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'''Other''': The Other category includes muslim Rusanis who migrated to Canpei during the [[Rusani Civil War|Rusani civil war]] and their descendants.  
'''Other''': The Other category includes muslim Rusanis who migrated to Canpei during the [[Rusani Civil War|Rusani civil war]] and their descendants.  
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[[Tianism]] is, by a small margin, the largest religious denomination in Canpei, amounting to 33.4% of the population in 2030. Being that the birthing place of [[Tianism]] was the ancient Liang kingdom, many in Canpei hold it as a sort of national faith.  
[[Tianism]] is, by a small margin, the largest religious denomination in Canpei, amounting to 33.4% of the population in 2030. Being that the birthing place of [[Tianism]] was the ancient Liang kingdom, many in Canpei hold it as a sort of national faith. [[Tianism]] is strongest among the Tiao ethnic group, who are also the largest ethnic group. Some smaller communities of Tianist [[Daxian people|Daxian]]'s exist, mainstream [[Daxia]]n assumptions are that [[Tianism]] is an exclusionist 'northerner' set of beliefs.


Christianity is the second largest religious group, comprising 28.4% of the population in 2030. Christianity is concentrated in people of [[Daxian people|Daxian]] and [[Degei Confederation|Xingkai]] origin, geographically the distribution of Christians is heaviest in urban areas and in the sparse northwest. The vast majority of Canpei's Christians belong to the [[Democratic Christian Church of Daxia and the East|Christian Church of the East]] based in [[Daxia]], the highest official of the Church in Canpei is the Archbishop of Bianyuan. Only around 7% of the Christian community belong to the [[Audonian Christianity|Audonian Church of the East]].  
Christianity is the second largest religious group, comprising 28.4% of the population in 2030. Christianity is concentrated in people of [[Daxian people|Daxian]] and [[Degei Confederation|Xingkai]] origin, geographically the distribution of Christians is heaviest in urban areas and in the sparse northwest. The vast majority of Canpei's Christians belong to the [[Democratic Christian Church of Daxia and the East|Christian Church of the East]] based in [[Daxia]], the highest official of the Church in Canpei is the Archbishop of Bianyuan. Only around 7% of the Christian community belong to the [[Audonian Christianity|Audonian Church of the East]].  


Adherents of Islam constitute the third largest religious group, comprised of 13.6% of the population in 2030. Canpei's sizable  Muslim community are either the descendants of settlers brought by the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate|Oduniyyad]] during their brief rule of the western bank of the Hongse river, or they are more recent economic migrants from [[Rusana]]. The majority of Canpei's Muslims are overwhelmingly Sunni wit small pockets of Shi'a and [[Qustanti_Islam|Qustantis]]. Muslims are concentrate on the west bank and the capital of [[Bianyuan]].
Adherents of Islam constitute the third largest religious group, comprised of 13.6% of the population in 2030. Canpei's sizable  Muslim community are either the descendants of settlers brought by the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate|Oduniyyad]] during their brief rule of the western bank of the Hongse river, or they are more recent economic migrants from [[Rusana]]; converts are as of this time a small minority. The majority of Canpei's Muslims are overwhelmingly Sunni wit small pockets of Shi'a and [[Qustanti_Islam|Qustantis]]. Muslims are concentrate on the west bank and the capital of [[Bianyuan]].


The number of irreligious people or atheists has been growing in recent decades, as of 2030 24.6% of respondents self-identified as having no religion at all.
The number of irreligious people or atheists has been growing in recent decades, as of 2030 24.6% of respondents self-identified as having no religion at all. Disillusion with rigid hierarchies, retrograde views, religious extremists and various prohibitions are causes that continue to affect the decline of religious affiliation in Canpei.