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Oct 24, 2016 · Fifty years ago, on April 8, 1966, a Time magazine cover asked just that question. The same could be asked in Britain today. The Church of England recently announced it was considering...
Dec 1, 2022 · Published 1 December 2022 • 8 min read. Earlier this week the Office for National Statistics released the Census 2021 data on ethnicity, religion, national identity and language. One of the headline-grabbing findings is that England and Wales are no longer majority Christian countries, with a fall of 13 percentage points – from 59% in 2011 ...
- Where Have All The Christians Gone?
- Politicians Twisting Figures
- How Census Data Fuels Conspiracies
What’s behind the reduction in self-identifying Christians in England and Wales? People who identified with no religion were the second biggest category, rising from 25.2 per cent to 37.2 per cent of the population. In third place was Islam, which has grown from 4.9 per cent of the population to 6.5 per cent in the last decade. “Immigration has a p...
If there is a shift in the political authority and influence of the Church in England, what will that mean for politics? According to Fox and co-author Dr Ekaterina Kolpinskaya’s research, religion has an under-appreciated effect of voting behaviour.. “Anglicans were the most likely of the largest Christian communities to support Brexit in 2016, wi...
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue(ISD) is a think-tank focusing on rising polarisation, extremism and disinformation worldwide. “Since the day of the release of the religion stats from the census, we've seen a noted uptick in rhetoric around great replacement, white genocide, and the far right narrative that white people are being replaced in We...
People in the UK (47%) are more likely to believe in life after death than their counterparts in some other European countries, such as France (41%) or Spain (38%) –but the UK is still far behind the US (70%) and ranks lower than the likes of Canada (57%) and Australia (55%) for this belief.
Dec 22, 2022 · How England and Wales lost their religion. Christianity’s grip has been slipping for decades — evidenced by crumbling chapels and dwindling attendance. Can new communities help the church regain...
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Dec 30, 2022 · The Census 2021 results reveal an increase in those with no religion in England and Wales. What does this mean for the nations’ future religious landscape? Every 10 years, a census is taken in England…
Feb 5, 2013 · Indeed, the census itself didn't bode well for religion - 25% of residents in England and Wales say they have no religion, compared to 15% in the 2001 census. Meanwhile the proportion self-defining as Christian fell from 72% to 59%.
