Survey
My name is Fiona Stott and I am currently in my last year of high school. This survey is for my Personal Interest Project in one of my Higher School Certificate subjects, Society and Culture. In taking 5 minutes to complete this survey you will be helping me complete my HSC. Please answer this survey honestly and without bias. Any questions in this survey that may offend or upset you, I apologise for. Thankyou for your time.

1: Age: Sex:

2: What religion or spirituality were you born into?

Christianity Agnostic
Catholicism Protestant
Islam Uniting Church
Buddhism Other (please specify)
Hindu
Atheist

3: What religion or spirituality do you now consider yourself to be now?

Christianity Agnostic
Catholicism Protestant
Islam Uniting Church
Buddhism Other (please specify)
Hindu
Atheist


4: If you have changed your religion or spirituality since birth, please explain why.





For the following questions the definition of mainstream will be what is socially acceptable and commonly practised.

5: Which of the following religions and spiritualities do you consider to be mainstream? .

1.Christianity 7.Sikist
2.Catholicism 8.Hindu
3.Witchcraft 9.Confucianism
4.Islam 10.Scientologists
5.Buddhism 11.Judaism
6.Indigenous beliefs 12.Protestant

6: Which of the following religions and spiritualities do you consider to be not of the mainstream? Please circle.

1.Christianity 7.Sikist
2.Catholicism 8.Hindu
3.Witchcraft 9.Confucianism
4.Islam 10.Scientologists
5.Buddhism 11.Judaism
6.Indigenous beliefs 12.Protestant

Australian Census results show that there has been a 2.9% drop in Christian god based religions and a rise in Buddhism (42.9%), Hindu (54.4%) and Islam (36.2%) from 1991 to 1996.

7: Why do you feel there has been more interest in the less mainstream religions as opposed to more mainstream religions?



8: Why do you feel there has been a decline in the interest in mainstream religions?

1. Age: 44 Sex: Yes please

2. People aren't born into religion, they learn it

3. None, and btw, what the heck is the Islam Uniting Church?

4. As I said, people aren't born into a religion, so it's inevitable that everyone has changed there religion since birth. (except atheists)

5. I'm going to assume that you mean "socially acceptable and commonly practiced" in the US...since we are a society that practices religious freedom, all of these are "socially acceptable". As far as "commonly practiced", I have no statistics handy to make judgement. If you mean to include the whole world in your survey, then I would say that all of them are socially acceptable, and commonly practiced somewhere.

6. see answer to question 5

7. Many reasons. This may be a "quick question", but it certainly wouldn't be a quick answer.

8. see answer to question 7

Age: 17
Sex: Male

What religion or spirituality were you born into?

Christianity.

What religion or spirituality do you now consider yourself to be now?

Buddhist.

If you have changed your religion or spirituality since birth, please explain why.

Abuse, feelings of inner turmoil, a desire to NOT have to hate people, a feeling of fear from the followers of Christianity, a desire to think for myself.



For the following questions the definition of mainstream will be what is socially acceptable and commonly practised.

Which of the following religions and spiritualities do you consider to be mainstream?

Christianity/Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Protestantism.

Which of the following religions and spiritualities do you consider to be not of the mainstream?

Witchcraft, Confucianism, Scientology, Buddhist, Sikist, Hinduism, Other (Inidgenous)

Australian Census results show that there has been a 2.9% drop in Christian god based religions and a rise in Buddhism (42.9%), Hindu (54.4%) and Islam (36.2%) from 1991 to 1996.

Why do you feel there has been more interest in the less mainstream religions as opposed to more mainstream religions?

Because the less mainstream religions are peaceful. People desire peace more and more now, and they refuse to stay with religions (Christianity / Islam / Judaism) that advocate for hate and war.

Why do you feel there has been a decline in the interest in mainstream religions?

See above. People don't hate as much anymore.

Thankyou guys so much!! The date of completion of this project is looming ever closer and your help has been really appreciated and valued!!*HUGS*

Originally posted by fuzzy
1: Age: Sex:

older man, married with kids

2: What religion or spirituality were you born into?

Christianity Agnostic
Catholicism Protestant
Islam Uniting Church
Buddhism Other (please specify)
Hindu
Atheist

I was born into nature religions are a human{key word} teaching. I quess you could say everyone that is/was close to me is/was catholic

3: What religion or spirituality do you now consider yourself to be now?

Christianity Agnostic
Catholicism Protestant
Islam Uniting Church
Buddhism Other (please specify)
Hindu
Atheist

other, I try to follow the laws of nature, no books, no human written manuals, etc.... After all... TRUELY.... what other human knows anything about GOD
4: If you have changed your religion or spirituality since birth, please explain why.

since birth, hmmmmmmmmmm I'm not exactly sure of what I was thinking when I was born.





For the following questions the definition of mainstream will be what is socially acceptable and commonly practised.

5: Which of the following religions and spiritualities do you consider to be mainstream? .

1.Christianity 7.Sikist
2.Catholicism 8.Hindu
3.Witchcraft 9.Confucianism
4.Islam 10.Scientologists
5.Buddhism 11.Judaism
6.Indigenous beliefs 12.Protestant[quote]

For Americans I do believe it is christianity, I remember hearing something about most {religious}Americans are christian.

[quote]6: Which of the following religions and spiritualities do you consider to be not of the mainstream? Please circle.

1.Christianity 7.Sikist
2.Catholicism 8.Hindu
3.Witchcraft 9.Confucianism
4.Islam 10.Scientologists
5.Buddhism 11.Judaism
6.Indigenous beliefs 12.Protestant

It depends on where you are and who you are with. If a Wicca happens to go to a catholic church I would bet things could get ugly.

Australian Census results show that there has been a 2.9% drop in Christian god based religions and a rise in Buddhism (42.9%), Hindu (54.4%) and Islam (36.2%) from 1991 to 1996.

interesting

7: Why do you feel there has been more interest in the less mainstream religions as opposed to more mainstream religions?

not sure there is. More humans makes for more opions. In the 80's there was only 4billion folks now there is over 6.5 billion More people more ideas.



8: Why do you feel there has been a decline in the interest in mainstream religions? ]

Once again Not really sure there is a decline, depends on who you are, where you live, etc....