U.K moving towards true Secularism London: Britain is undergoing a post-religion era with most of its citizens not following any religion, according to a new survey, reports PTI. The poll, conducted by YouGov last month with a sample of 1,500 across the British population, including recent immigrants, found almost half (46 per cent) have no religion, up from 42 per cent in February 2015 and from 37 per cent in January 2013. The figure rises to more than 50 per cent among white British, The Sunday Times reported. The increase in agnosticism is most pronounced among those aged under 40. “There has been a revolutionary generational change in our religious identity from the norm being Christian to the norm being ‘no religion’,” said Linda Woodhead, professor in the sociology of religion at Lancaster University, who will officially unveil the figures at the British Academy lecture. In her address, “Why ‘no religion’ is the new religion,” she will argu...
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