Religions
See also: Religion in Canada| 1991 number |
1991 % |
2001 number |
2001 % |
% change (in numbers) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian | 22,468,260 | 83 | 22,799,645 | 77 | -1.5 |
| - Catholic | 12,335,255 | 45.7 | 12,936,905 | 43.6 | +4.8 |
| - Protestant | 9,427,675 | 34.9 | 8,654,850 | 29.2 | -8.2 |
| - United Church of Canada | 3,093,120 | 11.3 | 2,839,125 | 9.5 | -8.2 |
| - Anglican Church of Canada | 2,188,110 | 8.0 | 2,035,495 | 6.8 | -7.0 |
| - Baptist | 663,360 | 2.4 | 729,475 | 2.4 | +10.0 |
| - Lutheran | 636,205 | 2.3 | 606,590 | 2.0 | -4.7 |
| - Presbyterian | 636,295 | 2.3 | 409,830 | 1.4 | -35.6 |
| - Pentecostal | 436,435 | 1.6 | 369,475 | 1.2 | -15.3 |
| - Mennonite | 207,970 | 0.8 | 191,465 | 0.6 | -7.9 |
| - Jehovah's Witnesses | 168,375 | 0.6 | 154,745 | 0.5 | -8.1 |
| - Methodist | 83,910 | 0.3 | 106,545 | 0.4 | +27.0 |
| - Mormon | 100,770 | 0.4 | 104,750 | 0.3 | +3.9 |
| - Salvation Army | 112,345 | 0.4 | 87,785 | 0.3 | -21.9 |
| - Christian Reformed Church in North America | 84,685 | 0.3 | 76,665 | 0.3 | -9.5 |
| - Christian and Missionary Alliance | 59,365 | 0.2 | 66,280 | 0.2 | +11.9 |
| - Adventists | 52,365 | 0.2 | 62,875 | 0.2 | +20.1 |
| - Christian Orthodox | 387,395 | 1.4 | 479,620 | 1.6 | +23.8 |
| - Greek Orthodox | 231,965 | 0.9 | 215,200 | 0.7 | -7.1 |
| - Christian, not included elsewhere¹ | 353,040 | 1.3 | 780,450 | 2.6 | +121.1 |
| Other | 1,148,060 | 4.3 | 1,988,635 | 6.7 | +73.2 |
| - Jewish | 318,185 | 1.2 | 329,995 | 1.1 | +3.7 |
| - Muslim | 253,265 | 0.9 | 579,640 | 2.0 | +128.9 |
| - Buddhist | 163,415 | 0.6 | 300,345 | 1.0 | +83.8 |
| - Hindu | 157,015 | 0.6 | 297,200 | 1.0 | +89.3 |
| - Sikh | 147,440 | 0.5 | 278,410 | 0.9 | +88.8 |
| No religion | 3,397,000 | 12.6 | 4,900,095 | 16.5 | +44.2 |
| ¹ Includes persons who report only "Christian", only "Protestant", and those in denominations less than 60,000 * For comparability purposes, 1991 data are presented according to 2001 boundaries. |
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Note(s):
- Catholic includes Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Polish National Catholic Church, and Old Catholic
- Other Religions also includes Bahá'í Faith, Eckankar, Jainism, Shinto, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Aboriginal belief systems, Neo-Paganism, Wicca, Unity - New Thought - Pantheist, Scientology, Rastafari movement, New Age, Gnostic, Satanism, et cetera
- No Religion includes Atheism, Agnosticism, Humanism, et cetera
However, a more recent research in 2005 indicates that the non-religious group has risen significantly. Phil Zuckerman, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College writes of several academic sources who have in recent years placed atheism rates in Canada between 19% and 30%.
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of Canada
Famous quotes containing the word religions:
“Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of all times are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
“The ancients adorned their sarcophagi with the emblems of life and procreation, and even with obscene symbols; in the religions of antiquity the sacred and the obscene often lay very close together. These men knew how to pay homage to death. For death is worthy of homage as the cradle of life, as the womb of palingenesis.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)