Acknowledgement of Sources

UK Christian population data, for England and Wales, is acknowledged as Source: National Statistics website www.statistics.gov.uk. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO. For Scotland, see the General Register Office for Scotland website; and for Northern Ireland, see the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency website. Estimates of the global Christian population are taken from David Barrett and George Kurian, World Christian Encylopaedia: Survey of Churches and Religions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2^nd edition, 2000).

Information on a range of UK, national and regional Christian organisations are included in P. Weller (ed.), Religions in the UK: A Directory, 2001-3 (Derby: Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Derby, 2001). However, P. Brierley (ed.), UK Christian Handbook, (London: Christian Research) is the most comprehensive single source of information on Christian organisations and places of worship in the UK.

The data on the number of Christian places of worship is taken from the Annual Register of Statistics of the Registrar General in the Office for National Statistics, as at 30^th June 1999. 

The section on a ‘A Short Introduction to Christianity’ summarises and abstracts from the same publication’s chapter on ‘Introducing Christians in the UK’ (pp. 203-236) which was developed with input from a range of consultants (pp. 643-650).

Materials in the sections on ‘Christians in the UK: Key Information’ and ‘Christian Origins: Key Developments in the UK’ were originally developed by the author for the British Council and used here by kind permission.

Written by Professor Paul Weller