Monthly Archives: September 2010

Daybreak Surveys Religion

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Daybreak is the new breakfast television programme for the ITV network, anchored by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley and launched on 6 September. It has made an early entry into surveying public opinion by commissioning YouGov to run a poll on … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged attendance at religious services, child abuse, Christianity, church weddings, Citizenship Survey, Daybreak, Faith schools, inter-faith marriage, ITV, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Religious Affiliation, religious leaders, respect, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse, YouGov | Leave a comment

Superstition

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The British continue to be a pretty superstitious bunch, according to research published by 72point (the news, public relations and survey specialists) on 16 September. No fewer than 14 million adults admit to regularly carrying out everyday tasks they believe … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged 72Point, luck, Racing for Change, superstition | 1 Comment

Church Attendance in England, 2005

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

The debate over the Christian Research data last week, together with coverage of the papal visit, led me to look at church attendance data from the 2005 English Church Census. I wanted to look again to see which areas of England had higher rates of church attendance, and specifically which areas looked more Catholic.
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Posted in Measuring religion | Tagged Christian Research, City of London, English church census, Pentecostalists, Peter Brierley, Roman Catholics, Spatial analysis | 4 Comments

Citizenship Survey, 2008-09 – Religion

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Clive D. Field

On 14 September the Department for Communities and Local Government published online 2008-09 Citizenship Survey: Race, Religion and Equalities Topic Report by Chris Ferguson and David Hussey. It comprises a PDF document of 113 pages plus 105 statistical tables in … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged Chris Ferguson, Citizenship Survey, David Hussey, Department for Communities and Local Government, equalities, government, Muslims, NatCen, race, racial and religious harassment, religious prejudice, religious rights | Leave a comment

Populus on the Papal Visit

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The opinion pollsters continue to pick up business from the now imminent papal visit to Scotland and England. Following the ComRes/BBC and YouGov/ITV surveys carried out among Catholics, reported by BRIN on Sunday and Monday, today brings a study of … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged abortion, child abuse, contraception, force for good, force for ill, gay adoption, homosexuality, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Populus, Roman Catholic Church, Ruth Gledhill, Sam Coates, sexual abuse, The Times, tolerance, understanding, women priests | 1 Comment

Britons Respond to Pastor Jones

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The ninth anniversary of 9/11 was somewhat overshadowed by the crisis precipitated by Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville (Florida), who planned to mark the occasion by an ‘International burn a Koran’ day but, in … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged 9/11, cartoons, freedom of expression, Islamophobia, Koran, Prophet Muhammad, Qur'an, racial hatred, Sunday Times, Terry Jones, United States Government, YouGov | 1 Comment

At Odds with the Church? Roman Catholic Opinion II

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Clive D. Field

As if the organizers of this week’s papal visit did not already have enough to worry about! More than three-quarters of the population apparently have no interest in the visit and oppose the state part-funding it out of taxpayers’ money, according … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged abortion, birth control, celibacy, contraception, homosexuality, ITV, Marie Stopes International, Michael Hornsby-Smith, priests, Roman Catholics, Tonight, YouGov | 1 Comment

Roman Catholic Opinion

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The recent spate of surveys triggered by the forthcoming papal visit continues with the publication this morning of a ComRes poll of a random sample of 500 UK Catholics conducted for the BBC between 6 and 9 September. Interviews were … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Andrew Hawkins, BBC, British society, Catholic faith, celibacy, children, ComRes, leadership, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, sexual abuse, women | 2 Comments

Christian Research and Churchgoing

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Two articles in yesterday’s broadsheet press gave somewhat conflicting assessments of the state of religion in contemporary Britain, in the lead-in to the papal visit to Britain, which starts next Thursday. Writing in The Guardian, Julian Glover portrayed ‘a nation … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in the Press | Tagged Baptist Union, Benita Hewitt, British Social Attitudes Survey, Christian Research, church attendance, Church Mouse, Church of England, churchgoing, Daily Telegraph, David Voas, Julian Glover, Martin Beckford, Methodist Church, Peter Brierley, Roman Catholic Church, secularization, The Guardian | 6 Comments

Holocaust Education

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Policy-makers and older generations of Britons sometimes get worried that the Holocaust, and the events of the Second World War more generally, are fading from the public memory. Last year, for instance, there was extensive media coverage of a study … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Anti-Semitism, holocaust, Jews, Reformation, YouGov | Leave a comment

Monthly Archives: September 2010

Daybreak Surveys Religion

Superstition

Church Attendance in England, 2005

Citizenship Survey, 2008-09 – Religion

Populus on the Papal Visit

Britons Respond to Pastor Jones

At Odds with the Church? Roman Catholic Opinion II

Roman Catholic Opinion

Holocaust Education

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