A new paper published in Demographic Research suggests that the religiously unaffiliated are projected to decline as a share of the world’s population in coming decades. A net growth of unaffiliated people through religious switching is predicted to be more than offset by higher childbearing among the younger affiliated population. The paper starts from background data saying…
The interfaith movement in the UK faces many challenges. Some of its representative bodies face allegations of collusion with unrepresentative, right wing, extremist groups; some are the subject of allegations from dissenting and minority faith traditions who feel excluded them from the table of dialogue; all have to cope with the seductions of state and…
A new study published by the Pew Research Society finds that 27{286427c60984e496d8f2e542e7d21c54ddb5734529e6fb3e21d1c17283afa115} of countries had ‘high’ or ‘very high’ levels of social hostilities involving religion in 2013 (the latest year covered in the report). The figure represented a fall from 33{286427c60984e496d8f2e542e7d21c54ddb5734529e6fb3e21d1c17283afa115} in 2012. The hostilities range from vandalism of religious property and desecration of sacred texts to…
