Agama di Australia

Agama di Australia beragam. Konstitusi Australia 1901 melarang pemerintahan Persemakmuran mendirikan sebuah gereja atau mengganggu kebebasan beragama; namun, populasi Australia umumnya beragama Kristen. Dalam sebuah pertanyaan opsional pada Sensus 2011, 61.1% populasi Australia mendeklarasikan diri berasal dari berbagai aliran Kekristenan. Dalam sejarah, persentasenya jauh lebih tinggi dan lanskap keagamaan di Australia berubah-ubah dan beragam. Selain itu pada 2011, 22.3% dari populasi Australia menyatakan diri "tak beragama" dan 9.4% memilih tidak menjawab pertanyaan tersebut. Sisa populasinya merupakan kelompok yang beragam yang meliputi Buddha (2.5%), Muslim (2.2%), Hindu(1.3%) dan Yahudi (0.5%).

Agama di Australia sesuai yang dideklarasikan dalam sensus (2011)

  Katolik Roma (25.3%)

  Anglikan (17.1%)

  Kristen lainnya (18.7%)

  Buddha (2.5%)

  Islam (2.2%)

  Hindu (1.3%)

  Agama lainnya (1.2%)

  Tak beragama (22.3%)

  Tidak menyatakan atau tidak jelas (9.4%)

Bacaan tambahan

• Berndt, R. M., Australian Aboriginal Religion, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1974 ISBN 90-04-03861-2
• Bouma, Gary, ed. Many Religions All Australian: Religious Settlement, Identity and Cultural Diversity. Melbourne: Christian Research Association, 1997. ISBN 1-875223-14-2
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• Hunt, A. D "For God, King, and country": A study of the attitudes of the Methodist and Catholic press in South Australia (1979)
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• O'Brien, Anne. "Historical overview spirituality and work Sydney women, 1920–1960." Australian Historical Studies 33.120 (2002): 373–388.
• Thompson, Roger C. Religion in Australia: A history (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994), a standard scholarly survey

Anglikan

• B. Kaye, ed., Anglicanism in Australia: a History (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002)
• T. Frame, A Church for the Nation: a History of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 2000).
• D. Hilliard, Godliness and Good Order: A History of the Anglican Church in South Australia (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1986)
• S. Judd and K. J. Cable, Sydney Anglicans: A History of the Diocese (Sydney: Anglican Information Office, 1987)
• B. Porter, ed., Melbourne Anglicans: The Diocese of Melbourne 1847–1978 (Melbourne: Mitre Books, 1997

Katolik

• Campion, Edmund. Rockchoppers: Growing Up Catholic in Australia (1983)
• Dixon, Robert E. The Catholics in Australia (1996)
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• Laffin, Josephine. "'Sailing in Stormy Waters': Archbishop Matthew Beovich and the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide in the 1960s." Journal of Religious History 34.3 (2010): 289–311.
• McGrath, Sophie. "Women Religious in the History of Australia 1888–1950: a Case Study – the Sisters of Mercy Parramatta," Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society (1995) 81(2): 195–212
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Protestan

• Brauer, Alfred. Under the Southern Cross: History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (Lutheran Publishing House, 1985)
• Ellis, Julie-Ann. "'Cross-Firing over the Gulf': The Rift between Methodism and the Labour Movement in South Australia in the 1890s" Labour History (1993): 89–102. in JSTOR
• Hardgrave, Donlad W. For Such a Time: A History of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia (1988)
• Harrison, John. Baptism of Fire: The first ten years of the Uniting Church in Australia (1986)
• Hunt, Arnold Dudley. This Side of Heaven: A History of Methodism in South Australia (Lutheran Publishing House, 1985)

Pranala luar

• Australian Standard Classification of Religious Groups (ASCRG), 1266.0, 1996
• 1996 Census Dictionary – Religion category
• 2001 Census Dictionary – Religion category
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• Australia in USA Department of State International Religious Freedom Report
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