Monthly Archives: June 2011

Falling Interest in Catholicism Online

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Interest in Roman Catholicism appears to be falling worldwide according to a new analysis of Google searches published on 3 June on the Nineteen Sixty-Four research blog of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Religion Online, visualisation | Tagged CARA, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University, Google, internet, John Paul II, Nineteen Sixty-Four, Roman Catholicism | Leave a comment

Anglicans Trialing Web-Based Data Capture

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The June 2011 issue of In Review, the newssheet of the National Church Institutions of the Church of England, reports that six dioceses (Bradford, Lichfield, Manchester, Newcastle, Southwell and Nottingham, and Worcester) have been trialing an online data collection system … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations | Tagged Church of England, Lynda Barley | 1 Comment

Methodism’s Triennial Returns

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Clive D. Field

‘Statistics do not provide a complete narrative about the health of the Church. Headline figures must be treated with caution and understood as only limited measures of Church activity. The use of figures in isolation from wider contextual information can … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Rites of Passage | Tagged Methodism, Methodist Church, statistics for mission | 1 Comment

Turbulent Priest?

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The nation is split down the middle about whether senior clergy should comment on political issues, according to a new survey. This follows the Archbishop of Canterbury’s guest-editorship of last week’s issue of the left-leaning New Statesman magazine, which provided … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Coalition Government, New Statesman, politics, Rowan Williams, Sunday Times, YouGov | 2 Comments

Immigrant Religiosity

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Clive D. Field

First-generation immigrants to the UK are three times as likely as natives to claim to attend religious services at least weekly and to pray in private daily. They are also more religious than immigrants to most other European countries on … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, Survey news | Tagged European Social Survey, Frank van Tubergen, immigrants, Jorunn Sindradottir, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, prayer, self-assessed religiosity, Utrecht University | Leave a comment

Telling the Story of the 2001 Religious Census

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Much has been written about the results of the religion question in the 2001 census of population of Great Britain, but rather less is known about how that question came to be asked in the first place. This followed a four-year … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Official data, Religion and Politics | Tagged Census, Jamil Sherif, John Dixie, Journal of Beliefs & Values, Leslie Francis, Muslim Council of Britain, Office for National Statistics, Religious Affiliation | Leave a comment

Is the BBC Christianophobic?

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Clive D. Field

‘The BBC “is ageist and anti-Christian”: that’s the verdict of the Corporation’s OWN survey’, ran the headline over an article by Paul Revoir in yesterday’s edition of the Daily Mail, although the paper’s reporter had to confess that ‘it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Organisational data, Religion in the Press | Tagged anti-Christian prejudice, BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, Christianophobia, Daily Mail, diversity, Islamophobia, Public Knowledge | 2 Comments

Religion and Politics among Ethnic Minorities in Britain

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Maria Sobolewska

The Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted at the last general election thanks to the generous support of the ESRC contains a plethora of questions on religious belonging and practices of the five largest ethnic minority groups in Britain. The EMBES team are currently working on a paper concerning how the religious involvement of minorities impact on political behaviour and attitudes. We are welcoming this chance to share with the BRIN audience some of our preliminary findings. Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics | Tagged Anthony Heath, Civic Engagement, David Sanders, EMBES, ESRC, Ethnic Minority British Election Study, Maria Sobolewska, religious participation, Steve Fisher | 1 Comment

Attitudes towards Different Religious Groups in Britain: Survey Data Sources

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Ben Clements

This post highlights some of the survey resources – available for general usage – which allow researchers to examine public views towards religious groups in Britain. The three surveys used are the European Values Study, the Pew Global Attitudes Project surveys, and the British Social Attitudes surveys.
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Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged American Grace, Ben Clements, British Social Attitudes Survey, David Campbell, David Voas, European Values Study, Feeling Thermometer, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Robert Putnam, Rod Ling | Leave a comment

Monthly Archives: June 2011

Falling Interest in Catholicism Online

Anglicans Trialing Web-Based Data Capture

Methodism’s Triennial Returns

Turbulent Priest?

Telling the Story of the 2001 Religious Census

Is the BBC Christianophobic?

Religion and Politics among Ethnic Minorities in Britain

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