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Top World Religions

Religiously unaffiliated rank third among religious adherents worldwide India Eid al Fitr Source: AP Photo/Channi Anand Related Links Countries with Largest Unaffiliated Populations…

Median Age of Religious Adherents

The table below lists the ascending median age of the world's top eight religious groups. The figures are from 2012, the last year from which we have a thorough global survey.  Religion Median…

Top Eight World Religions

The world's most popular religions 83% of the world's population is religious, give or take a few points. But, the numbers of those religious people varies wildly across different religions. The…

William Penn

William Penn was an influential English Quaker and founder of the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682. He was the son of Admiral Sir William Penn and joined the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the 1660s…

Brewer's: Odium Theologicum

The bitter hatred of rival religionists. No wars so sanguinary as holy wars; no persecutions so relentless as religious persecutions, no hatred so bitter as theological hatred. Source:…

Brewer's: Behmenists

A sect of visionary religionists, so called from Jacob Behmen (Böhme), their founder. (1575-1625.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BehramBehemoth A B C D…

The Fundamental Principle of a Republic

by Anna Howard Shaw Shaw delivered this speech during the 1915 New York State equal suffrage campaign at a fully packed City Opera House in Ogdenburg on the evening of June 21. The…