Created by two of the field’s leading experts, this unique introduction to international religious demography outlines the challenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, and presents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief. 
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<li>Offers the first comprehensive overview of the field of international religious demography – detailing what we know about religious adherents around the world, and how we know it</li> <li>Examines religious freedom and diversity, including agnostics and atheists, on a global scale, highlighting trends over the past 100 years and projecting estimates for the year 2050</li> <li>Outlines the issues and challenges related to definitions, taxonomies, sources, analyses, and other techniques in interpreting data on religious adherence</li> <li>Considers data from religious communities, censuses, surveys, and scholarly research, along with several in-depth case studies on the global Muslim population, religion in China, and the religious demography of recently created Sudan and South Sudan</li> <li>Argues against the belief that the twentieth-century was a ‘secular’ period by putting forward new evidence to the contrary</li> <li>Provides resources for measuring both qualitatively and quantitatively important data on the world's religious situation in the twenty-first century</li> </ul>

The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography

Politics & Social Sciences

Johnson, Todd M.

Grim, Brian J.

Social Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

When 10 million dollars goes missing, a down-on-his-luck lawyer is given the case of a lifetime. . . if he can stay alive long enough to win it.

The Deposit Slip

Literature & Fiction

United States

Bethany House Publishers

After surviving an explosion at Hanford Nuclear Facility, two employees seek justice--and discover how far someone is willing to go to bury the truth.

Critical Reaction: a novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Fatal Trust

Riveting Legal Suspense from Lawyer Todd M. Johnson Ian Wells is a young criminal defense attorney struggling to build a Minneapolis law practice he inherited from his father while caring for a mother with Alzheimer's. Nearly at the breaking point, everything changes for Ian when a new client offers a simple case: determine whether three men qualify for over nine million dollars of trust funds. To qualify, none can have been involved in criminal activity for the past twenty years. Ian's fee for a week's work: the unbelievable sum of two hundred thousand dollars. Ian warily accepts the job--but is quickly dragged deep into a mystery linking the trust with a decades-old criminal enterprise and the greatest unsolved art theft in Minnesota history. As stolen money from the art theft surfaces, Ian finds himself the target of a criminal investigation by Brook Daniels, a prosecutor who is also his closest law school friend. He realizes too late that this simple investigation has spun out of control and now threatens his career, his future, and his life.

The Barrister and the Letter of Marque

Mystery

Large and growing subsidies to residential consumers in Mexico have become a major policy concern. This report explains the growth of subsidies, the current distribution of subsidies across income classes, and uses utility and household survey data to simulate how alternative subsidy mechanisms could improve distributional and fiscal performance. The goal is to help inform discussion in Mexico about how to reduce subsidies and redirect them toward the poor. The findings also offer lessons for other countries that are planning tariff reforms in their electricity sectors.

Residential Electricity Subsidies in Mexico: Exploring Options for Reform and for Enhancing the Impact on the Poor (160) (World Bank Working Papers)

Business & Money

Komives, Kristin

SCOTT, JOHN R.

Halpern, Jonathan D.

Aburto, Jose Luis

Economics

World Bank Publications

To reduce the risk of climate change impacts it is necessary for the world to lower the carbon intensity of economic development. 'Low-Carbon Development for Mexico' estimates the net costs, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions, and investment that would be needed to achieve a low-carbon scenario in Mexico to the year 2030.Among the key findings of the study are the following:  • Energy efficiency. Improving energy end-use efficiency in the industrial, residential, and public sectors is the least-cost option for reducing carbon emissions and can be achieved by accelerating current Mexican programs and policies. • Supply efficiency and renewable energy. Mexico can lower the carbon intensity of the economy by improving the efficiency of energy supply in the electric power and petroleum industries, and by expanding the adoption of renewable energy technologies such as wind, biomass, small hydro, and geothermal. • Public transport and vehicle fleet efficiency. Transport is the largest and fastest growing contributor of GHG emissions in Mexico, the majority of which comes from road transport. The greatest potential for reducing transport emissions lies with improving the quality and efficiency of urban transport, including more efficient vehicles and the design and organization of cities and public transport systems. • Forestry – significant potential with large co-benefits. Measures to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), along with afforestation and commercial plantations, are among the largest GHG mitigation options in Mexico, and could provide numerous social and environmental benefits in rural areas. • By undertaking a limited number of low-carbon interventions that are technologically and financially viable today, Mexico could hold carbon emissions relatively constant over the coming two decades while maintaining a vigorous rate of economic and social development. The costs of such a program would be relatively modest, but would require a range of regulatory and institutional changes to achieve, especially in the energy and transport sectors.

Low-Carbon Development for Mexico

Science & Math

Romo, Zayra

Liu, Feng

Alatorre, Claudio

Earth Sciences

This valuable resource is a global overview of world Christianity that analyzes, interprets and evaluates the country-by-country data reported in the 2001 World Christian Encyclopedia. 
Special features include the first-ever statistical survey of evangelism/ization; statistical survey of persecution and Christian martyrs; and projections to AD 2200 about Christianity and world religions. Includes glossary, bibliography, color maps, and a CD-ROM for quick reference.

World Christian Trends, Ad 30-Ad 2200: Interpreting the Annual Christian Megacensus

Religion & Spirituality

Barrett, David B.

Christian Books & Bibles

William Carey Library Pub

Countdown to 1900: World Evangelism at the End of the 19th Century (Ad07)

New Hope Pub

The World Christian Encyclopedia, now in its 3rd edition, documents the changing status of World Christianity over the past 120 years from historical and social scientific perspectives. It records the continued shift of Christianity to the Global South and contains estimates for religious and nonreligious affiliation in every country of the world, including detail on Christianity to the denominational level. This reference work features comprehensive descriptions of all Christian traditions, including current information on the uniqueness of Christian experiences around the world.

World Christian Encyclopedia: Third Edition

Reference

Zurlo, Gina A.

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Edinburgh University Press

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