Talk:Religion in Asia

Proposed merge of Eastern religions into Religion in Asia

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The result of this discussion was the articles should not be merged. C933103 (talk) 12:37, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

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overlapping content -- AquaDTRS (talk) 05:36, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose - "Religion in Asia" is too broad, and the topics too disconnected. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 06:47, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

• I should clarify that Sections 1 and 2 of both articles are almost identical in structure, they list the Indian and East Asian religions and then lead on to their main articles. If there is reason to keep both article titles, one section could be merged into the other so that the content wouldn't overlap. But it appears here that Eastern religions is a subset of Religion in Asia, and a distinction can still be made if the former existed as a section in the latter. -- AquaDTRS (talk) 17:25, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose As stated by Joshua Jonathan (talk · contribs) "Religion in Asia" is too broad and merely refers to all the religions practiced in Asia (including the Western/Abrahamic religions of West and Central Asia). "Eastern religions" refers to a specific family of religions which share a common root tracing back to the belief systems of ancient India and China and primarily practiced in East, South and Southeast Asia. (Sapah3 (talk) 11:34, 27 July 2020 (UTC))

• Strongly Oppose Asian religions include both the Abrahamic religions (One-God religions) and the Eastern religions (Multiple-God religions). How can you mix up two fundamentally different topics? Kenwick (talk) 14:30, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

We should have another referendum some point since the 2 account above were mal (malipuative/malicious intent)

I also apose a merger, but just saying this discussion was rigged Doremon764 (talk) 22:43, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose – Firstly, as said above, "Eastern religions" is generally used only for the religions originating in South Asia or East Asia (and perhaps some others in the more eastern part of Asia, like Tengrism). It does not include the Abrahamic religions or Zoroastrianism. Secondly, and more importantly, this article is not just about the religions themselves, but also their history and sociology in Asia specifically. Just as we have Religion in Africa, for example, which is not just about African religions but also the history and practice of other religions (most notably Islam and Christianity) in Africa. If there were an article called "Asian religions", perhaps "Eastern religions" could be merged into it if that would not make it too large, but that is not the case. Gazelle55 (talk) 19:26, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

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Editing error in Religious distribution for East Asia

There seems to be an editing error in the Editing error in Religious distribution table for East Asia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.195.186.145 (talk) 09:06, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

What is the error? Gazelle55 (talk) 19:17, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Major populations of religions in Chinese provinces

https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2104/9326/WANG-THESIS-2015.pdf?sequence=1 has figures on the respective population in provinces. Sarcelles (talk) 20:17, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Religion in Asia

Hindu 103.220.204.19 (talk) 18:41, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Jews in distribution tables

What's the deal with all the zeroes in the Jewish columns in the Religious Distribution section? I thought to myself no way are there zero Jewish people in Japan, I know a Jewish person who lives in Japan. And then I saw Iran and Uzbekistan say they have zero Jews in the table, when earlier in this very article it says those countries have 8,756 and 4,000 Jews respectively. A reader of this (top-importance!) article could easily come away with the very inaccurate impression that there are boatloads of Asian countries with nary a single Jew, which seems to me like a serious flaw. Idaresay (talk) 23:12, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Timor Leste

At least the figures of Timor Leste and Vietnam are confused. Timor Leste is a predominantly Christian (Catholic) country. Arndt1969 (talk) 06:50, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

I see that there must be more wrong figures. Please check and correct Arndt1969 (talk) 06:53, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

First pie chart in entry

I just looked at the source (The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050. Pew Research Center. 2015-04-02. pp. 143, 191. Retrieved 2024-10-24.) for the pie chart and noticed there was a mismatch between the source and what was showing in the pie chart. I updated the reference slightly and included page numbers (from the pdf version) to the actual figures (and to the definition of the region). The figures were quite close for the most part to what was in the pie chart before so I assume I have the right source. However I also noticed that the region was Asia-Pacific not Asia alone. According to the source they define Asia-Pacific as including Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Island nations but not the Middle East ("The 60 countries and territories in the Asia and the Pacific region are: Afghanistan, American Samoa, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, North Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam and Wallis and Futuna"). The region is a mismatch with what this article covers. Erp (talk) 04:23, 24 October 2024 (UTC)