RE: Islam is currently fastest growing religion. What about irreligion?
July 30, 2014 at 4:21 am
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2014 at 4:22 am by Fidel_Castronaut.)
2011 Census data in the UK: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/201...igion.html
Compare with the 2001 census to see the difference (atheism/non religion from 13% to around 25~% in less than 10 years).
British Social Attitudes Surveys in the UK have shown repeatedly that non-religion/atheism (and variants therein) have grown in every year the study has been conducted in recent years:
http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/tag/british-s...es-survey/
Academic Steve Bruce has done multiple studies over the past two decades into the decline of the Christian churches in England and Wales:
http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=e...C5&as_sdtp=
There are similar results for other countries in Europe however I am only strongly familiar with the story in the UK/England and Wales as I study it for me PhD research.
(Also welcome!
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Compare with the 2001 census to see the difference (atheism/non religion from 13% to around 25~% in less than 10 years).
British Social Attitudes Surveys in the UK have shown repeatedly that non-religion/atheism (and variants therein) have grown in every year the study has been conducted in recent years:
http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/tag/british-s...es-survey/
Academic Steve Bruce has done multiple studies over the past two decades into the decline of the Christian churches in England and Wales:
http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=e...C5&as_sdtp=
There are similar results for other countries in Europe however I am only strongly familiar with the story in the UK/England and Wales as I study it for me PhD research.
(Also welcome!
)
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