The World's Religions in Figures, by Todd Johnson and Brian Grim, published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2013, is a major work of academic religious demography. Its strength is that it is a systematic, book length treatment of how religious populations are counted worldwide. Its limit is that the branch level shares it gives for a tradition like Buddhism are modelled estimates rather than direct enumerations, and should be read and reported as estimates, not as a census.
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Reliability tier 2: a systematic academic work of religious demography from an academic publisher, whose branch level shares are modelled estimates rather than direct enumerations. NotesPublication year 2013, Wiley-Blackwell, confirmed against the publisher's own record. The branch shares it gives for Buddhism are modelled estimates rather than enumerations, and should be reported as such.
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AuthorTodd M. Johnson and Brian J. Grim
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Publication Year2013
Source Typereference
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