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| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freud | USA | - | - | - | - | 1912 | Reeves, Thomas C. Twentieth Century America: A Brief History. New York: Oxford University Press (2000); pg. 48. | "In 1912 Margaret Sanger, founder of the birth control movement in America, was a radical Socialist and militant feminist... Mrs. Sanger, one of eleven children and the mother of three, had personally discarded the Victorian view of marriage, sex, and the family accepted by the vast majority of Americans. Her radicalism stemmed in part from childhood experiences and the challenging new literature on sexual psychology by Sigmund Freud and Havelock Ellis. " |
| Freud | USA | - | - | - | - | 1928 | Reeves, Thomas C. Twentieth Century America: A Brief History. New York: Oxford University Press (2000); pg. 86. | "Many urban women, strongly influenced by the cultural and technological innovations of the ear, began to take jobs outside the home; by 1928 five time as many women were employed as in 1918... They also experimented with sex and talked freely about the fashionable theories of Sigmund Freud. The new freedom led to a sharp rise in the divorce rate... " |
| Freud | world | - | - | - | - | 1927 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 251. | "The psychopathological theory of piety has appeared in many forms, all of them bristling with antagonism and contempt. Consider Freud, who managed to characterize religion as a 'neurosis,' an 'illusion,' a 'poison,' an 'intoxicant,' and 'childishness to be overcome' all on one page of his famous book on the subject (1927, p. 88). But the evidence failed to cooperate. In a survey of all published empirical studies Allen E. Bergin (1983) found that most reported a positive, rather than a negative, relationship between religiousness and mental health, and that most of the studies that did report a positive assocition between religion and psychopathology were tautological, having included religious items in their measures of psychopathology. " |
| Freud | world | - | - | - | - | 1938 | Yenne, Bill. 100 Men Who Shaped World History. San Francisco, CA: Bluewood Books (1994); pg. 82. | "In 1900, Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, in which he sought to quantify and categorize the complex activities of the human subconscious. In 1906, he co-founded the International Congress of Psychoanalysis with several colleagues... After his death [1939], the popularity of psychoanalysis, the medical discipline which he founded, continued to grow, especially in the United States in the two decades following World War II. Today, the therapeutic approaches he pioneered continue to be used in modified forms by many psychiatrists to treat various mental disorders... " |
| Freud | world | - | - | - | - | 1939 | Osborne, Richard. Philosophy for Beginners. New York, NY: Writers and Readers Publishing (1992); pg. 144. | "Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Someone else who put a spanner in the smooth workings of philosophy was the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud... There is a large debate about whether Psychoanalysis is a science and whether Freud was right about human sexual development and the Unconscious. The revolutionary importance of his ideas derived from his insistence on the centrality of sexuality in all aspects of human existence. This also explained in part why his ideas were resisted... Many philosophers have opted for the line that since psychoanalysis isn't empiracally testable (you can't photograph the Unconscious), Freud can safely be ignored. " |
| Freud | world | - | - | - | - | 1940 | *LINK* Hexham, Irving. Concise Dictionary of Religion. Carol Stream, USA: InterVarsity Press (1994). (v. online 6 Oct. 1999) | "FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1940). Austrian neurologist and founder of PSYCHOANALYSIS. Worked on the treatment of hysteria by hypnosis but later developed a method of treatment in which he replaced hypnosis by free association of ideas. Believed that a complex of repressed and forgotten impressions underlies all abnormal mental states such as hysteria and developed the theory that dreams are an unconscious representation of repressed desires, especially of sexual desires. Strongly ANTI-CHRISTIAN, he authored The Future of an Illusion (1927) and Moses and Monotheism (1939), works which develop the projectionist theories similar to FEUERBACH. In many respects his technique of psychoanalysis can be seen as a FORM of SECULAR MYSTICISM reminiscent of JEWISH mystical thought. " |
| Freud | world | - | - | - | - | 1999 | Gallagher, Winifred. Working on God. New York: Random House (1999); pg. xxiv. | "If religion--the record of our struggle to understand why we exist and what we sould therefore do--has tragic flaws, so do the modern secular 'faiths' of Marx and Freud that not long ago seemed destined to replace it. " |
| Friends Church Southwest | USA | - | - | 6 units |
1 country |
1990 | Naisbitt, John & Patricia Aburdene. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's. New York: William Morrow and Co. (1990); pg. 291. | "In his former job as director of church planning for Friends Church Southwest, a [sic] evangelical branch of Quakerism in Whittier, California, Norman Whan and associates started six churches in Southern California and Arizona, including Desert View Friends Church in Hesperia, California.' |
| Friends General Conference | New York: Buffalo | 30 | - | 1 unit |
- | 1926 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997). [Orig. source: 1926 U.S. govt. census from Bureau of the Census, 1930, vol. 1]; pg. 8. | "Table 31. Number of churches, membership [incl. children]... 1926 "; Reports prepared by pastors/boards of elders. Listed in table as Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite), the only body under subheading "Friends ". |
| Friends General Conference | North America | 32,000 | - | 490 units |
2 countries |
1988 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.) The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); Chapter: European Free-Church Family; section: Quakers (Friends); pg. 319-320. | "Friends General Conference... Philadelphia, PA [H.Q.]... is an association of otherwise autonomous yearly meetings in the U.S. and Canada... In general the yearly meetings which make up the conference continue the tradition most associated with Elias HIcks (1748-1830)... Membership: In 1988 the conference reported approximately 32,000 affiliated Quakers in 490 meetings and worship groups. Approximately 26,000 households receive The FGC Quarterly. " |
| Friends General Conference | USA | 27,000 | 0.01% | - | - | 1969 | Bacon, Margaret H. The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America; New York: Basic Books (1969); pg. 8. | "The Friends General Conference represents primarily Eastern Friends and has a membership of 27,000 " [Total U.S. pop. stated on pg. 4 as 200 million] |
| Friends General Conference | USA | 26,000 | - | - | - | 1981 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 267. | "The major [Quaker] groups in the United States are... Friends General Conference (liberal; 26,000)... " |
| Friends General Conference | USA | 30,902 | - | 520 units |
- | 1991 | Bedell, Kenneth (ed.). Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches 1993. Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn (1993); pg. 248-255. | Table 2: US Current Stats. (# of adherents from table's "inclusive membership " column, not sometimes smaller "full communicant " col.) Listed in table as "Friends General Conference. " |
| Friends General Conference | USA | 31,415 | - | 602 units |
- | 1996 | World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998; K-III Reference Corp.: Macwah, NJ (1997). [Orig. sources: 1997 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches; World Almanac research]; pg. 651. | Table: "Membership of Religious Groups in U.S. "; Membership figs. generally based on reports from officials by each group. Figs. are inclusive: refer to all "members, " not simply full communicants. |
| Friends General Conference | USA | 32,000 | - | 620 units |
- | 1998 | World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. Mahwah, NJ: PRIMEDIA Reference Inc. (1999). [Orig. sources: 1999 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches; World Almanac research]; pg. 692. | Table: "Membership of Religious Groups in U.S. "; Based on reports from officials by each group. Figs. inclusive; refer to all "members ". Listed as Friends General Conference |
| Friends General Conference | world | 31,600 | - | 505 units |
- | 1990 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 118. | "Friends General Conference: This is a national organization of yearly meetings (Baltimore, Lake Erie, South Central, Canada, New England, Illinois, Indiana, Southeastern, New York, and Philadelphia)... There are now 31,600 members and 505 meetings in the general conference, a fraction of which also belong to Friends United Meeting; this is explained by dual membership in Canada, New York and New England in the General Conference and in Friends United Meeting. " |
| Friends General Conference | world | 32,000 | - | - | - | 1993 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (10th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1995). | - |
| Friends General Conference | world | 35,000 | - | 500 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* web site: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance | Friends General Conference links together about 500 meetings and worship groups, comprising some 35,000 members. They follow the original "unprogrammed " style of worship service, and are largely an outgrowth of the Hicksite movement. |
| Friends United Meeting | Africa | 45,000 | - | - | - | 1978 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 267. | "Of the nearly 200,000 Friends in the world in 1978, 121,000 were in the U.S., 20,000 in Great Britain, 45,000 in Africa (F.U.M. converts)... " |
| Friends United Meeting | North America | 58,357 | - | 547 units |
- | 1987 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 118-119. | "Friends United Meeting (Five Years Meeting)... With 58,357 members and 547 local meetings in 1987, this is the largest single Friends body in the U.S. Organized in 1902, it brought together in one cooperative relationship 18 yearly meetings at home and six abroad--in East Africa, Cuba, and Jamaica... Membership is concentrated in North Carolina, Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa. " |
| Friends United Meeting | North America | 58,000 | - | - | - | 1987 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.). The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); pg. 321. | "In 1987 the Meeting had approximately 58,000 members in the U.S. and Canada " |
| Friends United Meeting | North America | 60,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* web site: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance | Friends United Meeting which coordinates 14 yearly meetings and includes about 60,000 members in North America, and 140,000 worldwide. They are an outgrowth of the "Orthodox " group. They publish a periodical, Quaker Life |
| Friends United Meeting | USA | 66,000 | 0.03% | - | - | 1969 | Bacon, Margaret H. The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America; New York: Basic Books (1969); pg. 8. | "the Friends United Meeting, with headquarters in the Midwest, counts 66,000 " [Total U.S. pop. stated on pg. 4 as 200 million] |
| Friends United Meeting | USA | 65,000 | - | - | - | 1979 | Carmody, Denise Lardner & John Tully Carmody. Western Ways to the Center: An Introduction to Western Religions; Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co. (1983); pg. 122. | Table: "Membership Data on Major American Religious Groups [1979] "; [Listed as "Friends United Meeting (Quakers) "] |
| Friends United Meeting | USA | 66,000 | - | - | - | 1981 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 267. | "The major [Quaker] groups in the United States are the Friends United Meeting (moderately evangelical; 66,000)... " |
| Friends United Meeting | USA | 50,803 | - | - | - | 1991 | Bedell, Kenneth (ed.). Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches 1993. Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn (1993); pg. 248-255. | Table 2: US Current Stats. (# of adherents from "inclusive membership " column, not sometimes smaller "full communicant " col.) Listed in table as "Friends United Meeting. " |
| Friends United Meeting | USA | 55,015 | - | 535 units |
- | 1993 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (10th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1995). | Under the subheading: "Friends United Meeting (Five Years Meeting) " |
| Friends United Meeting | USA | 43,680 | - | 503 units |
- | 1996 | World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998; K-III Reference Corp.: Macwah, NJ (1997). [Orig. sources: 1997 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches; World Almanac research]; pg. 651. | Table: "Membership of Religious Groups in U.S. "; Membership figs. generally based on reports from officials by each group. Figs. are inclusive: refer to all "members, " not simply full communicants. |
| Friends United Meeting | USA | 32,000 | - | 620 units |
- | 1998 | World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. Mahwah, NJ: PRIMEDIA Reference Inc. (1999). [Orig. sources: 1999 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches; World Almanac research]; pg. 692. | Table: "Membership of Religious Groups in U.S. "; Based on reports from officials by each group. Figs. inclusive; refer to all "members ". Listed as Friends United Meeting |
| Friends United Meeting | world | 198,000 | - | - | - | 1987 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.) The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); Chapter: European Free-Church Family; section: Quakers (Friends); pg. 320-321. | "Friends United Meeting... Richmond, IN [H.Q.]... The largest of all Quaker bodies, the Five Years Meeting of Friends was formed in 1902... There are 18 annual meetings: Baltimore, Canadian, Cuba, East Africa, East Africa (South), Elgon, Indiana, Jamaica, Iowa, Nairobi (Kenya), Nebraska, New England, New York, North Carolina, South West, Southwestern, Western, and Wilmington... Membership: In 1987 the Meeting had approximately 58,000 members in the U.S. and Canada with an additional 140,000 members in Africa, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, and Israel. " |
| Friends United Meeting | world | 140,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* web site: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance | Friends United Meeting which coordinates 14 yearly meetings and includes about 60,000 members in North America, and 140,000 worldwide. They are an outgrowth of the "Orthodox " group. They publish a periodical, Quaker Life |
| Friends World Committee for Consultation | world | 300,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* web site: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance | About 60 Yearly Meetings and groups, representing more than 300,000 Friends, are affiliated with the FWCC. |
| Frisians | world | 600,000 | - | - | 4 countries |
1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 4 - Europe. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 164-165. | "Location [of Frisians]: The Netherlands (province of Friesland); Germany; Denmark; North America; [Total] Population [of world's Frisians]: 600,000 "; "While only about one-third of all Netherlanders are Protestants, Protestantism is the majority religion in Friesland. About 85% of its residents belong to one of two Calvinist churches, the Dutch Reformed Church (Hervormde Kerk) or the Reformed Church (Gereformeerde Kerk), and 5% are Mennonites. Some Frisians still retain certain pre-Christian beliefs (called byleauwe) dating back to the period before the introduction of Christianity to Friesland by the Franks in the 8th and 9th centuries. " |
| Fuji-ko | Japan | - | - | - | - | 1515 C.E. | Bocking, Brian. A Popular Dictionary of Shinto. Surrey, England: Curzon (1996); pg. 27. | "Fuji-ko: A sect, popular during the Tokugawa period, devoted to the climbing of Mt. Fuji. It was founded in the early sixteenth century by Hasegawa, Takematsu (known as Kakugyo). It was one of more than 800 Fuji sects. See e.g. Fuso-kyo, Jikko-kyo. " |
| Fula | Gambia | - | - | - | 1 country |
1995 | Haskins, J. From Afar to Zulu. New York: Walker Pub. (1995); pg. 191-7. | Table: Add'l African Cultures |
| Fulani | Africa | 6,000,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 1 - Africa. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 169. | "Fulani: Location: From the western part of West Africa (Senegambia) to Chad in the east (some groups reaching as far as the Nile river in the countries of Sudan and Ethiopia); largest concentrations in Nigeria, Senegal, and Guinea; Population: More than 6 million; Religion: Islam "; [NOTE: This statistic is a measure of tribal/ethnic affiliation, NOT a distinct religion, as the Fulani are Muslim.] |
| Fulani | Cameroon | 1,250,000 | 10.00% | - | - | 1997 | Dostert, Pierre Etienne. Africa 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997); pg. 66. | Estimates of % of population in ethnic (NOT religious) backgrounds, & est. 1997 total pop. |
| Fulani | Gambia | 196,000 | 14.00% | - | - | 1997 | Dostert, Pierre Etienne. Africa 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997); pg. 44. | Estimates of % of population in ethnic (NOT religious) backgrounds, & est. 1997 total pop. |
| Fulani | Guinea-Bissau | 260,000 | 20.00% | - | - | 1997 | Dostert, Pierre Etienne. Africa 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997); pg. 52. | Estimates of % of population in ethnic (NOT religious) backgrounds, & est. 1997 total pop. |
| Fulani | Nigeria | 10,071,000 | 9.00% | - | - | 1988 | Bratvold, Gretchen (ed). Nigeria ...in Pictures (Visual Geography Series). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications Co. (1988); pg. 33, 37. | Pg. 33: "...Nigeria's 111.9 million people... "; Pg. 37: "The Fulbe [an ethnic group] (called the Fulani by the Hausa) have two distinct lifestyles--one that is settled and one that is wandering... they make up 9% of the population [of Nigeria]. " |
| Fulani | Senegal | 1,470,000 | 17.50% | - | - | 1997 | Dostert, Pierre Etienne. Africa 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997); pg. 59. | Estimates of % of population in ethnic (NOT religious) backgrounds, & est. 1997 total pop. |
| Full Faith Church of Love | Kansas | 3,500 | - | 1 unit |
- | 1992 | *LINK* Thumma, Scott. web site: "Megachurches in the U.S. " (viewed Aug. 20, 1999; data collected 1992; last updated Aug. 19, 1999). Center for Social & Religious Research, Hartford Seminary. | Table; "size " is avg. weekly attendance. Study finding all U.S megachurches.; Indep. cong. in Shawnee, Kansas; pastor Ernie Gruen. |
| Full Gospel | Australia | 2,108 | 0.01% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Parliament of Australia web site; page: "Census 96: Religion " (viewed 18 Dec. 1999) | Self-identification, from 1996 govt. census. [Listed in table as "Full Gospel Church "] |
| Full Gospel | New Zealand | 432 | 0.01% | - | - | 1986 | *LINK* web site: "VisionNet Census " (created by a Protestant group); web page: Pentecostal groups (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); original source: Statistics New Zealand | Data taken from New Zealand national censuses, based on self-identification, down to denominational level. |
| Full Gospel | New Zealand | 534 | 0.02% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "VisionNet Census " (created by a Protestant group); web page: Pentecostal groups (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); original source: Statistics New Zealand | Data taken from New Zealand national censuses, based on self-identification, down to denominational level. |
| Full Gospel | New Zealand | 474 | 0.01% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "VisionNet Census " (created by a Protestant group); web page: Pentecostal groups (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); original source: Statistics New Zealand | Data taken from New Zealand national censuses, based on self-identification, down to denominational level. |
| Full Gospel | North Carolina: New Hanover County | - | - | 8 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* web site (1998): Wilmington Morning Star (N. Carolina newspaper); Special/Thursday, Aug. 20, 1998 | "in New Hanover County... This list of active religious groups is based primarily on Southern Bell's Yellow Pages and the Morning Star's weekly list of worship services " [List of churches & # of congregations] |
| Full Gospel | South Africa | 220,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year; pg. 781-783. | Table: "Religion ": Divided by nations, with 2 columns: "Religious affiliation " & "1996 pop. " [of that religion]. Based on best avail. figures, whether census data, membership figures or estimates by analysts, as % of est. 1996 midyear pop. |
| Full Gospel | USA | 51,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 15-17. | Table 1-2: Self-Described Adherence of U.S. Adult Population 1990. Phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by Graduate School of City U. of New York. |
| Full Gospel Assemblies International | USA | 3,800 | - | 150 units |
- | 1984 | Bedell, Kenneth (ed.). Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches 1993. Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn (1993); pg. 248-255. | Table 2: US Current Stats. (# of adherents from "inclusive membership " column, not sometimes smaller "full communicant " col.) Listed in table as "Full Gospel Assemblies International. " |
| Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship | USA | 50,000 | - | 2,700 units |
- | 1988 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 109. | "...the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship [a special purpose group, NOT a religion or denomination], an organization founded in 1953 to promote the charismatic gifts of glossalia and faith healing among members of established denominations, counts some 50,000 members among its 2,700 local chapters. " |
| Full Gospel Church Association | world | 2,010 | - | 67 units |
- | 1967 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.) The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); Chapter: Pentecostal Family; section: White Trinitarian Holiness Pentecostals; pg. 238. | Church reporting. |
| Full Gospel Defenders Conference of America | Pennsylvania | - | - | - | - | 1991 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.) The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); Chapter: Pentecostal Family; section: Other Pentecostals; pg. 294. | "Full Gospel Defenders Conference of America. Current address not obtained for this edition... is a small Pentecostal body with headquarters in Philadelphia... Membership: Not reported. " |
| Full Gospel Evangelistic Association | world | 4,000 | - | 30 units |
- | 1975 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.) The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); Chapter: Pentecostal Family; section: White Trinitarian Pentecostals; pg. 248. | Church reporting. |
| Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International | Canada | - | - | 3 units |
- | 1988 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.). The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); pg. 256. | "In 1988 the fellowship reported... 3 clergy members from Canada... " |
| Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International | USA | 65,000 | - | 450 units |
- | 1985 | Bedell, Kenneth (ed.). Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches 1993. Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn (1993); pg. 248-255. | Table 2: US Current Stats. (# of adherents from "inclusive membership " column, not sometimes smaller "full communicant " col.) Listed in table as "Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International. " |
| Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International | USA | - | - | 423 units |
- | 1988 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.). The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); pg. 256. | "In 1988 the fellowship reported 800 clergy members and 423 congregation members in the U.S. " |
| Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International | USA | 195,000 | - | 650 units |
- | 1995 | *LINK* web site for Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches (accessed 1998); [Orig. source: Source: Kenneth B. Bedell, editor, Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, annual.] | Table: 1997 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches: U.S. Religious Bodies with more than 60,000 Members "; "...prepared for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census... for the 1997 edition of the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. " |
| Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International | USA | 195,000 | - | 650 units |
- | 1996 | World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998; K-III Reference Corp.: Macwah, NJ (1997). [Orig. sources: 1997 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches; World Almanac research]; pg. 651. | Table: "Membership of Religious Groups in U.S. "; Membership figs. generally based on reports from officials by each group. Figs. are inclusive: refer to all "members, " not simply full communicants. |
| Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International | USA | 195,000 | - | 650 units |
- | 1998 | World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. Mahwah, NJ: PRIMEDIA Reference Inc. (1999). [Orig. sources: 1999 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches; World Almanac research]; pg. 692. | Table: "Membership of Religious Groups in U.S. "; Based on reports from officials by each group. Figs. inclusive; refer to all "members ". Listed as Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers Intl. |
| Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International | world | - | - | 473 units |
17 countries |
1988 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.) The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); Chapter: Pentecostal Family; section: Deliverance Pentecostals; pg. 256. | "Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International... Dallas, TX [H.Q.]... In the early 1960s, Gordon Lindsay, founder of the Christ for the Nations Institute, in Dallas, Texas, and publisher of The Voice of Healing magazine, called together a gropu of independent Pentecostal ministers... the Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International was formed in 1962. The fellowship has adopted a set of Suggested Articles of Faith that they offer to member churches... individual churches may choose to revise the articles... The fellowship is an organized association of independent churches and is designed to perform only those services that churches cannot easily or coveniently provide for themselves... Membership: In 1988 the fellowship reported 800 clergy members and 423 congregation members in the U.S. There were 3 clergy members from Canada & 47 clergy members from 15 countries worldwide. " |
| Full Gospel Missionary Society | Canada | - | - | 5 units |
- | 1975 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.). The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); pg. 295. | "1970s there were 8 churches, 3 in Washington and 5 in Canada. " |
| Full Gospel Missionary Society | USA | - | - | 3 units |
- | 1975 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.). The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); pg. 295. | "1970s there were 8 churches, 3 in Washington and 5 in Canada. " |
| Full Gospel Missionary Society | Washington | - | - | 3 units |
- | 1975 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.). The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); pg. 295. | "1970s there were 8 churches, 3 in Washington and 5 in Canada. " |
| Full Gospel Missionary Society | world | - | - | 8 units |
2 countries |
1975 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.) The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); Chapter: Pentecostal Family; section: Other Pentecostals; pg. 294-295. | "Full Gospel Missionary Society... Vancouver, BC, Canada [H.Q.]. The Latter Rain Movement... Among the first places which leaders of the new movement were invited to speak was the Glad Tiding Temple in Vancouver, British Columbia where Reg Layzell pastored. Layzell became an enthusiastic supporter of the revival and the Temple became a major center from which the revival spread around the continent. The Glad Tidings Missioary Society began as an extension of the Glad Tidings Temple of Vancouver, British Columbia. Over the years, other congregations affected by the Latter Rain (in Canada and the state of Washington) became associated with the Temple through it. It has become a primary religious body itself. Mission work is conducted in Africa, Taiwan, and the Arctic. Membershipo: Not reported. In the 1970s there were eight churches, three in Washington and five in Canada. " |
Full Gospel Missionary Society, continued 