加拿大宗教生活.ppt

组长：曾珠海 组员：吴晓燕 陈惠平 黄敏玲 解说：吴晓燕 08号 Religious Life Overview As part of their national anthem, “O Canada,” Canadians sing: “God keep our land glorious and free.” The official French version of the song also contains a religious refrain, proclaiming that the nation is ready to carry both the sword “and the cross.” But while Canadians have sung these verses for decades, the country’s religious landscape has been changing. A new Pew Research Center(新皮尤研究中心) analysis of Canadian census (加拿大人口普查）and survey data finds that more Canadians belong to minority faiths than ever before. In addition, the number of Canadians with no religious affiliation has been rising, and attendance at religious services has been dropping. 1. Canada’s Changing Religious Composition 2. Growth of Canada’s Religiously Unaffiliated Generational Differences代际差异 Demographic Groups人口群体分布的不同 Regional Differences地域差异 3. Growth of Canada’s Religious Minorities (加拿大少数派宗教信仰人数上升) Immigration Regional Differences 4. Decline in Canadians’ Attendance at Religious Services(加拿大宗教活动出席率下降） Immigration’s Role Generational Decline Declines in Atlantic Canada and Quebec Canada’s Changing Religious Composition Two-thirds of Canadians (including adults and children) identify either as Catholic（罗马天主教） or as Protestant(新教）The percentage of Canadians who identify as Catholic has dropped from 47% to 39% over the last four decades, while the share that identifies as Protestant has fallen even more steeply, from 41% to 27%. We can get the information from the following figure： Concurrently, the number of Canadians who belong to other religions – including Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism（锡克教）, Buddhism, Judaism（犹太教） and Eastern Orthodox Christianity （东正教）– is growing. Growth of Canada’s Religiously Unaffiliated无教派的加拿大人口上升 Generational Differences(代际差异） Recent generations of Canadians are significantly less affiliated than earlier generations.相比老一代的加拿大人， 现代加拿大人明显有更多的无宗教信奉者。The figure in