Data source: Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson, eds., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).
| Glossary item | Definition |
|---|---|
| nomenklatura (Russian) | Privileged bureaucratic elites in Communist or formerly-Communist countries. |
| nominal Christians | See unaffiliated Christians. |
| nominal fringe | In countries with a Christian majority, the fringe of nominal Christians around the churches who are not church members. |
| nomogram | A figure or diagram from which calculations can be made at sight. |
| non-adherents | Persons who are not adherents of any religion; non-religious, agnostics or atheists. |
| non-affiliated | Nominal Christians (qv). |
| non-attenders | Non-practicing Christians (qv). |
| non-attending Christians | Non-practicing Christians (qv). |
| non-baptized believers in Christ (NBBCs) | Members of non-Christian religions who become converted to faith in Christ as Lord but choose not to join Christian denominations but to remain in their religions as witnesses there to Christ. |
| non-belief | Unbelief (qv). |
| non-believers | Persons who are not adherents of or believers in any religion; non-religious, agnostics or atheists. |
| non-Catholics | See Catholics (non-Roman). |
| Non-Chalcedonian | Oriental Orthodox (qv). |
| non-Christian attenders | See attending non-Christians. |
| non-Christian religionists | Adherents of all religions in the world except Christianity. |
| non-Christians | All persons who are not Christian adherents of any kind, including non-believers (agnostics, or atheists). |
| Non-Christians | Generic term for describing all persons in the world who are not Christians. |
| non-conciliar | Unconnected with the Ecumenical Movement or with Evangelical, Indigenous or any other form of councils or conciliarism. |
| Non-conciliar Evangelicals | Evangelicals rejecting contact or co-operation with the Ecumenical Movement. |
| non-confessional | Used of a denomination or Christian activity unaligned with any confessions. |
| non-confessional Christianity | Of the world’s significant Christian denominations, those which have no confessional allegiance (membership in world confessional councils), or have no confessional allegiance but themselves form quasiconfessions (qv) or non-confessional international denominational bodies. non-confessional international denominational body. (quasi-confessions). Denominations which do not belong to any of the recognized world confessional bodies or families, but which function, or regard themselves, or are often regarded, as themselves confessional bodies or world families of churches, each with organized branches and churches in 3 or more nations, although in fact each is a single worldwide or international denomination. Global membership: see quasi-confessions. |
| Nonconformists | Dissenters, persons who do not conform to the doctrine or discipline of an established church, especially, members of religious bodies separated from the Church of England. |
| nondenominational | Of a parachurch agency, unrelated to any denomination or denominations, not accountable to any, outside their control. |
| non-denominational | (no-church groups). Churches or movements which, in reaction to Western missionary work, reject all ecclesiastical labels even including ‘Christian’, and all ecclesiastical practices including baptism. |
| non-diocesan | A term describing clergy and other staff in a diocese who are not on the diocesan payroll but are employed by a province, other Christian body, or a secular agency. |
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