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Catholic Christianity is by far the largest religion in Spain. According to a study by the Spanish Centre for Sociological Research in 2015 about 68% of Spaniards self-identify as Catholic Christians, 3.8% as followers of other faiths (including Islam, Protestant Christianity and Buddhism etc.), and about 25% identify as atheists or non-believers.〔 Most Spaniards do not participate regularly in religious worship. This same study shows that of the Spaniards who identify themselves as religious, 61% barely ever goes to mass, 14% go to mass few times a year, 10% few times per month and 14% every Sunday or multiple times per week. Although a majority of Spaniards are Catholics, most, especially those of the young generation, ignore the Church's conservative moral doctrines on issues such as pre-marital sex, sexual orientation or contraception.〔〔 The total number of parish priests has shrunk from 24,300 in 1975 to 19,307 in 2005. The number of nuns also dropped by 6.9% to 54,160 between 2000 and 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Estadísticas de la Iglesia en España, 2005 )〕 ==Attitudes== While Roman Catholicism is still the largest religion in Spain, most Spaniards—and especially the younger—choose to ignore the Catholic teachings in morals, politics or sexuality, and do not attend Mass regularly. Agnosticism and atheism enjoy social prestige, according to the general Western European secularization.〔 Culture wars are far more related to politics than religion, and the huge lack of popularity of typically religion-related issues like creationism prevent them from being used in such conflicts. Revivalist efforts by the Catholic Church and other creeds have not had any significant success out of their previous sphere of influence.〔〔 According to the Eurobarometer 69 (2008), only 3% of Spaniards consider religion as one of their three most important values, even lower than the 7% European average.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eurobarometer 69 - Values of Europeans - page 16 )〕 And according to the 2005 Eurobarometer Poll:〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eurobarometer on Social Values, Science and technology 2005 - page 9 )〕 * 59% of Spaniards responded that "they believe there is a God." * 21% answered that "they believe there is some sort of spirit or life force". * 19% answered that "they do not believe there is any sort of spirit, God, or life force." Evidence of the secular nature of contemporary Spain can be seen in the widespread support for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Spain — over 70% of Spaniards support gay marriage according to a 2004 study by the Centre for Sociological Research.〔(Centre for Sociological Research )〕 Indeed, in June 2005 a bill was passed by 187 votes to 147 to allow gay marriage, making Spain the third country in the European Union to allow same-sex couples to marry. This vote was split along conservative-liberal lines, with Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and other left-leaning parties supporting the measure and People's Party (PP) against it. Proposed changes to the divorce laws to make the process quicker and to eliminate the need for a guilty party are also popular. The recent waves of immigration, especially during and after the 1990s, have led to an increasing number of Muslims, who have about 1 million members. Nowadays, Islam is the second largest religion in Spain, after Roman Catholicism, accounting for approximately 2 percent of the total population. A study made by ''Unión de comunidades islámicas de España'' demonstrated that there were about 1,700,000 inhabitants of Muslim background living in Spain in 2012, accounting for 3-4% of the total population of Spain. The vast majority was composed of immigrants and descendants originating from Morocco and other African countries. More than 514,000 (30%) of them had Spanish nationality. Jews account for less than 1 percent of the population, mostly in Barcelona, Madrid and Murcia. Protestantism has also been boosted by immigration, but remains a small testimonial force among native Spaniards. Spain has been seen as a ''graveyard for foreign missionaries'' among Evangelical Protestants.〔 Protestant churches have about 1,200,000 members.〔(Federación de Entidades Religiosas Evangélicas de España - FEREDE )〕 Along with these waves of immigration, an important number of Latin American people, who are usually strong Catholic practitioners, have helped the Catholic Church to recover part of the attendance that regular Masses (Sunday Mass) used to have in the sixties and seventies and that was lost in the eighties among native Spaniards. During the last decade, the involvement of the Catholic Church in politic affairs, through special groups such as Opus Dei, the Neocatechumenal Way or the Legion of Christ, especially personated through important politicians in the right-wing People's Party, has increased again. Old and new media, which are property of the Church, such as the COPE radio network, have also contributed to this new involvement in politics. The Church is no longer seen as a neutral and independent institution in political affairs and it is generally aligned with the opinion and politics of the People's Party. This implication has had, as a consequence, a renewed criticism from important sectors of the population (especially the majority of left-wing voters) against the Church and the way in which it is economically sustained by the State. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Religion in Spain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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