LONDON, Dec. 20 (UPI) --The Charity Commission for England and Wales ruled that the "Temple of the Jedi Order" are not an official religion. The commission determined the religious group based on ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has not tracked religious affiliation since 1957, but a 2011 census in the UK claimed that 176,632 people identified as Jedi. (That number was down from 330,000 in 2001.) ...

The numbers identifying as Jedi. In 2001 a national campaign led to more than 390,000 people describing themselves as Jedi Knights. However, since then numbers have dropped significantly.

Followers of Jediism are aiming to build a belief system that goes beyond the Star Wars films. But does it amount to a new religion? It began as a joke at the expense of statisticians. In the UK's ...

The Jedi religion is over, he says, a victim of its own hypocrisy and hubris. ... The name of the Jedi Order itself could be borrowed from Asian culture, ...

Those looking to become real life Jedi may have to wait longer, as The Charity Commission in the U.K. has revoked The Temple of the Jedi Order’s charitable status. Perhaps their Jedi mind tricks ...

Since the Jedi were introduced in A New Hope, Star Wars has continually expanded their history, showing many versions of the Order over 25,000+ years.