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Christianity in the UK is flourishing in immigrant communities – but a US-style Christian nationalism is lurking elsewhere

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By Mathew Guest
| MSN UK Verified
Mathew Guest, Professor in the Sociology of Religion, Durham University Polling company YouGov has thrown into question claims of a recent upsurge in church attendance among young adults. This has not surprised someexperts, who cite evidence for the more conventional story of steep religious decline. If Christianity was once central to British society, that claim remains difficult to sustain in the 21st century. Church membership and attendance have bothfallen sharplyin recent decades.
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Christianity in the UK is flourishing in immigrant communities – but a US-style Christian nationalism is lurking elsewhere

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By Mathew Guest
| Inkl
Polling company YouGov has thrown into question claims of a recent upsurge in church attendance among young adults. This has not surprised some experts, who cite evidence for the more conventional story of steep religious decline. If Christianity was once central to British society, that claim remains difficult to sustain in the 21st century. Church membership and attendance have both fallen sharply in recent decades. In England, 11.7% of the population attended church on a typical Sunday in 1979.
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Christianity in the UK is flourishing in immigrant communities – but a US-style Christian nationalism is lurking elsewhere

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By Mathew Guest
| Tolerance Canada
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