Forty-somethings are losing their religion, according to new figures from the study of a group of babies born in the 1970s.
Coming just days after the prime minister and the present and former Archbishop of Canterbury weighed in on a debate over whether Britain is a Christian country, the study found all denominations had lost support but that the Church of England lost most.
The findings are the latest from the UK Data Service’s British Cohort Study, which has been following the lives of more than 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970. Of the original numbers in the study, 9,841 still remain, and are now aged 42.
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(London Times) UK Forty-somethings are losing their faith, study finds
Forty-somethings are losing their religion, according to new figures from the study of a group of babies born in the 1970s.
Coming just days after the prime minister and the present and former Archbishop of Canterbury weighed in on a debate over whether Britain is a Christian country, the study found all denominations had lost support but that the Church of England lost most.
The findings are the latest from the UK Data Service’s British Cohort Study, which has been following the lives of more than 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970. Of the original numbers in the study, 9,841 still remain, and are now aged 42.
Read it all (requires subscription).