{"id":49,"date":"2021-02-14T22:29:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T22:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus2021.bobprophette.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2021-02-14T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T22:30:00","slug":"religion-identity-behaviour-and-belief-over-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus.bobprophette.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Religion: Identity, behaviour and belief over two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The past two decades have seen international conflict involving religion and domestic religious organisations putting themselves at odds with mainstream values. Against this backdrop, we compare religious  identification, behaviour and belief among the British public. We find a dramatic decline in identification with Christian denominations, particularly the Church of England; a substantial increase in atheism and in self-description as \u201cvery\u201d or \u201cextremely\u201d non-religious; and very low confidence in religious organisations, but tolerance of religious difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/media\/39293\/1_bsa36_religion.pdf\">https:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/media\/39293\/1_bsa36_religion.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past two decades have seen international conflict involving religion and domestic religious organisations putting themselves at odds with mainstream values. Against this backdrop, we compare religious identification, behaviour and belief among the British public. We find a dramatic decline in identification with Christian denominations, particularly the Church of England; a substantial increase in atheism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus.bobprophette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus.bobprophette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus.bobprophette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus.bobprophette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus.bobprophette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus.bobprophette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus.bobprophette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus.bobprophette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus.bobprophette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaphysicalcensus.bobprophette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}