- Religion in Tanzania
Current statistics on religion in
Tanzania are unavailable because religious surveys were eliminated from government census reports after 1967. [http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2007/90124.htm International Religious Freedom Report 2007: Tanzania] . United StatesBureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (September 14, 2007). "This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain ."] Religious leaders and sociologists estimate that theChristian andMuslim communities are equal, each accounting for 30 to 40 percent of the population, with the remainder consisting of practitioners of other faiths, indigenous religions, andatheists .Ninety-nine percent of the population on the
Zanzibar archipelago is Muslim. On the mainland, Muslim communities are concentrated in coastal areas, with some large Muslim minorities also in inland urban areas. Between 80 and 90 percent of the country's Muslim population isSunni ; the remainder consists of severalShi'a subgroups, mostly of Asian descent. The Christian population is composed ofRoman Catholics ,Protestants ,Pentecostals ,Seventh-day Adventists , members of theChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), and members ofJehovah's Witnesses .Foreign
missionaries operate in the country.The Constitution provides for
freedom of religion , and the Government generally respects this right in practice. Despite the increased representation of Muslims in Government, tensions between Muslims and Christians persists. There have been few cases of increased tension between secular and fundamentalist Muslims as the latter have called for Muslims to adopt a stricter interpretation of Islam in their daily lives.ee also
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Christianity in Tanzania
*Hinduism in Tanzania
*Islam in Tanzania References
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