Monthly Archives: February 2010

Examination Performance of Muslim Schools

The current issue (No. 250, 26 February 2010) of The Muslim News, the independent monthly newspaper for Muslims in the UK, features a league table of the 2009 GCSE (and equivalent) examination performance of 1,683 students attending 63 Muslim schools … Continue reading

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What do we think of the Pope?

Pope Benedict XVI is to visit Great Britain later this year. But how do British people rate him? Some clues to this are given in the latest (the fifth) wave of the world leaders opinion barometer, undertaken by Harris Interactive … Continue reading

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Attitudes to Muslims: Round-Up of Recent YouGov Polls

Founded only in 2000, YouGov has rapidly become one of the best-known polling companies in contemporary Britain. It operates mainly via online interviews among a panel of more than 250,000 adults aged 18 and over. Although YouGov has undertaken relatively few … Continue reading

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Religion in the Millennium Cohort Study

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London has recently released some findings from the third survey of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) as they relate to the religious affiliation and worship practices of mothers of five-year … Continue reading

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Jewish Emigration from the United Kingdom to Israel

The Jewish Agency for Israel has announced that the number of United Kingdom Jews emigrating to Israel, or making Aliyah, in 2009 was, at 853, the highest recorded figure in 26 years and 37 per cent above the 2008 level. … Continue reading

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Religious Attendance in Cross-National Perspective

Why are some countries more religious than others? A partial answer to this question is provided by two Dutch sociologists, Stijn Ruiter and Frank van Tubergen, in a very recent (notwithstanding the November 2009 cover date) article in the American … Continue reading

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Religion and Politics – A New Opinion Poll

Since its launch in November 2006 the public theology think tank, Theos, has performed valuable service in a number of ways, not least (in the cause of religious statistics) by commissioning a series of opinion polls to gauge public attitudes … Continue reading

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Religion and Community Cohesion

The Department for Communities and Local Government published 2008-09 Citizenship Survey: Community Cohesion Topic Report by Cheryl Lloyd on 18 February 2010. It runs to 196 pages and is available for free download at: http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/pdf/1473353.pdf This is the first of … Continue reading

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Baptist Union Statistics, 2002-08

Headline findings from the Baptist Union of Great Britain’s latest statistical returns are featured on the front page of the current issue of the Baptist Times (dated 19 February 2010). The results, which cover the years 2002-08 are mixed. Hence … Continue reading

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British Social Attitudes Survey, 2008

British Social Attitudes: The 26th Report by Alison Park and others was published by Sage on 26 January 2010 (£50, ISBN 9781849203876). It comprises a series of essays based upon the findings of the 2008 British Social Attitudes survey, conducted … Continue reading

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