Notes
1 While the 2001 UK census, widely criticised as inaccurately worded, put the percentage of those declaring a Christian affiliation at 74, Siegers (Citation2010) has found that 65.5 per cent of the population are either indifferent to religious concepts and practice on are non-believers and non-practitioners of religion (with a further 11 per cent associated with alternative spiritualities). Park et al. (Citation2010) and Zuckerman (Citation2005) put the figure of non believers and non affiliators at around 40 per cent.
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