How important is religion in the UK?

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@Fidel You have a Ph.D? :o

Interesting topic, I'll have to look into more.

Not yet no. Still a part-time researcher (on this topic) as well as a part-time sessional lecturer too (on this topic broadly).

EDIT:

Further sources to add to the OP:

I would recommend all works by Steve Bruce, who is one of the foremost academics analysing the decline of traditional Religious beliefs in the UK and, recently, the increase in the so-called 'spiritualisation' of the public sphere and psyche and the growth in secularisation:

http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/archives...EBruce.pdf

(Google Scholar search):

http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=e...C5&as_sdtp=

Apologies, cannot post an indepth bibliography as I'm at work, but the scholar search above will bring to the fore some great reads, including 'God is Dead: Secularisation in the West' and (my personal interest) the utilisation of Rational Choice Theory in the analysis of the decline of religious beliefs through the growth of secularism (or rather its acceptance).