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For Tom, Voodoo Adherents

To: alt.magick,alt.religion.orisha,alt.religion.voodoo
From: catherine yronwode 
Subject: For Tom, re: Voodoo Adherents
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:07:03 GMT

This is a brief followup to the exchanges i recently had with Tom
Schuler in which i attempted to rebut his staement that Voodoo religion
has a "mere handful" of adherents.

The statistical list of religious affiliations given at 
     http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html 
was just revised -- as was the entire text essay on African religions. I
received notice of this from the web master today. 

The previous number given was 20 million for "Yoruba Religion" and
"Yopruba Religion" was in 9th place worldwide. 

The new figure for African Traditional and Diasporic Religion is 95
million people worldwide. This puts African religion in 8th place
worldwide.

The increase from 20 million "Yoruba" to 95 million "African" came about
by subtracting 75 million African Traditional adherents from the
lumped-together group "primal/indigenous" and placing them with African
Diasporic religions in the new African Traditional and Diasporic
category, in accordance with the sorting principle used at DMOZ.)

Neo-Paganism (including "Magick" [Thelema], Wicca, Asatru, et al)
remains in 18th place with 1 million self-declared adherents. 

Just though y'all might like to know. 

cat yronwode 

Hoodoo in Theory and Practice -- http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html

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