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contexts > demography > population groups > minority groups > religious minorities

Preferred term

religious minorities  

Definition

  • At a global level, there is no majority religion; there are only religious minorities. It is only within the more limited horizons of nation-states or subnational boundaries that particular groups have predominance, and it is as against such predominance that religious minority status emerges. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Religious Minorities]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-Q1WGTFRG-7

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