How many Christians convert to Iran?
A 2015 study estimated (describing this as a conservative estimate) that there were 100,000 Christian believers from a Muslim background living in Iran, most of them evangelical or Pentecostal Christians.
In what country is Christianity growing the fastest?
Christianity has been estimated to be growing rapidly in South America, Africa, and Asia. In Africa, for instance, in 1900, there were only 8.7 million adherents of Christianity; now there are 390 million, and it is expected that by 2025 there will be 600 million Christians in Africa.
What percentage of Iranians believe in God?
Compared with Iran’s 99.5\% Shiite census figure, GAMAAN found that 78\% of the participants believed in God — but only 32\% identified themselves as Shiite Muslims. Figures show that 9\% identified as atheist, 8\% as Zoroastrian, 7\% as spiritual, 6\% as agnostic, and 5\% as Sunni Muslim.
How will disentangling of state power and religious authority affect Iran’s Society?
Greater access to the world via the internet, but also through interactions with the global Iranian diaspora in the past 50 years, has generated new communities and forms of religious experience inside the country. A future disentangling of state power and religious authority would likely exacerbate these societal transformations.
What are the statistics about atheism in Iran?
There is no statistics whatsoever in Iran and any other “Muslim” Middle Eastern country about atheism. It could be a relative rise of atheism, but unfortunately the atheism is ilegal there. Since the rise of the Islamic fundamentalism and 1979, the country has changed in its religious freedom.
Is Iran’s religious life declining?
Other research on population growth, whose decline has been linked to higher levels of secularisation, also suggests a decline in religiosity in Iran. In 2020, Iran recorded its lowest population growth, below 1\%.
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