. Section 8 of the Criminal Code punishes abusive, blasphemous, indecent, insulting, profane or threatening language in a public place with a fine or a month's imprisonment, wording it shares in near identical form with several of its Eastern Caribbean neighbors' codes.

Dominica has never concluded a concordat with the Holy See, and its Apostolic Nunciature is held, as with the country's other diplomatic missions from Rome, by the prelate appointed to Trinidad and Tobago, part of the shared nunciature pattern the Holy See uses across the smaller states of the Eastern Caribbean rather than a treaty specific to Dominica.