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, ...

According to census data, the Jedi are the seventh largest religious group in Britain, and have in the past risen as high as fourth place. Yet the Charity Commission for England and Wales recently ...

Atheists in the U.K. had started listing their religion as “Jedi” on the 2001 census, an irreverent response to a question on religious affiliation appearing in the census for the first time.

Home; Religion; speed read Jedi bid to become recognised religion rejected. Charity Commission rules Star Wars's belief system is not a true faith, disappointing UK's 177,000 'worshippers' ...

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 ...

The US census doesn’t count Jedi as a religion, but other countries’ data give us a sense of the size: In England it’s the seventh-largest religion, with 175,000 members; 15,000 Jedi can be ...

The concept of the Jedi Order is seamlessly encapsulated by the definition expressed by sociologist Emile Durkheim over a century ago. Religion, as Durkheim explains, is a system of beliefs and ...