2. THE RATE OF PEOPLE STATING THEY HAVE NO
RELIGION IN THE UK
IS INCREASING AND WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE
3. WHAT IS RELIGION?
Religion is an
organized collection of
beliefs, cultural system,
and world views that
relate humanity to an
order of
existence.(wiki2015)
4. THE RELIGION IN THE UK
Christianity.
Islamic.
Hinduism.
Sikhism
Judaism
Buddhism.
No religion/Atheism
59%25%
5%
4%
7%
RELIGION PERCENTAGE IN 2011
christianity No religion Islamic Others Not stated
Office for national statistics (2013)”The percentage of the population with no religion has increased in England and Wales” (online pie chart) available:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/sty-religion.html (accessed 30 Nov 2015).
5. 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
No religion Christian Muslim Other Not stated
RELIGION IN THE UK
2001 2011
25.1%
71.7%
59.3%
3% 4.8% 3.6%
7.2%
2.8%
14.8%
7.7%
Office for national statistics (2013)”The percentage of the population with no religion has increased in England and Wales” (online bar chart) available:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/sty-religion.html (accessed 30 Nov 2015).
6. WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF THIS INCREASE?
Wiki(2015) “Atheism” (online)
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Atheism accessed 30 Nov 2015
8. LAWS
Funcage (2012) “Weird & Wonderful British laws” ( image online) available:
http://www.funcage.com/blog/weird-wonderful-british-laws/ (accessed 30NOV 2015).
Tom Hodgkinson (2015)”Longer Sunday trading could spell the corporate takeover of our day of rest” (image online) available:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/mar/20/sunday-trading-corporate-takeover (accessed 30 Nov 2015).
RT (2012)”Russian church defends Brits who lost jobs for wearing crucifix” (image online) available:
https://www.rt.com/news/church-human-rights-symbols-faith-805/ (accessed 30 Nov 2015).
10. WILL NO RELIGION INCREASE IN THE UK?
30.7
18.7
34.4
48.4
30.2
31.5
25.2
25.5
39.4
34.7
47.7
41.6
39.5
30.2
45.2
50.3
31.0
42.2
18.1
24.3
15.6
8.1
18.7
15.2
18.3
21.1
12.8
16.4
9.2
8.3
3.9
21.0
8.1
6.2
22.3
5.6
ALL
OTHER…
SIKH
MUSLIM
JEWISH
HINDU
BUDDHIST
CHRISTIAN
NO RELIGION
RELIGION BY AGE 2011
0 – 24 25 – 49 50 – 64 Age 65 +
Office for national statistics (2013)”The percentage of the population with no religion has increased in England and Wales” (online chart) available:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/sty-religion.html (accessed 30 Nov 2015).
11.
12. REFERENCE
Office for national statistics (2013)”The percentage of the population with no religion has increased in England and
Wales” (online) available:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/sty-
religion.html(accessed 30 Nov 2015).
Find law UK (20015)” What does the law say about working on Sundays?” (online) available:
http://findlaw.co.uk/law/employment/pay_and_work_rights/working_hours/8383.html (accessed 30 Nov 2015).
The unbounded spirit (2012) “The negative effects of religion on society”
http://theunboundedspirit.com/the-negative-effects-of-religion-on-society/ (accessed 30 Nov 2015).
David Hayward (2012) “religion is fear” (online) available:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nakedpastor/2012/12/religion-is-fear/ (accessed 30 Nov 2015)
d 30 Nov 2015).
Editor's Notes
Gooday everyone, my name is Aderibigbe adeola.
My topic today is about the religion in the UK, majorly on the rate of people stating they have no religion in the UK if this is increasing and will continue to increase…
Firstly, what is religion? According to some estimate there are 4200 religions in the world and the 5 largest are: Christanity, Islamic, Hinduism, Buddhism, and traditional folk religion
Well, in the uk there are six major types of religion and we also have the no religion also known as atheism. And the graph here is showing the percentage of the religions in the uk 2011 census.
From this bar chart, it’s shows religion percentage from 2001 to 2011. As you can see the level of no religion had increased by % in the 2011 census, the Christian religion has dropped by % in 2011 and the muslims seems to have an increase by
Yes, What are the causes of this increase in no religion in the uk?
1, war & conflicts. Many of the people stating they have no religion in the UK belive that religion is the major causes of war,conflict and problems in the world. This had made a lot of people to rather not to have a religion than to cause any conflict and reduce the rate of ignorance
Another, reason is the laws in the UK about working on Sunday. People are allowed to open shops only 6hrs on Sunday, this made people belief that if they don’t have a religion they can work on Sunday and another law is about Christians,are not allowed to put on cross to work or even pray in public meetings.
Atheism, believe that having a religion brings about fear. For example when u disobey God and u become scared that you would go to hell, as for them they believe having no religion you can do wat u like without getting scared that you have committed a sin.