From : The Guardian
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An absorbing and witty examination of Britain's spiritual health finds a strong pulse in the body religious, despite the decline of traditional Christianity.
When it comes to religion, the connection between believing and belonging is a tangled one. The notion of an established church or credo representing the nation at prayer stretches back through history and lingers on, to almost everyone's dissatisfaction, in the current Church of England. For, in Britain at least, alongside all the other privatisations of recent decades, there has been a privatisation of faith, with people exploring religion in their heads and hearts but increasingly rarely in houses of God. They believe but they don't want to belong to denominations – for the sorts of reasons that have been all too apparent in recent weeks with the crisis in Catholicism over paedophile priests.
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