{"id":55328,"date":"2016-08-07T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sunday_telegraph_decline_of_religion_in_britain_comes_to_a_halt_major_study\/"},"modified":"2016-08-07T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T15:00:24","slug":"sunday_telegraph_decline_of_religion_in_britain_comes_to_a_halt_major_study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55328","title":{"rendered":"(Sunday Telegraph) Decline of religion in Britain \u201d\u02dccomes to a halt\u2019 \u201d\u201c major study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is more than 130 years since Nietzsche declared that \u201cGod is dead\u201d\u009d, and forecasts of the demise of organised religion in the UK and elsewhere have been a regular fixture ever since.<\/p>\n<p>But new figures from Britain\u2019s longest-running and most important barometer of general public opinion suggest that reports of the imminent death of Christianity at least may have been greatly exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p>As-yet unpublished findings from this year\u2019s British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA), seen by the Sunday Telegraph, show decades of decline in religious affiliation appearing to level off.<\/p>\n<p>The overall proportion of Britons who described themselves as Christian actually rose one percentage point in the last year from 42 per cent to 43 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/08\/07\/decline-of-religion-in-britain-comes-to-a-halt--major-study-sugg\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is more than 130 years since Nietzsche declared that \u201cGod is dead\u201d\u009d, and forecasts of the demise of organised religion in the UK and elsewhere have been a regular fixture ever since. But new figures from Britain\u2019s longest-running and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55328\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,74,389,199,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}