Ticking “no religion”: A case study amongst “young nones”

In the 2011 Census in England and Wales, 14.1 million people, about a quarter of the population, reported that they have “no religion”. At the time, campaign groups such as the British Humanist Association claimed that this meant these people were “non-religious”. But is this necessarily the case? M...

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Main Author: Wallis, Simeon (Author)
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