The Worldmapper project recently released a new series of religion maps based on data from the World Christian Database. The map below is one of 31 in the series and shows the distribution of "Pagans." According to the site, Pagan is "A collective term for primal or primitive religionists, animists, spirit-worshippers, shamanists, ancestor-venerators, polytheists, pantheists, traditionalists (in Africa), local or tribal folk-religionists; including adherents of neo-paganism or non-Christian local or tribal syncretistic or nativistic movements, cargo cults, witchcraft eradication cults, possession healing movements, tribal messianic movements; still occasionally termed pagans, heathen, fetishists; usually confined each to a single tribe or people, hence tribal or local as opposed to 'universal' (open to any or all peoples)." The map series also includes maps of the distribution of Catholics, Jews, Shias, Sunnis, Buddhists, Hindus, and many others. The site uses area cartograms to represent the predominance of the variable being mapped. Copyright SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan), used with permission. Click for larger view.