From the London TelegraphAccording to the study, only 12 per cent of Britons feel they "belong" to a church, compared with 52 per cent in France.
It also found that the UK has one of the highest rates of "fuzzy faith" - or people who have an abstract belief in God and an ill-defined loyalty to Christian traditions.
The study, conducted as part of the influential EU-funded European Social Survey, will be seen as an indicator of a shift in attitudes and values.
Professor David Voas, of Manchester University's Institute for Social Change, who led the project, said the UK was involved in a "long process of disestablishment", with Christianity gradually being written out of laws and political institutions.
"Christian faith will soon have no role among our traditional establishments or lawmakers," he said. "It remains to be seen for example, how much longer bishops will be allowed to sit in the House of Lords."
He added: "Fuzzy faith is a staging post on the road to non-religion. Adults still have childhood memories of being taken to church, and they maintain a nostalgic affection for Christianity but that is dying out.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5030049/Britons-are-believers-of-fuzzy-faith-says-survey.html
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