       religion in the united kingdom and in the countries that preceded it has been dominated, for over 1,400 years, by various forms of christianity. according to the national census, a majority of citizens identify as christians, although regular church attendance has fallen dramatically since the middle of the twentieth century, and immigration and demographic change have contributed to the growth of other faiths. religious affiliations of united kingdom citizens are recorded by regular surveys, the four major ones being the uk census, the labour force survey, the british social attitudes survey and the european social survey. according to the 2011 uk census, christianity is the major religion, followed by islam, hinduism, sikhism, judaism and buddhism in terms of number of adherents. this, and the relatively large number of individuals with nominal or no religious affiliations, has led commentators to variously describe the united kingdom as a multi-faith, secularised, or post-christian society. the united kingdom was formed by the union of previously independent countries from 1707, and consequently most of the largest religious groups do not have uk-wide organisational structures. while some groups have separate structures for the individual countries of the united kingdom, others may have a single structure covering england and wales or 
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