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noun
1. a person who advocates the interpretation or planning of economic and foreign policy
in relation to events and developments throughout the world.
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adjective
1. relating to or advocating the operation or planning of economic and foreign policy on
a global basis.

2. globalism
[ gloh-buh-liz-uh m ]
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5. noun
6. the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of
individual nations.
What are the most widely practiced religions
of the world?
Big believers
By Dr Stephen Juan 6 Oct 2006 at 11:07

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What are the most widely practiced religions of the world?

Asked by Charlene Dupree of Toronto

There are some 4,300 religions of the world. This is according to Adherents,
an independent, non-religiously affiliated organisation that monitors the
number and size of the world's religions.

Side-stepping the issue of what constitutes a religion, Adherents divides

religions into churches, denominations, congregations, religious bodies, faith
groups, tribes, cultures, and movements. All are of varying size and influence.

Nearly 75 per cent of the world's population practices one of the five most
influential religions of the world: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and
Judaism.

Christianity and Islam are the two religions most widely spread across the
world. These two religions together cover the religious affiliation of more than
half of the world's population. If all non-religious people formed a single
religion, it would be the world's third largest.
 One of the most widely-held myths among those in English-speaking
countries is that Islamic believers are Arabs. In fact, most Islamic people do
not live in the Arabic nations of the Middle East.

The world's 20 largest religions and their number of believers are:

1. Christianity (2.1 billion)

2. Islam (1.3 billion)
3. Nonreligious (Secular/Agnostic/Atheist) (1.1 billion)
4. Hinduism (900 million)
5. Chinese traditional religion (394 million)
6. Buddhism 376 million
7. Primal-indigenous (300 million)
8. African traditional and Diasporic (100 million)
9. Sikhism (23 million)
10. Juche (19 million)
11. Spiritism (15 million)
12. Judaism (14 million)
13. Bahai (7 million)
14. Jainism (4.2 million)
15. Shinto (4 million)
16. Cao Dai (4 million)
17. Zoroastrianism (2.6 million)
18. Tenrikyo (2 million)
19. Neo-Paganism (1 million)
20. Unitarian-Universalism (800,000)

Are there more human religions or more human languages in the world?

Languages. There are some 4,300 religions of the world compared with 6,800
living languages spoken somewhere in the world.

Stephen Juan, Ph.D. is an anthropologist at the University of Sydney.

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