{"id":20333,"date":"2023-12-17T03:27:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T03:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=20333"},"modified":"2023-12-17T03:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T03:27:29","slug":"christianity-is-disappearing-in-england-as-seen-in-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2023\/12\/17\/christianity-is-disappearing-in-england-as-seen-in-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity Is Disappearing in England, As Seen in Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GREAT BRITAIN, December 15, 2023 (Atlas Obscura): October 25, 2022 has been called Britain\u2019s \u201cObama Moment\u201d: On that day, Rishi Sunak became the country\u2019s first ever non-white Prime Minister. But Britain\u2019s current head of government represents an even bigger change. As a practicing Hindu, Sunak also is Britain\u2019s first non-Christian PM. And although Sunak won his post via an internal poll among Conservative Party Members of Parliament rather than a general election, on that last point at least his tenure is timely and symbolic. Because, as confirmed by the published results of the 2021 census, England is\u2014for the first time in more than almost 1,500 years\u2014no longer a majority Christian country. The big winner is not any other religion, but \u201cno religion.\u201d This is, in other words, also England\u2019s \u201cDover Beach\u201d moment, when the Sea of Faith retreats in a \u201cmelancholy, long, withdrawing roar.\u201d [That&#8217;s in reference to poem, <a href=\"https:\/\/poemanalysis.com\/matthew-arnold\/dover-beach\/\">https:\/\/poemanalysis.com\/matthew-arnold\/dover-beach\/<\/a>, about the loss of faith in the mid 1800s due to the advent of science.]<br><br>In late November 2022, the UK\u2019s Office for National Statistics published results for the religion question from the census (which covers England and Wales, but not Scotland or Northern Ireland). The ONS website also offers the results in the form of an interactive map, allowing for a cartographic exploration of the latest religious statistics for England and Wales. Two responses showed a marked increase: those who said they were Muslim, and people saying they were Hindu, which was up from 1.5 percent to 1.7 percent (818K to 1 million). London remains England\u2019s most religiously diverse region. Christian is still the most common response (40.7 percent, 3.6 million), but 25.3 percent (2.2 million) identify with other religions, up from 22.6 percent (1.8 million) in 2021. The third most popular response in London was \u201cHindu\u201d (5.1 percent, up from 5 percent). Harrow, in Northwest London, has the highest share of Hindus in England and Wales (25.8 percent, up from 25.3 percent).<br><br>More at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/less-christianity-england\n\">https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/less-christianity-england<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT BRITAIN, December 15, 2023 (Atlas Obscura): October 25, 2022 has been called Britain\u2019s \u201cObama Moment\u201d: On that day, Rishi,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20345,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333\/revisions\/20345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}