Quick Reference Chart
Monday January 12, 2009
There is a new essential called the quick reference chart. This offers some quick statistics about religions discussed on the Alternative Religion Guide Site, as well as links to their summary pages.
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Any chance you’d put independent Catholic or gnostic on your chart?
I’m generally listing them as I write about them. Gnosticism is a topic I will definitely eventually cover.
What is “independent Catholicism”? From the name, I suspect that topic might be better addressed at the Catholic Guide Site.
Marcus Garvey did not found Rasta.
Who would you suggest? I debated this one a while.
Howdy! Fascinating chart, I hope you’ll keep adding to it…I’m sure it’d be impossible to figure out the number of Wiccans, Witches, etc. but it’d be fun to know.
As for Marcus Garvey & Rasta…perhaps you might list him as a “proponent”. Anyway, thanks again for an interesting blog.
Counting Neopagans is something like herding cats. I go with a number of roughly 750,000 Wiccans in the US today and something approaching a million worldwide. This is based on the 2001 ARIS study. But I always stick a great big disclaimer on that reinforcing that it is a rough estimate.