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Religion & Russian State - Johnson's Russia List 6-26-03 (1617 words) |
 | Religious organizations themselves have compounded the problem, both by blurring ethnic and religious identity and by claiming a role for themselves as the approved representative of these groupings. |
| In Russia, this theory produces a definition of religious adherence that is based on ethnic origin, with the result that the conversion of a Russian to Islam or Catholicism, or that of a Tatar to Orthodoxy or the Baptist faith, is regarded as inadmissible. |
| In fall of 2002 the same religious leaders, and several senior government officials, agreed that the teaching in state schools of the "The Basics of Religious Culture" should correspond to the "titular religion" of the particular subject of the Federation. |
| Major Religions Ranked by Size (11821 words) |
| This world religions listing is derived from the statistics data in the Adherents.com database. |
| This list is based primarily on the degree of doctrinal/theological similarity among all the various sub-groups which belong to these classifications, and to a lesser extent based on diversity in practice, ritual and organization. |
| As is typical with a religious group made up primarily of converts, Baha'is who drift from active participation in the movement are less likely to retain nominal identification with the religion -- because it was not the religion of their parents or the majority religion of the surrounding culture. |
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