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What jumps out immediately is that, \u2018No religion\u2019 is now the biggest category, as a result of large numbers of people switching out from Christianity. What this chart also makes obvious is that very few British people switch religions,. What switching there is seems to mostly be out of religion altogether.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, non-Christians almost all have stayed religious \u2013 very few have switched out to non-religion. I guess that\u2019s because these people are mostly first or second-generation immigrants, for whom religion forms an important part of their cultural identity.<\/p>\n

Now compare the UK chart with one done for the US by Internet Monk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Some things are similar. Most notably, a lot of people have converted to \u2018no religion\u2019. Unlike the UK, however, some people move from \u2018No religion\u2019 into a religious group. That hardly ever happens in the UK, and perhaps reflects the social pressures on US individuals to be at least nominally religious.<\/p>\n

In the US, there seems to be more switching in general, however. Unlike the UK, there\u2019s noticeable switching from Catholic to Protestant (and vice versa), and even back and forth from \u2018other\u2019 religions.<\/p>\n

I wonder why this should be? <\/p>\n

$\"Creative$ <\/a><\/span> This article by Tom Rees<\/b> was first published on Epiphenom<\/a>. It is licensed under Creative Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"