religion web site statistics

Paul Arveson (bridges@his.com)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:09:35 -0400

Here are some statistics on the number of religion web sites at
AltaVista, sorted by quantity of each kind. The links can be found at:
http://dir.altavista.com/Society/220727/220725.shtml

Christianity - 21707
Paganism - 1523
Buddhism - 988
Judaism - 727
Islam - 398
New Age - 378
Vampire - 378
Unitarian Universalism - 328
Unity - 263
Scientology - 242
Freemasonry - 223
Asatru - 220
Atheism - 198
Wicca - 190
Spiritualism - 158
Fourth Way - 139
Bahai - 135
Mysticism - 114
Yoga - 70
Satanism - 64
Hinduism - 57
Humanism - 44
Shamanism - 41
Taoism - 33
Vodun - 31
Agnosticism - 20
Gnosticism - 19
Jainism - 19
Ethical Culture - 18
Pantheism - 18
Sikhism - 13
Zoroastrian - 13
Cao Dai - 10
Shintoism - 8
Eckankar - 6
Rastafarianism - 6
Romuvra - 6
Deism - 2
Qadianism - 1

The data indicate how many sites AltaVista has catalogued, and someone
has apparently identified the appropriate religion for each. Note that
these
data merely represent a sampling of the number of web sites currently up.
The data are interesting for many reasons; I will leave it up to you to
interpret.

Paul Arveson