BELIEFS KEY STATISTICS

KENDAL PROJECT - ONE SUNDAY IN NOVEMBER

7.9% of its towns population attended one if its 22 churches

EILEEN BARKER (NUMBER OF NRMS)

could be around 2000

TURNER (NEW RELIGIONS NUMBER)

10,000 new religions 1ith 12 million or so more adherents

CENSUS - JEDI KNIGHTS

2001, 390,000 brits declared themselves Jedi Knights

2011 VS 2021 CHRISTIAN

59.3% vs 46.2%

2011 VS 2021 NO RELIGION

25.2% vs 37.2%

2011 vs 2021 MUSLIM

4.9% vs 6.5%

NUMBER OF MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE?

1.5 billion

CROCKETT AND SECULARISATION

English church census population, 50% if adult population attend church in the 1850s whereas 7.5% in 2000, half of all marriages in Uk now none religious and less than a quarter of all babies baptised compared to two thirds in 1950

CENSUS DATA - DO YOU HAVE A RELIGION VS ARE YOU RELIGIOUS

68% have a religion but 29% are religious

MUSLIMS UNDER 55

88% of Muslims are under 55

2011 CENSUS

22% of those who identify as Christian were over 65, compared with only 3.9% of Muslims. Contrastingly 88% of Muslims were under 50

ISLAM AGE PROFILE

young age profile, a third were under 25

BRIERLEY - CHURCH GOERS

the average age of church goers increased from 37 to 49 between 1979 and 2005

MIDDLE CLASS

62% of church goers are middle class

CHURCH CENSUS GENDER

In 2005, congregations were dived by 57% of women and 43% men

OPINION POLL - GENDER

84% of women believed in God vs 64% of men