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Peter Hennessy argued that long-held attitudes did not stop change; by midcentury: "Britain was still a Christian country only in a vague attitudinal sense, belief generally being more a residual husk than the kernel of conviction." [85] Kenneth O. Morgan agreed, noting that: "the Protestant churches. Anglican, and more especially non ...
Religion in the United Kingdom is mainly expressed in Christianity, which dominated the land since the 7th century.Results of the 2021 Census for England and Wales showed that Christianity is the largest religion (though makes up less than half of the population), followed by the non-religious, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
According to the BBC, church attendance in the UK has dwindled in the past 50 years, not just in the Church of England or other Protestant churches, but in all Christian establishments. The BBC reported in 2011 that 26% of people over the age of 65 attend church, as opposed to 11% of those between the ages of 16 and 44.
Religion in England from Prehistoric Times to the Early 1980s: With a special emphasis, when relevant, on Catholicism, and the country’s North East (2021) 135pp amazon Marshall, Peter. "(Re)defining the English Reformation," Journal of British Studies, July 2009, Vol. 48#3 pp. 564–586
In 2014, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams stated that the UK had become a "post-Christian country". That same year, only 4.3% of the population participated in a Church of England (C of E) Christmas service. [65] Nevertheless, around 60% of all respondents still identified as Christians in the 2011 Census. [66] [67]
The percentage of people saying they had no religion jumped from 25.2% in 2011 to over a third in 2021 (37.2%).
c. 700 – Circassia (most of the country would remain pagan) 710 – Picts go from Celtic to Chalcedonian; c. 710 – Makuria goes from Chalcedonian to Coptic; 724 – Thuringia; 734 – Frisians; 785 – Saxons; c. 805 Duchy of Lower Pannonia [11] 840s – Navarre [12]: 146 863 – Moravia; 864 – Christianization of Bulgaria
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