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An Overview of New Information
Available on
RITA:  2002-2003

Religion-In-The-Americas

(last posted on 26 February 2004)


RITA DATABASE:
NUMBER OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS BY COUNTRY,
STATUS OF RESEARCH IN FEBRUARY 2003
AND POPULATION MID-2000


The latest version of our 
Classification System of Religious Groups in the Americas
in Spanish (pdf format, 1.3 meg)


PROLADES Occasional Bulletin:
Research on Religion-In-The-Americas (RITA)
(Vol. 1, No. 1, September 2002)


PROLADES Occasional Bulletin:
Research on Religion-In-The-Americas (RITA)
(Vol. 1, No. 2, March 2003)


News Articles with Information about PROLADES:

Latin America and Missions on the Web
by A. Scott Moreau and Mike O'Rear
(Evangelical Missions Quarterly, July 2003)

As Goes Costa Rica, So Goes the World?
by Deann Alford
(Evangelical Missions Quarterly, July 2003)


A Chronology of the Protestant Movement in the Caribbean

A Chronology of the Protestant Movement in South America

A Chronology of the Protestant Movement in the Iberian Peninsula:

SPAIN

PORTUGAL


A Study of Religious Change in Latin America
(English documents, September 2002)

Spanish Documents


Information About
New Religious Movements (NRMs) in the Americas:
September 2002


A Study of Ethnic & Religious Diversity in
the Greater Los Angeles Metro Area (GLAMA), 1997:

Revised Presentation, September 2002


Los Angeles and Chicago Metro Regions Compared:
Religious Diversity by Number of Congregations Reported in 1997

(September 2002)


UPDATED TABLES:  AUGUST 2002

STATISTICS ON RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION
IN THE AMERICAS:  SORTED BY
REGIONS AND COUNTRIES

SIZE OF THE PROTESTANT MOVEMENT
IN THE AMERICAS:  SORTED BY
REGIONS AND COUNTRIES, MID-2000

ROMAN CATHOLIC STATISTICS
FOR THE AMERICAS, 2001

LATTER-DAY SAINTS IN THE AMERICAS
(DECEMBER 2001)

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN THE AMERICAS
(DECEMBER 2001)


NEW LISTINGS, JUNE 2002

COUNTRY ARTICLES:

HISTORICAL PROFILES
OF RELIGION
IN MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA,
AND ARGENTINA


PROFILES OF
VARIOUS RELIGIOUS GROUPS:

APOSTOLIC ASSEMBLY IN USA

APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF MEXICO

GARIFUNA RELIGION

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD CHURCH

THE NEW ACROPOLIS


PRODUCTION OF NEW NATIONAL DIRECTORIES
OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS, JUNE-JULY 2002

ARGENTINA

MEXICO


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