Faith and Religion

The gap between reality and perception is often massive. This is illustrated by a new survey carried out for the Royaumont Talks, whose theme this year was "Believing". The results were presented on 1 December at Royaumont Abbey by Didier Truchot, founder and chairman of Ipsos. In this survey, Ipsos tested the beliefs of the population in ten major countries on a range of social, political, economic and current affairs issues – and compared them with actual data.

People across 23 countries are divided on religion’s impact on the world, but most say they are tolerant of people with different beliefs to them. Six in ten Britons – above the global average – believe religion does more harm than good, and only one in four say religion defines them as a person. 

Online survey into perceptions of spirituality among science, engineering, technical and medical professionals in the UK, Germany and France.