A Pew Research Center report, published December 19, 2011, analyzing Center for the Study of Global Christianity data on Christian movements and denominations worldwide. It estimates about 279 million Pentecostal Christians and about 305 million Charismatic Christians as of 2010, together placing Renewalist Christianity, the umbrella term for the two movements combined, at more than a quarter of the world's roughly two billion Christians.
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PublisherPew Research Center
Publication Year2011
URLhttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2011/12/19/global-christianity-movements-and-denominations/
Source TypeDemographic study
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Reliability Tier2
Pew's own published analysis of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity's demographic estimates for Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity worldwide, relaying a named external dataset rather than a survey Pew itself fielded; a credible institutional secondary account of a named scholarly estimate. Cross-Tradition Connections
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- Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Denominations, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 general references.
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