Religion
| Christianity | 63.9% | Islam | 1.7% |
| No religion | 18.7% | Judaism | 0.4% |
| No response | 11.2% | Other | 2% |
| Buddhism | 2.1% | ||
| Christianity (as % of total) | |
| Roman Catholicism | 25.8% |
| Anglicanism | 18.7% |
| Other denomination | 19.4% |
Australians have various religions and spiritual beliefs. The Australian Bureau of Statistics gathers information on religious belief in the national census. As in many Western countries, the level of active participation in church worship is lower than would be indicated by the proportion of the population identifying themselves as Christian; weekly attendance at church services is about 1.5 million, or about 7.5% of the population.
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“The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador’s chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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