Part I | Brief Summary

Category E | Perspectives

Topic 24 | Everyone is a religious minority

We all belong to a religious minority. Although some religions comprise a majority in one or another particular geographic area, no religion encompasses a majority of the world’s population. According to the Pew Research Center, the largest religious groups in the world are Christians (31.2%), Muslims (24.1%), and the unaffiliated (16%), followed by Hindus (15.1%), Buddhists (6.9%), and folk religionists (5.7%). Perhaps more than any other single realization, remembering that we all belong to a religious minority should help guide how we behave when we find ourselves in a majority position in some particular place and time.