` == religion ==  Hello, perhaps the religion section of this article could be touched up a bit.  For example, Jewish English people are given quite a mention but not Hindu or Moslem.  According to the demographics of England article..? # Muslim: 3.1% # Hindu: 1.1% # Sikh: 0.7% # Jewish: 0.5% I have nothing against Jewish people, but why are they singled out above the other religions..?    :Perhaps because there are people whose ethnicity is English or British and whose religion is Jewish, but very few whose religion is Muslim or Sikh?  I think though that the number of indigenous British people whose religion, if they have one, is not Christian is so insignificant that any inclusion other than Christianity is irrelevant to the facts that are trying to be presented.   *Having just read over the religion section again, why does it bother talking about Irish immigration or Jewish immigration?  The article is meant to be about people who are of a particular ethnic group, not who live in a particular country.    I agree, it's all kind of a fuzzy area.  But you don't want to just say that all English are Christians and Atheists in the end it depends on how you define English.     ::This whole article is about defining the English.  The way it has gone, it has done so on an ethnic/racial basis.  Black and Asian people living in Britain who aren't Christian can claim to be of English or British ethnicity if they have that blood, that is, an indigenous parent or grandparent or something less diluted, and if there is a sizeable proportion of these people in the UK who aren't Christian but Hindu or Muslim, then yes, there is a basis to include those religions as religions of people who are of the English ethnicity.   Why is there a religious section and a need for a religious section?  Surely the figures only reflect the people living in Rngland, not the English people?  Secondly, I don't see how it's so relevant that it needs to be but in the fact box? ( ) :I don't know why there is a religious section. Maybe the infobox contains one by default. If you think it is a good idea to remove religion fromthe infobox then I would agree with you, but we need to see what the general feeling of other editors is. I don't think that religion is a big issue in England, most people are not religious, though would probably describe themselves as CofE.    Don't historically Calvinist peoples (Huguenots and Presbyterians) have a greater ethnocultural relationship with the English (Puritans) than others?  This would mean the areas which have had significant Calvinist movements: France, Scotland, Ireland and the Holy Roman Rhineland (Palatines).  Incidentally, these very places were on the royal coat of arms as displayed by King William III of England.  While most people see Orangist activities and politics to be controversial, they would not deny the basically close cultural relationships in the Calvinist web.  This is not so for the Lutheran issue (am I right?) that developed as a result of the 1701 Act of Settlement, which alienated the common man in those times by introducing truer foreigners than William actually was.  William's Orange-Nassau territories straddled the old Duchy of Burgundy; the English and Burgundians were allies and trading partners for a reasonably long time.     The assumption that some people self-identify as English is questionable at best. The article on Scottish people does not make a similar distinction, and I think we should use that article as a template.  :Why is it questionable that some people self-identify as English? Are you implying that no one self-identifies as English? In that case there would be no English people at all, which is rather a strange thing to claim. Scottish people does not have a religion section at all, so how can it be a temlate? I can only assume that you are implying that the descendants of recent immigrants do not self identify as English, to which I can only answer that anyone that holds this view clearly has no idea whatsoever about modern England, I personally know several people who are muslims and of Pakistani origin that strongly identify as English. See: Asian recruits boost England fan army      Hi, I'm not a member here, so