Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Religious publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,464 religious publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 30,188 professional contacts across them, including 5,043 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers religious publishers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026. Country and city lists for religious publishers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest religious publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,477 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,068 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WEKA FACHMEDIEN GmbH is a Publishing company located in Richard-Reitzner-Allee 2, Haar, Bavaria, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 749 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OCP (Oregon Catholic Press) is a not-for-profit publisher of liturgical music and worship resources, offering missals, hymnals, liturgical planning tools, parish events, CDs and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 522 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1866, Deseret Book Company has been the market leader in the publishing, distribution, and retailing of faith-based books, music, DVDs, religious art and home decor, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 469 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Casa Publicadora Brasileira é uma das 61 editoras pertencentes à Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 423 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PAULUS Editora.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 403 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les Éditions Albin Michel sont une maison d’édition française fondée en 1900.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tyndale House is one of the largest independently-owned Christian publishers in the world, on mission to open God's Word to as many people as possible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 314 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BJU Press is located in beautiful Greenville, South Carolina, and is a ministry of BJU Education Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Sunday Visitor, now known as OSV, is the largest Catholic publishing company in the U.S, serving parishes and dioceses nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 302 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One of the biggest publishing company in Indonesia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 288 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Penguin Random House Canada, the country’s largest book publisher, aims to nourish a universal passion for reading by connecting authors and their writing with readers everywhere.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 235 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Baker Publishing Group publishes high-quality writings that represent historic Christianity and serve the diverse interests and concerns of evangelical readers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 212 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pudhari Publications Pvt Ltd is a Publishing company located in PUDHARI, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Zondervan, part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, is a world leading Bible publisher and provider of Christian communications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CPH is hiring!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hodder & Stoughton is a major publisher within Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “More than 50 years of printing quality and innovation!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thomas Nelson, Inc, part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, is a world leading provider of Christian content and has been providing readers with quality inspirational product…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Christian Faith Publishing is a full-service book publisher based and operated in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Uitgeverij Lannoo nv heeft haar succes te danken aan jarenlange ervaring, creativiteit en een hecht team van gedreven medewerkers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Twice winner of the KPMG publisher of the year award, and with a string of top sellers in each season, Little, Brown Book Group has a proven history of success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 80 years the purpose of CUM Books has been to put Christian content and Bibles into the hands of the people of South-Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nascida em 1900, a Editora Santuário nasceu com um objetivo pastoral claro: facilitar, por meio da imprensa, a evangelização, principalmente dos mais pobres.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Crossway is a not-for-profit publisher of Christian books, the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible, and other gospel literature.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: religious publishers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names religious publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of religious publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name religious publishers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Religious publishers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among religious publishers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for religious publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “religious publishers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names religious publishers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among religious publishers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,043 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Religious publishers by location
8 lists · largest firstEvery Religious publishers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Religious publishers based in the United States629
- Religious publishers based in the United Kingdom183
- Religious publishers based in Brazil179
- Religious publishers based in Germany134
- Religious publishers based in France123
- Religious publishers based in India79
- Religious publishers based in the Netherlands67
- Religious publishers based in Canada46
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names religious publishers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many religious publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,464 religious publishers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Harpercollins Publishers, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most religious publishers?
The United States leads with 629 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (183) and Brazil (179). Every religious publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most religious publishers?
Sao Paulo leads with 47 headquartered companies, followed by London (44) and Paris (42).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,043 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,464 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.