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Mississippi
Mississippi ( /ˌmɪsɨˈsɪpi/ (help·info)) is a state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi ("Great River"). The...
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Methodism
Methodism is a movement of Christianity represented by a number of organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to Reverend John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement in the...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 9 %
Church of God
The Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) is a holiness Christian body with roots in Wesleyan pietism and also in the restorationist and anabaptist traditions. Founded in 1881 by Daniel Sidney Warner, the church claims 1,170,143 adherents. While having...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 2 %
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism is a renewal movement within Christianity that places special emphasis on a direct personal experience of God through the baptism in the Holy Spirit which is evidenced by speaking in tongues. The term Pentecostal is derived from...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 3 %
Roman Catholicism
Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole. Although for many the term usually refers to...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 5 %
Baptist
A Baptist is a Christian who subscribes to a theology which are committed to believer's baptism by immersion (as opposed to infant baptism and affusion and sprinkling) and favors the congregational model of church polity. A Baptist church is a local...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 55 %
Protestantism
Protestantism is one of the four major divisions within Christianity, together with the Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Church traditions. The term 'Protestant' is most closely tied to those groups that separated...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 1 %
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a restorationist, millenarian Christian denomination. The religion reports worldwide membership of over 7 million adherents involved in evangelism; they report convention attendance of over 12 million, and annual Memorial...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 1 %
Assemblies of God
The Assemblies of God (AG), officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of national Christian denominations which together form the world's largest Pentecostal body. With over 300,000 congregations and outstations in over 212...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 1 %
Christianity
Christianity
is a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of
Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the Holy Bible. Christians
believe Jesus to be the Son of God and the Messiah prophesied in the
Old Testament. With an estimated 2.1...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 4 %
Church of Christ
Churches of Christ are autonomous Christian congregations associated with one another through common beliefs and practices. They seek to base doctrine and practice on the Bible alone, and see themselves as restoring the New Testament church...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 1 %
Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is the religion of a number of different Christian churches adhering to the Calvinist theological tradition within Protestantism, and organized according to a characteristic Presbyterian polity. Presbyterian theology typically...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 2 %
Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity which identifies with the teachings of the 16th century German reformer Martin Luther. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation. The...
As of date:
- 2002
Percent of population:
- 1 %
