Is Britain A Secular Society?

It is widely believed that Britain is one of the worlds most secular •societies. Certainly within the area of western Christianity only the Scan¬dinavian countries are more lax in their regular institutional practice. Furthermore, the figures for British institutional religion are inflated by the contribution of what has been a migrant population of Catholic Irish and by the relative fidelity of the Welsh and Scots . If one were to take the regular worship of English Protestants alone it might well rival Scandinavian figures.