Editing South America (section)

===Religion===
[[File:Santuario de Las Lajas, Ipiales, Colombia, 2015-07-21, DD 21-23 HDR-Edit.JPG|thumb|[[Las Lajas Sanctuary]], [[Ipiales]], [[Colombia]]]]
{{main|Religion in South America|Religion in Latin America}}
{{see also|History of the Jews in Latin America and the Caribbean|Buddhism in Brazil|Islam in Argentina}}

An estimated 90% of South Americans are Christians<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pewforum.org/global-religious-landscape-christians.aspx|title=Christians|date=18 December 2012|website=Pewforum.org|access-date=11 November 2017|archive-date=5 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705090247/http://www.pewforum.org/global-religious-landscape-christians.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> (82% [[Roman Catholic]], 8% other Christian denominations mainly traditional [[Protestants]] and [[Evangelicals]] but also [[Orthodoxy|Orthodox]]), accounting for 19% of Christians worldwide.

African descendent and Indigenous religions are common throughout South America; some examples are [[Santo Daime]], [[Candomblé]], and [[Umbanda]]. [[Crypto-Jews]] or [[Marrano]]s, [[conversos]], and [[Anusim]] were an important part of colonial life in Latin America. Buenos Aires and São Paulo figure among the largest [[Jewish population by urban areas|Jewish populations by urban area]].

[[East Asian religions]] such as [[Japanese Buddhism]], [[Shintoism]], and [[Shinto|Shinto-derived]] [[Japanese New Religions]] are common in Brazil and Peru. [[Korean Confucianism]] is especially found in Brazil, while [[Chinese Buddhism]] and [[Confucianism|Chinese Confucianism]] have spread throughout the continent. [[Kardecist Spiritism]] can be found in several countries.

[[Hinduism|Hindus]] form 25% of the Guyanese population and 22% of Suriname's.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Guyana – The World Factbook|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/guyana/#people-and-society|access-date=4 January 2021|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|archive-date=7 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107032754/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/guyana/#people-and-society|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Suriname – The World Factbook|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/suriname/|access-date=4 January 2021|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|archive-date=7 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107182748/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/suriname/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Muslims account for 7% of the Guyanese population and 14% of the Surinamese population.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

'''Part of Religions in South America (2013):'''<ref name="latbar">{{cite web|title=Las religiones en tiempos del Papa Francisco|url=http://www.latinobarometro.org/latNewsShow.jsp|publisher=Latinobarómetro|access-date=4 April 2015|archive-date=10 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510104033/http://www.latinobarometro.org/latNewsShow.jsp|page=7|language=es|date=April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Religion in South America
! Countries
! Christians
! ''Roman Catholics''
! ''Other Christians''
! No religion (atheists and agnostics)
|-
|Argentina||88%|||77%|||11%|||11%
|-
|Bolivia||96%|||74%|||22%|||4%
|-
|Brazil||88%|||64%|||22%|||8%
|-
|Chile||70%|||57%|||13%|||25%
|-
|Colombia||92%|||80%|||12%|||7%
|-
|Ecuador||93%|||80%|||13%|||7%
|-
|Guyana||63%|||7%|||56%|||3%
|-
|Paraguay||96%|||87%|||9%|||2%
|-
|Peru||94%|||81%|||13%|||3%
|-
|Suriname||51%|||29%|||22%|||5%
|-
|Uruguay||58%|||47%|||11%|||41%
|-
|Venezuela||88%|||71%|||17%|||8%
|}