ABSTRACT
One of the few incontrovertible facts about religion is that it is of enormous importance worldwide. There are various ways of assessing religiosity. Two very common ones are by asking people to indicate whether religion is an important part of their daily lives and whether they attended a religious service or worship in the past week. Diener, Tay, and Myers (2011) found in a study covering 154 countries that 78 per cent of people reported religion was important in their lives. However, their data did not include China – adding data about China from a previous study, they estimated that 68 per cent of humans (approximately 4.6 billion people) regard religion as an important part of their daily lives.
