"Jedi Knight" has made it onto the list of official religions on the 2001 United Kingdom census, the BBC reported. The listing is a result of an Internet campaign to get Star Wars fans to list the fictitious order on their census forms, the news service reported.
Jedi Knight joins the Church of England, Roman Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu--as well as druidism, satanism and Wicca--on the list of official British religions. Enough census respondents wrote in the entry for Jedi Knight to win its own code for purposes of census processing, the BBC reported.
Officials from the Office of National Statistics were quick to point out to the BBC that giving "Jedi Knight" its own code does not confer on it the status of official recognition. "We are not defining what a religion or a faith might be," a spokeswoman told the BBC. "We are recognizing what some may have entered on their census form and ensuring that our coding framework will cater for it."