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  • 18 Dec 2012
    The demography of belief worldwide

    As we report elsewhere on Ekklesia (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/17645), a new, comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life finds that more than eight-in-ten people worldwide identify with a religious group -- while the number of those unaffiliated with religion is on the rise, and now constitutes the third-largest global belief group.

  • 18 Dec 2012
    Eight-in-ten of world population identify with a religious group

    A new, comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories finds that more than 8 in 10 worldwide identify with a religious group.

  • 12 Dec 2012
    Census results underestimate those of no religion

    The British Humanist Association (BHA) has released an infographic to show the rise in the number of people who ticked ‘No Religion’ in the 2011 Census, and the decline in the number of people who tic

  • 12 Dec 2012
    Census 2011: A changing religious situation
  • 11 Dec 2012
    Census confirms England and Wales as mixed-belief societies

    England and Wales are becoming ever more mixed in belief, identity and culture, the 2011 census data released today (11 December 2012) reveals.

  • 26 Oct 2012
    Facebook, privacy, pluralism and belief

    The experience of being a new Facebook user prompts wider and deeper thoughts on 'friending', community and privacy for theologian Graeme Smith. Despite the promises of heavenly or earthly paradises made by ardent followers of this or that religious or political cause, all will become hellish if pluralism and therefore privacy is not protected and enhanced, he suggests.

  • 17 Oct 2012
    New US value and beliefs survey to be released this month

    Two weeks before the US presidential election, the Public Religion Research Institute will release its annual American Values Survey.

  • 16 Aug 2012
    Religion persistent but non-belief grows, shows global poll

    Africa has topped the list of most devout regions of the world, with 89% calling themselves religious, according to the Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism.

  • 6 Aug 2012
    Beyond institutional faith... disorganised religion?

    We live in an era where people are inquisitive about spirituality, but hugely distrustful or even hostile towards ‘organised religion’, especially in its Christian forms.

  • 31 Dec 2011
    David Cameron and Richard Dawkins: misunderstanding Christianity

    Britain is “a Christian country”, the language, culture and politics of which is “steeped in the Bible”, declared UK Prime Minister David Cameron recently. The Bible provides an "appalling moral compass", biologist and vigorous atheist Richard Dawkins responded. Both, despite elements of truth, revealed a deep misunderstanding of Christianity, says Savi Hensman.