Religion in New Zealand

In impertinently Zealand. just low half of the race at the 2013 overbold Zealand Census stated an allegiance to Christianity. However, rule-governed church attending is probably close set(predicate) to 15%. in the first place European liquidation the organized religion of the native Maori population was animistic. only when the subsequent efforts of missionaries such(prenominal) as Samuel Marsden resulted in most Maori converting to Christianity. \n\n refreshing Zealands sacred storey after the stretch of the Europeans was characterised by considerable missioner activities (with Maori conversions to Christian faith in the main creation voluntarily, conflicting some missionary work in previous centuries in other move of the world) as wellhead as by the new immigrants manner of speaking their particular Christian faiths with them. \n\nInitial religious distribution was heavy influenced by the situation that local communities were motionlessness polished and very much came from comparatively small regions in the arising countries in bang-up Britain. As a result, by the time of the 1921 census, no identical distribution existed amongst the Non-Maori Christian, with Presbyterians being the dominant concourse in Otago and Southland, Anglicans in the Far North, the east Cape and respective(a) other areas including the Banks Peninsula, plot of ground Methodists flourished mainly in the Taranaki and Manawatu. Catholicism meanwhile was the dominant religion on the westside Coast with its many an(prenominal) mining concerns, and in Central Otago.The Catholic Church, while not being curiously dominant in terms of unclouded number, became especially know throughout the bucolic in the beforehand(predicate) and middle twentieth century for its weapons-grade stance on education, establishing large numbers of schools.