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 == Table == 

 Editor  has voiced concerns that this article's table of religious demographics is ""totally unreliable"" because ""there's not even a clear membership of religions such as Taoism or Spiritualism, and Confucianism has no membership since it's not a religion."" These are serious allegations that I want to address. The table is reproduced from a report published by the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS), which used demographic statistics from the World Christian Database (WCD) and the World Religion Database (WRD). Both the WCD and the WRD are published by Brill. There should be no concerns that the GCTS is ""cooking the books,"" because essentially the same information appears in other publications. I don't know what methodology the WRD uses to estimate the number of Taoists and Spiritualists, but as a scholarly, published database, the WRD fulfills Wikipedia's criteria for a reliable source. Reviews of the WCD and the WRD note some weaknesses, but nothing of the sort that would preclude their use as reliable sources. As for the status of Confucianism as a religion, it has traditionally been regarded as a religion by Western scholars, and continues to be treated as one in studies of religious demographics. I don't think this contentious issue is grounds for removing the table.   "