[19], In a May 2012 review of the 2011 census, the Dáil Public Accounts Committee asked the Central Statistics Office about the reliability of self-reported answers, instancing people listing Jedi as their religion. But the Australian Bureau of Statistics said it would be This Petition is to have Jedi/ism recognised as a religion by the Australian Government. This makes Australia seem more religious than it really is." The ABS announced that any answers that were Jedi-related in the religion question were to be classified as "not defined" and stressed the social impact of making misleading or false statements on the census. people declared they were Jedi, it would be recognised as an official [34] In the 2001 Census, 2.6% of the population of Brighton claimed to be Jedi. The joke arose years ago when an email campaign wrongly claimed that if 8,000 people put themselves down as Jedi it would have to be officially recognised as a religion. The Jedi phenomenon started in 2001 when an email campaign claimed that the Australian government would recognise it as a religion if 8,000 people wrote it on the census. According to 2011 census figures, the number of Jedi had fallen to 176,632, placing it in seventh place, having been overtaken by Judaism and Buddhism, but still comfortably outnumbering any other alternative or mock religions. The details were obtained in a Freedom of Information request by Jane's Police Review. The letter, written by Simon Cohen of the Global Tolerance public relations agency,[44] requested that it be renamed the "UN Interstellar Day of Tolerance" and cited the 2001 Census showing 390,000 Jedi in England and Wales. down Jedi for fun, we don't actually have a religion of our own'. In England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as Jedi on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the country. advice of the e-mail - with Jedi Knight even being included on the There was a fall in the number of New Zealand Jedi five years later, with some 20,000 people giving this as their religion in the 2006 census. that 70,000 that were true hard-core people that would believe the Religion in Australia is diverse. John Pullinger, Director of Reporting and Analysis for the Census, noted that many people who would otherwise not have completed a Census form did so solely to record themselves as Jedi, so this joke helped to improve the quality of the Census. In Australia in 2016, the largest religious group was Western (Roman) Catholic (22.3% of all people), while 29.9% of people had no religion and 9.1% did not answer the question on religion. government a bit of curry," he said. [11], In the lead-up to the 2006 census, there were reports that writing Jedi on the 2006 census could lead to a fine for providing "false or misleading" information. Such objectors generally have a very literal approach to religion in which religious and historical teachings are supposed to be identical. The Office for National Statistics revealed the total figure in a press release entitled "390,000 Jedi there are". [17], The 2011 census preliminarily recorded 15,070 people answering the voluntary question on religion as belonging to the Jedi religion, described by the Czech Statistics Office as "the moral values of the Jedi knights". ", "National Household Survey: Number of 'Jedi Knights' in Canada dwindling", "Při sčítání uveďme víru z Hvězdných válek, vyzývají se lidé na internetu", "Předběžné výsledky Sčítání lidů, domů a bytů 2011", "Dáil committee ponders existence of Jedi knights", "A TD wants to know: How many Jedi Knights are there in Ireland? It seems unlikely that all these people truly believe themselves to be actual Jedi, and most of them make the claim as a harmless way to declare their Star Wars fandom and give the government the middle finger at the same time. The 2016 Census of Population and Housing reveals that threefifth of the population in Australia are affiliated to some or the otherreligious beliefs .Christianity is once again the most dominant of the all with account of seventy two percent beingidentified as Christian. Tuesday, 27 August, 2002, 07:29 GMT 08:29 UK, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2218456.stm. But the majority do not seriously tell each other: "May the force In 1966, Christianity (88 per cent) was the main religion. [27], In 2012, it was reported that 640 Serbs had identified as Jedi. The office noted that this is an international phenomenon. Passion, yet serenity. As of 2011, 64,000 Australians claimed their religion as "Jedi." A recent census found that one in 270 respondents - or 0.37% of the population - say they believe in "the force", an energy field that gives Jedi Knights like Luke Skywalker their power in the films. [1] The Australian Bureau of Statistics issued an official press release[2] in response to media interest on the subject. Catholicism is the largest Christian grouping in Australia, accounting for almost a quarter (22.6 per cent) of the Australian population. Because if people choose to put Jedi as their religion on the census, they face fines of up to $1000 for supplying "false" information on a census. [41] The statement, made in the context of an ongoing debate regarding the Incitement to Religious Hatred Bill, was confirmed by Reed's office to be a joke instead of a serious statement of faith. Ignorance, yet knowledge. The ABS announced that any answers that were Jedi-related in the religion question were to be classified as "not defined" and stressed the social impact of making misleading or false statements on the census. categorised as "not defined". The fastest-growing religion since 2011 is Sikhism at 74 percent while Hinduism came second at 60 percent increase (Australian Bureau of Statics, 2011). [46], In Scotland, 14,052 people stated that Jedi was their current religion (14,014 "Jedi", 24 "Jedi Order" and 14 "Sith") and 2,733 stated that it was their religion of upbringing (2,682 "Jedi", 36 "Jedi Order" and 15 "The Dark Side") in the 2001 census. [47] The proportion of people stating their religion as Jedi in Scotland was lower than that in England and Wales, at 0.277%. An atheist organization urged them not to do so in the upcoming census, saying it makes Australia look more religious than it is. I thought maybe it might (have) 100."[29][32][33]. The percentages of religious affiliations were: It was confirmed prior to the census that citizens were not liable for a fine in relation to question 10 (on religion). Since around 2001, some cheeky Australians have been listing Jedi or a variant as their religion in the country’s census. followers of the Jedi faith, the religion created by the Star Wars [3], The push for Australians to declare themselves as members of the Jedi order was one of the first examples of a concept going "viral" on the internet in Australia. Initially taken as a flippant response, the figure would go on to remain relatively stable, with 64,390 Australians marking Jedi as their religion in 2011, up from 58,053 in 2006. Death, yet the Force. population - say they believe in "the force", an energy field that Over 53,000 people listed themselves as Jedi in New Zealand's 2001 census. Ahead of the August 9 five-year census, the Atheist Foundation of Australia has requested citizens mark themselves down as having "no religion" if they do not consider themselves tied to a faith. films. An e-mail was sent around the world in 2001 saying that if 10,000 Jedi religion carte blanche," he told ABC Radio. [35] This was based on section 1(2) of the Census (Amendment) Act 2000,[36] which amended section 8 of the Census Act 2000 to state that "no person shall be liable to a penalty under subsection (1) for refusing or neglecting to state any particulars in respect of religion". [40], In June 2005, Jamie Reed, newly elected Labour Member of Parliament for Copeland in Cumbria, declared himself to be the first Jedi Member of Parliament during his maiden speech. In the 2011 census, 64,390 Australians marked themselves as Jedi, just behind the number of Sikhs in the country. An Official Religion - … Thousands of people in New Zealand and the UK also followed the As the 2011 census form did not list religions, these having to be filled out, the total number of Jedi is not artificially boosted by those who were not aware of the phenomenon prior to filling out the census form. New Zealand had the highest per capita population of reported Jedi in the world that year, with 1.5% marking "Jedi" as their religion. The whole thing started back in 2001 when people mistakenly thought the Australian government would have to recognize Jedi as an official religion … [23][24], In the 2011 census in Montenegro, a group of young men declared themselves as "Jedi" on the ethnicity question, as they believe that ethnicity should not be an issue today.[25]. [7][8] Close to 48,000 people reported themselves as Jedi for the 2016 census. image caption A peek inside the toilets at an Australian Star Wars convention Over in Australia, though, it's still going strong. The Jedi religion is something innate inside everyone of us, the Jedi Church believes that our sense of morality is innate. On the other hand, many people encouraged others in discussions and then media to fill the Jedi religion prior 2011 census (as a form of protest against range, overall cost and obligatory filling of the census), which is probably the cause. "Then you probably have 15,000 people who did it just to give the gives Jedi Knights like Luke Skywalker their power in the films. In 2011, this number had jumped to 64,390. Claim: Jediism is an actual religion based on the Jedi teachings described in the <em>Star Wars </em>franchise. Die Antwort „Jedi“ wurde daher der Spalte „undefined“ zugerechnet. [50], This article is about the census phenomenon. [49], The Australian Atheist Foundation objects to non-religious individuals answering with any joke answer, because this would lead to a census undercount of non-religious people, and lessen their political influence. There are mosques everywhere, but no Jedi temple!" [39] Officials from the Office for National Statistics pointed out that this merely means that it has been registered as a common answer to the "religion" question and that this does not confer on it the status of official recognition. Star Wars fans to get it recognised as an official religion. suspected to have done so in response to an e-mail encouraging all In the 2006 Australian Census, 58,053 people put “Jedi” down as their religion. [26] Statistics New Zealand treated Jedi responses as "Answer understood, but will not be counted". Die Wohlfahrtskommission der britischen Regierung entschied, dass das Jedi-Rittertum keine Religion sei. It adds that "uneducated Padawan" are moving to the dark side... To recruit new Jedi and to bring balance to the Force, we want a Jedi temple," said the petition that received more than 6,000 signatures on change.org, referring to the famed knights of the fictional Star Wars universe. list of religions by UK census authorities. In 2011, the 64,390 people who indicated their religion as Jedi were just behind Australian Sikhs, and just ahead of Seventh Day Adventists, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Why? 8.10.2016 1:28 AM. Numbers like that put “Jedi” right behind Sikh on the list of religions in the country. On 16 November 2006, two Jedi delivered a protest letter to UN officials in recognition of the International Day for Tolerance. In their latest census 65,000 Aussies still put down Jedi. In Australia more than 70,000 people (0.37%) declared themselves members of the Jedi order in the 2001 census. In a nation that is increasingly secular, religion still plays a vital role in the way we run our country. Since the arrival of traders, colonizers, and immigrants during the 1700’s, many religions have been introduced to the area. Chaos, yet harmony. The people of this country have been practicing religion in some form for over a thousand years, beginning with the Aboriginal populations. “Jedi” Religion is Causing Problems for Australia August 2, 2016 July 21, 2017 / By Team AG / News / Leave a Comment Apparently, enough people are identifying as a part of the “Jedi” religion that it could actually affect census data for the country. In a country close, close to home, it seems like an epic battle is brewing over Australians and their so-called declarations of Jediism. Australia is home to diverse collection of people andthere is wide variety of religion recorded in the Census report .Followed byChristianity is Islam ,Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism ad Judaism It has also beennoticed that other spiritual beliefs practiced … [16], In the 2011 census, 303 Croats put Jedi as their religion. "[29] A number of Dokuz Eylül University students in the western province of Izmir have demanded a Jedi temple to be built on their campus. The Australian Bureau of Statisticsissued an official press release in response to media interest on the subject. [10] Possamai's study placed Jediism in the context of a specific methodological classification ('hyper-real religions') and attempted to demonstrate that hostility existed towards new religions in Australia. [28], On 6 April 2015, thousands of Turkish students raised their voices in campaigns to build Jedi and Buddhist temples at their universities, after a series of mosques were constructed on their campuses by rectors who stressed "huge demand. The 2016 Census of Population and Housing found that three-fifths of the Australian population (61 per cent, or 14 million people) are affiliated with a religion or spiritual belief. be with you", according to Australian Star Wars Appreciation Society ‘No religion’ and Jedi Knight find their place in Australian identity. [1] Caliskan says he is surprised by the impact his petition has made: "I did not expect so many supporters. [38], Jedi was assigned its own code in the United Kingdom for census processing, the number 896. By 1991, this figure had fallen to 74 per cent, and further to the 2016 figure. More than 70,000 people in Australia have declared that they are [20][21][22] The 2016 census results list all religions receiving more than 30 responses, including 2,000 under "Jedi Knight". In the 2016 Australian census, 48,000 people declared themselves Jedi (even though in the Star Wars universe being a Jedi is more about being a guardian of the galaxy and a master of the Living Force - rather going to church on Sundays). [42] Similarly, in April 2006, Edward Leigh, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Gainsborough, asked whether he would be allowed to set up a Jedi knights faith school during a Committee debate on the Education and Inspections Bill.[43]. But the Atheist Foundation of Australia doesn’t think the joke is very funny. Kylie Sturgess, president of the Atheist Foundation of Australia, is campaigning for Australians not to make fun of the census by writing Jedi. "Then you would have 50,000 fans that said 'oh yeah we'll just put The response was "We could probably tell you the number of people who have declared themselves as such, but we don't publish it". The website which was set up to promote the concept was visited over 100,000 times in a five-week period and was first archived by the Wayback Machine on 21 October 2001. During a subsequent committee debate on the bill, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield, Dominic Grieve, proposed as "a bit of a joke" to exclude Jedi Knights from the protection of the proposed act, along with Satanists and proponents of animal sacrifice, illustrating the difficulty of defining religious belief in legislation. [9], The Jedi Census phenomenon attracted the attention of sociologist of religion Adam Possamai who discusses it in his book Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament. The change in the law was implemented by The Census (Amendment) Order 2000[37] and The Census (Amendment) Regulations 2000. World Religion Day aims to foster interfaith understanding and harmony, and is an opportunity to recognise the diversity of religion present in modern day Australia. Emotion, yet peace. "' Jedi' and other joke religions are not placed in the 'No Religion' category but in 'Not Defined'. [15] In the 2011 National Household Survey the number fell to 9,000. An ABS spokesperson said that "further analysis of census responses has been underta… The 2011 census was not completed due to an earthquake in Christchurch but, in the 2018 census, the figure was more or less in line with 2006, at 20,409 (0.43% total responses). [13] The Australian Bureau of Statistics did not publish the number of people claiming Jedi as their religion in its reports on the 2016 census. It is believed that there is no numerical value that determines a religion per definition of the ABS, but there would need to be a belief system or philosophy as well as some form of institutional or organisational structure in place. Atheists are urging Australians not to describe themselves as "Jedi" in the upcoming census, warning that doing so in homage to "Star Wars" makes the country appear more religious than it really is. During Australia’s last census in 2011, the number of Australians who claimed allegiance to The Force rose to about 64,000 ― a little bit less than the number of Sikhs in the country and more than the number of Seventh Day Adventists. More than 70,000 people in Australia have declared that they are followers of the Jedi faith, the religion created by the Star Wars films. ‘No religion’ and Jedi Knight find their place in Australian identity: 08/22/2017 Interfaith Dialogue after the Murder of Father Jacques Hamel: 07/27/2017 ABC’s unholy row: church leaders’ fury over religion … religion. This is despite previous admissions by the ABS that they were "fairly relaxed" about the issue in 2001 and that nobody had been prosecuted in at least 15 years. Who's the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who marks himself as a Jedi on the census? A recent census found that one in 270 respondents - or 0.37% of the population - say they believe in "the force", an energy field that gives Jedi Knights like Luke Skywalker their power in the films. [12], In the lead-up to the 2016 census, there was a push from atheists warning not to use Jedi, imploring that it could be counted as being religious. For Jediism the religion, see, "Census of Population and Housing — The 2001 Census, Religion and the Jedi", "Portrait of a nation, squid jiggers and all", "Lachlan Murdoch with Rupert on Scientology being 'weird cult, "Lateline - 29/06/2012: Scientology membership in drastic decline", "Census reveals Australia's religious diversity on World Religion Day", Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith, "Come to your census - no kidding, they're serious", "Atheists urge Australians not to joke around by putting Jedi as their religion on the census", "2071.0 Census of Population and Housing: Reflecting Australia - Stories from the Census, 2016 - Religion", "The Shotgun: Does Canada lead the world in Jedi knights? [4], The 2006 census recorded 58,053 Jedi. The petition was started by Akin Cagatay Caliskan, an 18-year-old computer science student from Ankara: "We want freedom of worship. Most of the 70,509 people who wrote Jedi on their census forms were suspected to have done so in response to an e-mail encouraging all Star Wars fans to get it recognised as an official religion. [14], In the 2001 census, 21,000 Canadians put down their religion as Jedi Knight. The Jedi Religion's biggest hurdle in being accepted as a relevant religion is the fact that it originated in an acknowledged work of fiction. [5][6] In the 2011 census, the numbers listing their faith as Jedi had picked up from the 2006 census to 65,000. An ABS spokesperson said that "further analysis of census responses has been undertaken since the release of census data on 17 June to separately identify the number of Jedi-related responses". president Chris Brennan. The Australian 'Jedi Religion' Is Messing up the Census. Gary D Bouma, Monash University. [48], In April 2009, it became known that eight police officers serving with Scotland's largest police force, Strathclyde, listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms. [31] The page on Change.org also features a still of Jedi Grand Master Yoda from Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones teaching young Jedi how to use a light saber. [30] "There are less and less Jedi left on the Earth... the nearest temple [is] billions of light years away," the petition says. According to census 2016, the population of Sikh in Australia grew from 72,000 in 2011 to 130,000 in 2016. 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Formally organised forms of religion are only one part of the picture of Australian society. [18] The highest number of Jedi were recorded to live in Prague. [45] The magazine Metal Hammer also encouraged readers to mark "Heavy Metal" as their religion, leading to over 6,000 responses. August 27, 2017 by admin. Catrina Dennis. A recent census found that one in 270 respondents - or 0.37% of the Bei einer 2011 durchgeführten Volkszählung in Tschechien gaben 15.070 Bürger den Jediismus als Religion an. More than 70,000 people in Australia have declared that they are followers of the Jedi faith, the religion created by the Star Wars films. Section 116 of the Constitution of Australia of 1901 prohibits the Commonwealth government from establishing a church or interfering with the freedom of religion. The Jedi census phenomenon is a grassroots movement that was initiated in 2001 for residents of a number of English-speaking countries, urging them to record their religion as "Jedi" or "Jedi Knight" (after the quasi-religious order of Jedi Knights in the fictional Star Wars universe) on the national census. "When you look at it you probably have got about 5,000 people in Formally organised forms of religion are only one part of the picture of Australian society. Most of the 70,509 people who wrote Jedi on their census forms were In Australia more than 70,000 people (0.37%) declared themselves members of the Jedi order in the 2001 census. This fact was referenced by the prime minister's office as a rationale for making the 40-page long census form voluntary. So quiet your mind and listen to the force within you!
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