By definition «the world's religions» fell faith or religion, which is widely distributed throughout the globe and has a large number of followers. To date, under this definition falls Hinduism, Christianity, Confucianism, Judaism.
The term «world religions» dates back to the Western philosophical school, precisely to the western branch of Christianity. The desire of the Roman Catholic Church samovozvysitsya and led to the term, within the meaning of «Christianity - the world's religions».
The title «world religion» is not attributable simply, but only in cases where religion meets specific requirements. These requirements made UN: 1) a large number of followers around the world, 2) the prevalence of the religion among different ethnic groups and nationalities; 3) is strictly formed the theoretical basis of religion, 4) should be the state religion, at least in several countries; 5) cult that religion should be the same (or almost) in different countries of proliferation.
According to United Nations statistics, the world's religions have the following percentage distribution (the percentage of followers of the religion of the total population): Christianity (33%), Islam (20%), Hinduism (13%), traditional religion and beliefs of China ( 6,3%), Buddhism (5.9%).
Suprotiv group «world religions» emit a group of «regional religions», which have many followers, but only in limited areas: animism (around 30 million followers), neopaganizm (4 million followers), universalism (800 thousand followers). This religion spread in the territory, which has strict geographical scope, but, in the territory inhabited a large number of people, which is a follower of these movements. This fact makes these regional religion and beliefs so many.
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