Christianity 2014: Independent Christianity and Slum Dwellers

The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography, by Todd M. Johnson and Brian J. Grim (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), covers the rationale, techniques, and specific problems associated with counting religionists around the world. [...]to be more consistent and to simplify the second level of our Christian classification (making it more comparable to Jewish, Muslim, and other religious classifications), we are moving all Marginals into the Independent category. [...]while formerly the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was categorized as Marginal (coded m-LdS), it is now categorized as a Northern American Independent church (NI-LdS).