Religion in Austria
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Among religions in Austria, Roman-Catholic Christianity is the predominant one. According to the 2001 census, 73.6 percent of the country's population adhered to this denomination.[1] The number of sunday churchgoers was around 11.5 percent (as percentage of the total Austrian population that is 914.348 churchgoers out of a total population of 8.043.000 ). Since 2001, the number of Roman catholics and number of churchgoers have reduced. The latest figures (as per the end of 2005) available from the Austrian Roman Catholic church itself, list 5.663 million members or 68.5 percent of the total Austrian population and a weekly Roman Catholic church attendance of 753.701 or 9 percent of the total Austrian population. The number of Lutherans declined from 5.7 percent in 1971 to 4.7 in 2006. Meanwhile, the number of Muslims is on the increase, with 4.2 percent. There are also minor communities of Hindus, Buddhists and Jews in Austria.
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| Catholic | Protestant | Muslim | Other | Unspecified | None |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68.5% | 4.7% | 4.2% | 3.5% | 2% | 17.1% |
[edit] History
Austria was greatly affected by the Protestant reformation, to the point where a majority of the populatioin were eventually Protestant. Due to the prominent position of the Habsburgs in the Counter-Reformation, however, Protestantism was all but wiped out and Catholicism once more restored to the dominant religion. The significant Jewish population (around 200,000 in 1938) in the country, mainly residing in Vienna, was reduced to a mere couple of thousand by the mass emigration in 1938 (more than 2/3 of the Jewish population emigrated from 1938 until 1941) and the following Holocaust during the Nazi regime in Austria. Immigration in more recent years, primarily from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia, has led to an increase in the number of Muslims and Serbian Orthodox Christians.
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Religion in Austria on CIA World Factbook. Retrieved on December 13, 2006.
[edit] External link
- Religion in Austria on Sacred Destinations
- Jewish History of Austria
- Roman Catholic statistics for the year 2005
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