from Religion Media Centre
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A Theos report into Christian Nationalism in the UK suggests 11 per cent of those surveyed could be identified as Christian nationalists. The report ‘Beyond Christian Nationalism’, says this group has a strong sense of national identity and is deeply concerned about the state of the nation with hostility to immigration, asylum and Islam.
Members are likely to be older, from C2DE social groups, and white, and are likely to vote Reform. Although 81 per cent say they are Christians, only 13 per cent attend church weekly.
Theos gleaned this information from a survey of 1,765 people in the UK, which identified five different ways of understanding the relationship between Christianity and Britishness. Christian nationalist ideas were the least common.
The findings form part of a larger study of the phenomenon across six European countries, with further results to be published later.
The RMC is running a briefing on the report tomorrow, Tuesday 13 October, at 1200 with guests including report author Dr Nick Spencer, and US president of PRRI, Dr Robert P Jones.
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