Talk:Religion in Armenia
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Atheists, Skeptics?
[edit]The article claims that almost 95% of Armenia's population follows Armenian Christian Church. That is hard to believe, becuase the country also has a high number of people who have no religion at all (atheists, agnostics, skeptics). I think some info should be found to demonstrate that. Has there been any such survey to show what percentage these minorities make? Pantonal (talk) 01:31, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
I am Kurdish who live in Armenia.The number of atheists or agnostics are really minimum.95-98% of population are christians. Attactos (talk) 11:53, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
Christianity since First Century>
[edit]If Christianity was introduced by two apostles in the first century, how is it that Christianity has only existed in Armenia for 1,700 years? Isn't that inconsistent? --Anietor (talk) 02:25, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
census data
[edit]I took a look at the reference for the census data and translated the table on page 7 (http://armstat.am/file/article/sv_03_13a_520.pdf) with massive help some online translating software.
Religion | Armenian | Population | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Armenian Apostolic | Հայ Առաքելակ | 2797187 | 92.66% |
Catholic | Կաթոլիկ | 13996 | 0.46% |
Orthodox | Ուղղափա | 7587 | 0.255 |
Nestorakan | Նեստորակ | 1733 | 0.06% |
Evangelical | Ավետարանակ | 29280 | 0.97% |
Jehovahs Witnesses | Եհովայի վկա | 8695 | 0.29% |
Protestant | Բողոքական | 773 | 0,03% |
Mormon | Մորմոն | 241 | 0.01% |
Molokan | Մոլոկա | 2874 | 0,10% |
Strand-Fadinakan | Շար-Ֆադինական | 23374 | 0.77% |
Heathen | Հեթանոսական | 5416 | 0.18% |
Muslim | Մահմեդական | 812 | 0.03% |
other | 5299 | 0.18% | |
no religion | 34373 | 1.14% | |
no reply | 10941 | 0.36% | |
Chnshatsner | Չնշածն | 76273 | 2.53% |
Total | 3018854 | 100% |
However several of the words seem to have been transliterated rather than translated. Any idea what 'Strand-Fadinakan' or 'Chnshatsner' mean? Or Nestorakan or Molokan? Once we get that sorted out we can put this table in the article. --Erp (talk) 00:59, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Erp: Alright, so I don't know what Shar-Fadinakan means, but Chnshats means 'not marked', Heathen (Hetanosakan) refers to a type of Paganism, Nestorakan refers to the Church of the East (also called the Nestorian Church), and Molokan refers to a esoteric Christian sect from Russia. --92slim (talk) 00:23, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
- I did some hunting on Shar-Fadinakan and it seems to refer to the religion practiced by most Yazidis (who are also counted as an ethnic group in the census). It shows up as a stub article Sharfadin --Erp (talk) 08:24, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Religion percentage in Armenia
[edit]Hi everyone, I would like to change the percentage of religion in Armenia to its correct number, the numbers that were given aren't calculated correctly and in other countries I have found that the number I want to give is correct. Can you all give me permission to edit the page to give in the correct number? Artasheshian (talk) 10:29, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
- Read my edit summary. --HistoryofIran (talk) 11:05, 24 February 2023 (UTC)