Monthly Archives: April 2010

Quadrant and FutureFirst

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Two extremely useful bi-monthly newsletters for anybody interested in religious and social statistics are Quadrant (ISSN 1351-9220) and FutureFirst (ISSN 2040-0268). They are published by Christian Research and Brierley Consultancy respectively and distributed to members of each organization as part … Continue reading →

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Do Aliens Walk the Earth?

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Who believes that aliens live among us? Quite a lot of us, apparently, according to a Thomson Reuters News Service poll released on 8 April. It was conducted by Ipsos, between 4 November 2009 and 13 January 2010, in 22 … Continue reading →

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National Churches Trust Survey [Updated]

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The National Churches Trust (NCT) has recently issued a press release to announce the imminent launch, on 15 April, of a questionnaire-based survey of all 47,000 Christian places of worship in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This is intended … Continue reading →

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Religious Easter

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Clive D. Field

It is a little after the event, but there does appear to have been one opinion poll this Easter which took the pulse of religiosity. It was conducted online on 1-2 April by YouGov among a representative sample of 1,503 … Continue reading →

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Sunday Trading

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Easter may have only just been and gone, but the minds of many large-scale retailers in England and Wales are already on the Christmas season. Specifically, they are focused on the fact that Boxing Day this year will fall on … Continue reading →

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Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Eric Kaufmann was published by Profile Books on 25 March (xxii + 330pp., ISBN 978 1 84668 144 8, £15.00, but currently available from Amazon for … Continue reading →

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Religion in the Armed Forces

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The UK Ministry of Defence might seem an improbable source of religious statistics. In fact, it (and its predecessor departments) has long been enquiring into the religious affiliation of the armed forces, from the 1860s for the Army, the 1930s … Continue reading →

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Secular Easter

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Easter may be the holy of holies in the Christian calendar, but for most of us it is little more than a longish secular holiday, moderately ruined in many years (including 2010) by indifferent weather. International Christendom still cannot agree … Continue reading →

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Church of England Cathedrals

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The Church of England published headline mission statistics for 2009 for its 43 cathedrals on 30 March. They will be found at: http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/statistics/cathedralattendances1995to2009.pdf Key findings and trends include the following: The number of worshippers attending cathedral services across the average … Continue reading →

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Spring Harvest

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Ever since its foundation in 1979, Spring Harvest has been one of the highlights of the British evangelical calendar. Its ‘Main Event’ is an interdenominational and all-age residential gathering of Bible teaching, (modern) worship, workshops, relaxation and equipping the Church … Continue reading →

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