The Number of Muslims in the U.S. Rising Sharply
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
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The Muslim population in the United States rose sharply in a decade tarakhir. The number of Muslims in America outnumber the Jews for the first time in most of the Midwest.
In a religion in the U.S. census held Statistical Association of American Religious Bodies, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 local time, the impact of the U.S. Muslim population rocketing to the churches in the U.S. have lost their congregations and religious activities are currently empty.
Muslims in the U.S. rose to 2.6 million people in 2010, has doubled over one million people in 2000. "The increase was due to swift currents of immigration and the number of people who become converts," said Dale Jones, a researcher involved in the census statistics for the association of religious bodies in America (ASARB) it.
Besides Muslims, the followers of Mormon or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also increased by 45 percent, to 6.1 percent in 2010. "In every state of the Christian religious groups remain the highest in the country. But we found some interesting things, which embraces the growth of Mormon, which was recorded in 26 states," Jones said in a conference in Chicago, USA.
In that census, the researchers record the number of followers of religions in the country of 236 superpower. Family members of religious adherents are also included in the calculated data. In general, 55 percent of Americans still worship on a regular basis. However, most of the mentioned survey ever conducted about 85 percent of U.S. residents who claim a religion, do not worship regularly. While 158 million people of As pleaded not embrace any alias atheist.
Of a major religion, Catholicism was the religion that embraces the highest loss, reduced by five percent to 58.9 million during the last decade.
"Catholics have a reduction in the number of followers at most," Jones said, citing Maine, where the occurrence of cases of child abuse by priests.
In the region of New England, Catholic funerals outnumber Baptist Christian burial. Sedankan number of followers of the Church of the Southern Baptist Convention has a number of followers of a stable, ie 19.9 million people over the past decade.
Methodist Church losing adherents as much as four percent to 9.9 million people, the Evangelical Lutheran Church lost 18 percent to 4.2 million adherents, and the Episcopal Church lost 15 percent to become only 1.95 people.
Though slowly, embraces Evangelical Protestant congregations continued to grow, to 50 million adherents. Interestingly, the increase occurred in urban areas and is made up of communities that consist of only 100 people.
Followers of Buddhism also increased dramatically in the states around the Rocky Montain, where the temple and the congregation increased. The number of Buddhists in the U.S. is now recorded almost one million inhabitants.
In a religion in the U.S. census held Statistical Association of American Religious Bodies, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 local time, the impact of the U.S. Muslim population rocketing to the churches in the U.S. have lost their congregations and religious activities are currently empty.
Muslims in the U.S. rose to 2.6 million people in 2010, has doubled over one million people in 2000. "The increase was due to swift currents of immigration and the number of people who become converts," said Dale Jones, a researcher involved in the census statistics for the association of religious bodies in America (ASARB) it.
Besides Muslims, the followers of Mormon or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also increased by 45 percent, to 6.1 percent in 2010. "In every state of the Christian religious groups remain the highest in the country. But we found some interesting things, which embraces the growth of Mormon, which was recorded in 26 states," Jones said in a conference in Chicago, USA.
In that census, the researchers record the number of followers of religions in the country of 236 superpower. Family members of religious adherents are also included in the calculated data. In general, 55 percent of Americans still worship on a regular basis. However, most of the mentioned survey ever conducted about 85 percent of U.S. residents who claim a religion, do not worship regularly. While 158 million people of As pleaded not embrace any alias atheist.
Of a major religion, Catholicism was the religion that embraces the highest loss, reduced by five percent to 58.9 million during the last decade.
"Catholics have a reduction in the number of followers at most," Jones said, citing Maine, where the occurrence of cases of child abuse by priests.
In the region of New England, Catholic funerals outnumber Baptist Christian burial. Sedankan number of followers of the Church of the Southern Baptist Convention has a number of followers of a stable, ie 19.9 million people over the past decade.
Methodist Church losing adherents as much as four percent to 9.9 million people, the Evangelical Lutheran Church lost 18 percent to 4.2 million adherents, and the Episcopal Church lost 15 percent to become only 1.95 people.
Though slowly, embraces Evangelical Protestant congregations continued to grow, to 50 million adherents. Interestingly, the increase occurred in urban areas and is made up of communities that consist of only 100 people.
Followers of Buddhism also increased dramatically in the states around the Rocky Montain, where the temple and the congregation increased. The number of Buddhists in the U.S. is now recorded almost one million inhabitants.
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