La place de la religion en Grande-Bretagne

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publié le 18/07/2008

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Nowadays in the modern western countries, religion is becoming less and less important, and that includes Great-Britain. Since the end of Second World War, religion has lost its grip on people’s lives and this for many reasons. According to the many polls that had been made recently by a national organism, just over three-quarters of the United Kingdom population was reported having a religion. The main religion is still Christianity, with more than seven out of ten people. The second religion is Islam, with nearly 3 per cent describing their religion as Muslim (that represents about 1.6 million people). The next largest religious groups are Hindus (559 thousand), followed by Sikhs (336 thousand), Jews (267 thousand), Buddhists (152 thousand), and people from Other religions (179 thousand). These groups each accounted for less than 1 per cent and together accounted for a further 3 per cent of the United Kingdom population. About sixteen per cent of the United Kingdom population stated that they had no religion. This category includes agnostics, atheists, heathens and those who wrote Jedi Knight. However, even if Christianity is still the main religion in Great Britain, people with no religion form the second largest group, which thus comprise 15 per cent of the population. Those statistics are quite the same in all European countries, but for French people, Britain can be considered as a more religious country, because of the principle of secularism. Indeed in France religion and the state are completely separated since 1905, to avoid interference from religion over domains such as education or politics. And thus it seems odd to French people that religion has the opportunity to have influence in public domains.

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Differences between France and Great-Britain : Great-Britain seems to be more religious while in France secularism seems to prevails
But in fact, just as France and many other European countries, Great-Britain is becoming less and less religious

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