World Religions

Geographical distribution of the world's religions.

Religion is usually defined as a cultural system of certain behaviors and practices, cosmovisions, texts, sacred places, prophecies, ethics or organizations that relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental or spiritual elements, although there is no academic consensus on what exactly constitutes a religion Bernard Lonergan approaches religion as a set of experiences, meanings, convictions, beliefs and expressions of a group, through which its participants respond to their dialectics of self-transcendence and relationship with the divine.

According to some estimates, there are about 4200 living religions in the world and countless extinct ones.A worldwide survey of 2012 reports 59% of the world population as "religious" and 36% as non-religious (including 13% of atheists) , with a decrease of 9 percentage points with respect to the religious belief of 2005. On average, women are "more religious" than men. Some people follow multiple religions or several religious principles at the same time, regardless of whether the tradition of religious principles that follow allows for syncretism or not.
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World - Categories of Maps

Thematic Map	Historical Map	Satellite Map	Political Map
Physical Map

World - Continents

Africa	Asia	Central America
Europe	Middle East	North America
South America

Gallery of World - Continents

The religions in Europe	Religions in Europe	Development of Christianity in Europe 590 to 1300
The commerce of Christendom in Europe in the 16th Century	The Great Schism of Western Christianity 1378-1417	The Great Islamic Conquests 632-750
Africa Religions and Missions 1913	Islam in Africa	Extent of Islam in the world in 1907
Muslim conquests up to 850 AD	Map to illustrate the spread of Islam	Islamic Expansion 600-750