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  Marburg Journal of Religion (September 2004) New Religion Adherents: An Overview of Anglophone Census and Survey Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Unfortunately, an Australian census table correlating religious membership with ethnicity is unavailable without paying a fee, so I was unable to obtain the same kind of figures for Western participation in Asian Religions as I did for New Zealand.
An important factor influencing the outcome of the religion aspect of the census was that someone decided it would be a fine bit of humor to encourage people to write “Jedi Knight” in the religion category.
In a country with a population of 28,000,000, the census recorded 38,000 members of alternative religions, or a participation rate of less than 0.14%.
www.uni-marburg.de /religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/art_lewis_2004.html   (3663 words)

  
 Thoughts and Meditations Archive January 2005
How often do we vainly imagine, and confidently assert, that the cloud is moving in that very direction which suits the bent of our inclination!
We want to do a certain thing, or make a certain movement, and we seek to persuade ourselves that our will is the will of God.
Jedi’s on the Rise – In a recent census of Australia, 71,000 listed their religious identification as Jedi -- from the series of Star Wars movies featuring an epic struggle between good and evil in which the Force sustains Jedi warriors fighting for good.
www.learnthebible.org /thoughts_200501.htm   (5209 words)

  
 Adherents.com
Clarke, Peter B. The New Evangelists: Recruitment, Method and Aims of New Religious Movements, London: Ethnographics (1987); pg.
Table with following columns: Movement; Total Membership; Full-Time Members; P/T Members; Sympathizers.; For this study Clarke "approached researchers and observers in the field of new religions [and org./church reps.] to obtain their opinions and any hard...
"...it is hard to avoid noticing, in the terms of contemporary religious studies scholarship, that Star Trek, in its many manifestations, has functioned at the center of a quasi-religious movement.
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_582.html   (3709 words)

  
 What Comes To Pass: February 2003 Archives
I mean its not like there is no standing for an anti-war movement.
I say this because it took a reader letter for The Times to note something which a lot of people seem to have overlooked in the current international situation.
There is a great movement of people who say "Not without the backing of the UN" or "The US is acting without UN mandate".
www.whatcomestopass.com /archives/2003_02.html   (7250 words)

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