Agama di Australia
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Agama di Australia beragam. Konstitusi Australia 1901 melarang pemerintahan Persemakmuran mendirikan sebuah gereja atau mengganggu kebebasan beragama;[note 1] 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.[1] Selain itu pada 2011, 22.3% dari populasi Australia menyatakan diri "tak beragama" dan 8.6% memilih tidak menjawab pertanyaan tersebut.[1] Sisa populasinya merupakan kelompok yang beragam yang meliputi Buddha (2.5%), Muslim (2.2%), Hindu(1.3%) dan Yahudi (0.5%).[1]
Agama di Australia sesuai yang dideklarasikan dalam sensus (2011)[1]
Katolik Roma (25.1%)
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%)
Lihat pula
Kekristenan di Australia
Kekristenan di Australia selalu mengalami perubahan setiap tahunnya. Dari data sensus penduduk Australia tahun 2006 ke tahun 2011, tren perkembangan agama Kristen cenderung menurun. Tahun 2006, penduduk yang mengidentifikasikan dirinya sebagaia Kristen adalah 63.9%, tetapi di tahun 2011 turun menjadi61.1%[2]
| Gereja | Jumlah Jemaat |
2011 (%) |
Jumlah Jemaat |
2006 (%) |
Perubahan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katolik Roma | 5.397.181 | 25.1 | 5.079.505 | 25.6 | + 317.676 |
| Anglikan | 3.679.688 | 17.1 | 3.711.384 | 18.7 | - 31.696 |
| Uniting Church | 1.065.749 | 5.0 | 1.133.679 | 5.7 | - 67.930 |
| Presbiterian dan Reformed | 599.489 | 2.8 | 595.510 | 3.0 | + 3.979 |
| Kristen Independen | 470.898 | 2.2 | 312.211 | 1.6 | + 158.687 |
| Ortodoks Yunani | 383.390 | 1.8 | 374.321 | 1.9 | + 9.069 |
| Gereja Baptis | 352.482 | 1.6 | 316.150 | 1.6 | + 36.332 |
| Lutheran | 251.928 | 1.2 | 250.660 | 1.3 | + 1.268 |
| Pentakosta | 237.991 | 1.1 | 219.266 | 1.1 | + 18.726 |
| Saksi Yahowa | 85.637 | 0.4 | 80.732 | 0.4 | + 4.905 |
| Ortodoks Timur | 63.546 | 0.3 | 61.506 | 0.3 | +2.040 |
| Advent | 62.995 | 0.3 | 55.125 | 0.3 | +7.870 |
| Protestan Lainnya | 60.220 | 0.3 | 55.978 | 0.3 | +4.242 |
| Bala Keselamatan | 60.160 | 0.3 | 64.065 | 0.3 | - 3.905 |
| Mormon | 59.767 | 0.3 | 52.954 | 0.3 | + 6.813 |
| Ortodoks Makedonia | 52.056 | 0.2 | 48.057 | 0.2 | + 3.999 |
| Churches of Christ | 49.689 | 0.2 | 54.724 | 0.3 | - 5.035 |
| Ortodoks Serbia | 41.835 | 0.2 | 39.940 | 0.2 | + 1.895 |
| Katolik Maronite | 30.660 | 0.1 | 29.060 | 0.1 | + 1.600 |
| Koptik | 24.695 | 0.1 | 19.910 | 0.1 | + 4.785 |
| Ortodoks Rusia | 22.251 | 0.1 | 19.945 | 0.1 | + 2.306 |
| Kristen Lainnya | 27.019 | 0.1 | 23.827 | 0.1 | + 3.192 |
| Brethren | 21.733 | 0.1 | 24.209 | 0.1 | - 2.476 |
| TOTAL | 13.150.078 | 61.1 | 12.664.574 | 63.9 | + 485.531 |
| Non Kristen | |||||
| Atheisme | 4.796.432 | 22.3 | 3.695.707 | 18.7 | + 1.100.725 |
| Tanpa Berafiliasi | 1.838.740 | 8.6 | 2.216.636 | 11.2 | - 377.896 |
| Buddha | 528.621 | 2.5 | 417.944 | 2.1 | + 110.677 |
| Islam | 475.562 | 2.2 | 339.879 | 1.7 | + 135.683 |
| Hindu | 275.521 | 1.3 | 147.841 | 0.7 | + 127.680 |
| Yahudi | 97.332 | 0.5 | 88.695 | 0.4 | + 8.637 |
| Sikh | 72.296 | 0.3 | 26.396 | 0.1 | + 45.900 |
| Lainnya | 24.404 | 0.1 | 19.884 | 0.1 | + 4.520 |
| TOTAL | 21.504.689 | 100 | 19.812.999 | 100 | + 1.691.690 |
Catatan
- ^ Section 116 states that "The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth."
Referensi
- ^ a b c d "Cultural diversity in Australia". 2071.0 – Reflecting a Nation: Stories from the 2011 Census, 2012–2013. Biro Statistik Australia. 21 Juni 2012. Diakses tanggal 2012-06-27.
- ^ http://profile.id.com.au/australia/religion
Bacaan tambahan
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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.
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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
- Year Book Australia, 2006. Religious Affiliation section
- Australia in USA Department of State International Religious Freedom Report
- Hilary M Carey - University of Newcastle (2008). "Religion". Dictionary of Sydney. Diakses tanggal 4 October 2015. (History of Religion in Sydney) [CC-By-SA]