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Our research at Theos shows there has been a decline in the popularity of funerals, with fewer than half of people we surveyed saying they want one.

I imagined that the teen Theo would go on to take one life course and adult Theo would have emerged from a different one, and that these two Theos, unaware of each other’s existence, would meet.

But Nick Spencer, senior fellow at think tank Theos, which stimulates debate about religion in society, warns of dangers in unrestricted recognition and legal protection of people's beliefs.

Trying to quantify that is "trying to prove a negative", says Simon Perfect, a researcher for Christian think tank Theos.

In fact, the British public’s attitudes to all matters spiritual are a bit confused, to judge by an opinion poll on a slightly different topic, published this week by Theos, a religious think-tank.