Religious affiliation in 2021 Christianity (43.9%) No religion (38.9%) Islam (3.2%) Hinduism (2.7%)
Officially, Australia is a secular country. Section 116 of the Australian Constitution prohibits the federal government from creating a state church.
The most common category for Australians' belief in God is that they are believers, who believe now and always have (47%) and second are non-believers who don't believe in God and never have (26%).
The first group of British settlers and convicts included people from a variety of Christian denominations, usually reflecting the place of their birth. Around 1788 - The first religion to reach Australia was Christianity lead by the captain of the first fleet: Richard Johnson. Johnson was an evangelistic minister.
Religious affiliation in 2021
In 2021 the most common religions were: Christianity (43.9%) No religion (38.9%) Islam (3.2%)
Christianity is the largest religion in Australia, with a total of 43.9% of the nation-wide population identifying with a Christian denomination.
The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म, lit.
Religion. Although Australia is a predominantly Christian country with about 52% of all Australians identifying as Christian, there is no official state religion. People in Australia are free to practice any religion they choose, as long as they are not breaking the law.
From origins as a suppressed, mainly Irish minority in early colonial times, the church has grown to be the largest Christian denomination in Australia, with a culturally diverse membership of around 5,075,907 people, representing about 19.9% of the overall population of Australia according to the 2021 ABS Census data.
In the country's 2021 census, 38.9% of Australians (or 9,886,957 people) selected either "no religion" or specified their form of irreligion, almost nine percent higher (and 2,846,240 more people) than the 2016 census.
Christianity. Australia's major religion is Christianity with the major denominations, in order of size, being Catholic, Anglican, Uniting Church, Eastern Orthodox, Presbyterian and Reformed, Baptist and Pentecostal. 30% of the Australian population reported that they were either Anglican or Catholic in the 2021 Census ...
ADAM1 was the first man. There are two stories of his creation. The first tells that God created man in his image, male and female together (Genesis 1: 27), and Adam is not named in this version.
Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer who proclaimed the imminent Kingdom of God and was crucified c. AD 30–33 in Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea.
Australia is a secular country with a diverse migrant population and over 120 faiths, yet Australia has traditionally been a majority Christian country.
More recent study published in 2022 by Pew Research Center, have found a retention rate among American Christians closer to 67%, and cited that the decline of Christianity is primarily due to people leaving Christianity and choosing to have no religious affiliation (rather than due to people converting to other ...
Local culture
The culture of Australia is a Western culture derived primarily from Britain but also influenced by the unique geography of the Australian continent, the diverse input of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other Oceania people.
Christianity is the most common religion in Australia, with over 40 per cent (43.9 per cent) identifying as Christian.
Forty-four per cent of Australians identify as Christian, down from 61 per cent a decade ago. The share of people ticking the “no religion” box grew from 22 per cent in 2011 to 39 per cent in 2021. The number of people in Australia who identify as Hindu surged by 55 per cent over the past five years.