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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2025

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 115, April 2025 features ten short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text (with URLs for sources, where available) can be downloaded from the following link No 115 April 2025

OPINION POLLS

Papal business: remembering Franciscus
Christianity, Church, and Bible enjoying ‘quiet revival’, according to Bible Society
Celebrating Easter in the UK in 2025: More in Common and YouGov polls
Claimed volunteering for religious and faith groups during the past year
UK Muslim perceptions and experiences of Islamophobia: Survation poll
Muslim World League poll conducted in Britain – has anybody seen it?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Fasting among regular churchgoers: Green Christian survey
UK undergraduates and the Bible
British Muslims in Numbers: latest update from the Muslim Council of Britain

ACADEMIC STUDY

Churchgoing in Edwardian Wales and Scotland

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2025

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, People news, Religion and Education, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Social Capital, Religious Census, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Bible, Bible Society, British Muslims in Numbers, census of population, Christianity, church attendance, Clive Field, Deltapoll, Easter, Edwardian age, fasting, Fusion, Gallup, Generation Z, Green Christian, Islamic Relief, Islamophobia, Jesus Christ, Lent, Local Historian, More in Common, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslim World League, Muslims, news stories, papacy, Patmos World Bible Attitudes Survey, Pope Francis, religious festivals, religious groups, religious prejudice, Rhiannon McAleer, Rob Barward-Symmons, Savanta, Scotland, Sky News, Survation, The Times, undergraduate students, volunteering, Wales, YouGov | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, March 2025

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 114, March 2025 features eleven short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text (with URLs for sources, where available) can be downloaded from the following link No 114 March 2025

OPINION POLLS

Religious switching in UK/abroad: more data from Pew Global Attitudes Survey, 2024
Religion of Englishness: More in Common polling
British beliefs about alien life: new YouGov poll

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Christian giving in the UK: Stewardship’s Generosity Report, 2025
SPCK’s claims about a surge in Bible sales and its linkage to Gen Z
Coronavirus Chronicles: Covid-19 and the ongoing decline of British Methodism
Facts and figures about the Israeli diaspora: Institute for Jewish Policy Research report
Value of Ramadan to British society and economy: Equi report

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Scottish Surveys Core Questions, 2023: religion question

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Ethnic harassment, religious identity, and wellbeing in the UK
Attitudes of UK Christians towards Jews, Israel, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2025

Posted in Covid-19, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged alien life, Anti-Semitism, Bible sales, Christian giving, Christianity, Cint Group, Covid-19, Daniel Staetsky, Equi, Ethnic and Racial Studies, ethnic harassment, Gen Z, Ingrid Storm, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Israel, Israel-Palestine conflict, Israeli diaspora, Jews, Jonathan Hustler, Kaya Burgess, Kirill Bumin, Mamnun Khan, Methodist Church, More in Common, Motti Inbari, Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Pew Research Center, Ramadan, religion of Englishness, Religious Affiliation, Religious Switching, Scottish Surveys Core Questions, SPCK Publishing, Stewardship, The Times, UK Household Longitudinal Survey, Whitestone Insight, YouGov | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, February 2025

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 113, February 2025 features twelve short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text (with URLs for sources, where available) can be downloaded from the following link No 113 February 2025

OPINION POLLS

Public opinion towards the Church of England: a further YouGov poll
Attitudes and worldviews of Gen Z: YouGov poll for The Times
Ipsos Valentine’s Day polling: love across the religious divide
Importance of teaching religious studies in secondary schools: YouGov tracker
Impact of summer 2024 riots on UK Muslim communities: Survation poll

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Snapshot of the musical life of (mostly) the Church of England
Community Security Trust’s anti-Semitic incidents report, 2024
Tell MAMA’s Islamophobic incidents report, 2024
Latest JPR research report: numbers of Jewish children in Jewish schools

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Demographic potential of non-parochial registers: the case of pre-1837 Methodism
Historical statistics of the Independent Methodist Connexion
Churchgoing in Edwardian England: a checklist of local newspaper censuses

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2025

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Education, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Adam Possener, afterlife, anti-Muslim hatred, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, attendance at places of worship, Carli Lessof, church music, Church of England, churchgoing, Clive Field, Community Security Trust, Edwardian age, far right demonstrations, favourable or unfavourable opinion, Gen Z, importance of religion in choosing romantic partner, importance of teaching religious studies in secondary schools, Independent Methodist Connexion, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos, Islamophobia, Jewish schools, Local Historian, Local Population Studies, Methodism, Muslims, newspaper censuses of church attendance, non-parochial registers, Philip Thornborow, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, registers of baptism and burial, religious education, religious prejudice, Royal School of Church Music, self-assessed religiosity, separation of Church and State, Southport, Survation, Tell MAMA, The Times, Valentine’s Day, YouGov | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, January 2025

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 112, January 2025 features eleven short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 112 January 2025

OPINION POLLS

Is ‘God’ making a comeback among the young? OnePoll survey seems to suggest so
The world of Gen Z as illuminated by Channel 4 and Craft
Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2024 wave: further releases
Latest (2024) wave of the Anti-Defamation League Global 100 Index of Antisemitism
Memorialization of the Holocaust: Claims Conference multinational survey
Memorialization of the Holocaust: Ipsos national survey
Likely causes of human extinction: YouGov restudy

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

United Reformed Church statistics, 2025
Is there a Jewish ‘exodus’ from the UK? Not according to JPR

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Methodist historical statistics, eighteenth century to the present
Roman Catholic historical statistics: England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2025

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged ADL Global 100 Index of Antisemitism, Alana Harris, Anti-Defamation League, Anti-Semitism, atheism, Bible’s influence on laws, British Catholic History, Catholicism in Numbers, Channel 4, Christopher Gasson, Claims Conference, Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Craft, David Jeremy, Devils’ Gospels, Gen Z, Global Strategy Group, God, holocaust, Holocaust denial, Holocaust Memorial Day, human extinction, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos, Jewish emigration, Jonathan Boyd, Langer Research Associates, Liam Temple, loyalty to Israel, Martin Camroux, Methodism, OnePoll, Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Pew Research Center, religion and national identity, religion and superstitious thinking, religion and tolerance, religion’s helpful or hurtful impact on society, religious apocalypse, Religious Belief, Religious discrimination, religious nationalism, Roman Catholic Church, spirituality, stereotypes about Jews, Timothea Kinnear, United Reformed Church, YouGov | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, December 2024

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 111, December 2024 features thirteen short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 111 December 2024

OPINION POLLS

Likes about Christmas: YouGov poll among British adults
Christmas in 1969 and 2024 compared: more of a family than a religious occasion
Bishops in the House of Lords: should they stay or should they go?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2023
National Secular Society research on the requirement to take GCSE Religious Studies
Anti-Semitic incidents in British universities, 2022–24

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religion and community life in England, 2023/24
Enhancing official data collection about Sikhs and Jews as ethnic groups
Diversity of the judiciary in England and Wales, 2024

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Brethren in the 1851 religious census of England and Wales
Religious life in Wiltshire during the 1860s
Local and regional case studies of organized Christianity in Britain since 1914
Representation of mosques in the British broadsheet press

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2024

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Education, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged 1851 Religious Census, anti-Semitic incidents, Brethren, Brethren Historical Review, broadsheet newspapers, Christmas, Church of England bishops, Church of England Diocese of Salisbury, Church of England Statistics for Mission, Community Life Survey, Community Security Trust, David Goodhew, Department for Culture Media and Sport, diversity of the judiciary, episcopal visitation queries, ethnic groups, focaldata, GCSE Religious Studies, Helen Taylor, House of Lords, Irfan Raja, Jews, Ken Eames, likes and dislikes, Mark Smith, media representation of Islam, Ministry of Justice, More in Common, mosques, National Opinion Polls, National Secular Society, Palgrave Macmillan, Policy Institute King’s College London, Preet Kaur Gill MP, public bodies, Public Body Ethnicity Data, Religions journal, religious celebration of Christmas, religious festivals, religious occasion, religious prejudice, religious profession, secularization, Sikhs, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Tim Grass, universities, Verian, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Record Society, YouGov | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, November 2024

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 110, November 2024 features nine short articles on fourteen new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 110 November 2024

OPINION POLLS

Crisis in the Church of England: resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury
Assisted dying Bill: polling of British public by Focaldata and More in Common
Belief in an afterlife, a nation divided into thirds: More in Common poll
Ipsos Veracity Index, 2024: trust in professions and groups to tell the truth

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Participation of ethnic minorities in Church of England ministry and leadership
Ethnic diaspora congregations in Scotland: Brendan Research report
Provision of religious education in primary schools in England and Wales
Intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe

PEOPLE NEWS

Profile of Fiona Tweedie, church statistician

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Posted in Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, People news, Religion and Education, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Action for Churches Together in Scotland, afterlife, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice, assisted dying, Brendan Research, Care Not Killing, Christianophobia, Christians, Church of England, Church Times, diaspora congregations, disestablishment, ethnic minorities, Fiona Tweedie, focaldata, hate crimes, importance of religion, Ipsos, Ipsos Veracity Index, John Smyth, Justin Welby, Keith Makin, Kim Leadbeater, legislation, Liam Jerrold Fraser, More in Common, National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe, Opinium Research, Paul Miller, personal religious beliefs, politics, primary schools, Religious Affiliation, religious education, religious leaders, religious prejudice, Scotland, Scottish Church Leaders’ Forum, Sheila Akomiah-Conteh, Terminally Ill Adults End of Life Bill, The Observer, trust in clergy and priests, truthfulness, YouGov | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, October 2024

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 109, October 2024 features fourteen short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 109 October 2024

OPINION POLLS

Reform of the House of Lords: should Church of England bishops keep their seats?
Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: sympathies with Israel and Palestinians
Observance of, and attitudes to, Halloween in Britain

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Economic value of church provided health and wellbeing activities
Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: British Jewish views
Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: JPR analysis of anti-Semitism post-7 October
Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents
Core Jewish population of Great Britain

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religious and other hate crimes, 2023–24

ACADEMIC STUDIES

English and Welsh Catholic attitudes to child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
Political, social, economic, and religious perspectives of ethnic minority Britons
Longitudinal study of churchgoing in Edinburgh and Leith
Religion in English northern industrial towns during the 1950s
Paganism in numbers

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2024

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Economics, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious Census, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Allan Little, Angela Puca, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, Billingham, Bolton, Bonfire Night, Centre for Catholic Studies, child sexual abuse, church attendance, Church of England bishops, Clive Field, Community Security Trust, divisions between different religions, Durham University, economic value of churches, Edinburgh and Leith, Edinburgh University Press, Equinox Publishing, ethnic minorities, focaldata, Gaza, Gregory Ryan, Halloween, Hamas, hate crimes, health and wellbeing, Hezbollah, Historical Research, Home Office, House of Lords, identity, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Islamist terrorism, Islamophobia, Islamophobic incidents, Israel, Israel-Palestine conflict, Jasmine Kazantzis, Jewish Current Affairs Survey, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, King's College London, Lebanon, Marcus Pound, Middle East, More in Common, Muslims, National Churches Trust, National Health Service, northern industrial towns, Pagans, Palestinians, police, politics, radical Islamist extremist incidents, Rawmarsh, religious hate crimes, religious prejudice, rites of passage, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, safe place, Savanta, Scotland, Scottish Church History, Scunthorpe, secularization, Sergio della Pergola, Social Capital, State of Life, Suzanne Owen, sympathy, Tell MAMA, UK in a Changing Europe, Vivianne Crowley, Will Watt, YouGov | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, September 2024

Posted on September 30, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 108, September 2024 features eight short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 108 September 2024

OPINION POLLS

Importance of being Christian in order to be ‘truly British’: NatCen findings
UK general election, 2024: religion and voting behaviour––YouGov polling
Marriage in church: who should walk the bride down the aisle?
Round-up of latest YouGov online trackers on religion

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Church of England cathedral statistics, 2023
Three recent Institute for Jewish Policy Research reports
Economic contribution of British Muslims

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religion of civil servants, 2022–24

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Economics, Religion and Education, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged Alex Scholes, Anti-Semitism, belief in god or gods, Benjamin Netanyahu, brain drain, British Social Attitudes Survey, Cabinet Office, Carli Lessof, choice of schools, Church of England cathedrals, civil servants, David Graham, economic contribution, Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, emigration, Equi, general election, heterosexual couples, importance of being Christian, importance of teaching Religious Studies in secondary school, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, International Social Survey Programme, Israel, Jewish New Year, Jews, John Curtice, marriages in church, Mohammed Sinan Siyech, Muslims, religion as negative influence on the world, religious education, religious profession, Rosh Hashana, Roy Shinar Cohen, Savanta, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, Sofiah Laila Shah, Stuart Fox, Sunday shop opening hours, Sunday trading, truly British, University of Exeter, Voting Behaviour, walking the bride down the aisle, Yom Kippur, YouGov | 2 Comments

Counting Religion in Britain, August 2024

Posted on September 1, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 107, August 2024 features twelve short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 107 August 2024

OPINION POLLS

Pew Research Center polling updates on religion
Church closure poll: Whitestone Insight for National Churches Trust
UK general election, 2024: how faith communities actually voted
Religion as a source of the current conflict in the Middle East: new YouGov poll
Public concerns about religious extremism in the UK: Ipsos and YouGov polling
Is the National Health Service treated like a ‘national religion’ in Britain?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Public examinations in Religious Studies
UK general election, 2024: final briefing from Theos, on religion and climate change
JPR report on UK Jewish observance of Shabbat
Community Security Trust report on anti-Semitic incidents, January–June 2024
Foreign-born Jews resident in the UK: Pew Research Center stands corrected

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Some picks from recent Taylor and Francis academic journals

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, anti-Semitic incidents, British Election Study Internet Panel, cathedral studies, church attendance, church closures, church decline, climate change, Community Security Trust, daily prayer, Daniel Staetsky, David Graham, environment, examinations, general election, George Lapshynov, importance of religion in personal life, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, international migrants, Ipsos, Islamic extremists, James Butler, Jewish News, Jews, Joint Council for Qualifications, Jonathan Evans, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Langer Research Associates, Leslie Francis, Liverpool Cathedral, Lord Ashcroft Polls, Lydia Reid, Manolo Corichi, Maria Smerkovich, Methodist Church, Middle East, National Churches Trust, National Health Service, National Jewish Identity Survey, national religion, NHS, Paul Bickley, Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Pew Research Center, Practical Theology, religion as source of conflict, religious extremism, religious qualities of national leaders, religious studies, science and religion, Shabbat, Stephanie Kramer, Stephen Parker, Taylor and Francis, Theos, Whitestone Insight, William Miner, Yinxuan Huang, YouGov, Yunping Tong | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, July 2024

Posted on July 20, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 106, July 2024 features ten short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 106 July 2024

OPINION POLLS

Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: where do British public sympathies lie?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Charitable giving by UK Christians: Stewardship’s Generosity Report, 2024
Male and female ministry in the Church of England
Scottish Episcopal Church annual report and accounts, 2023
Methodist Church statistics for mission, October 2023: preliminary data
Presbyterian Church of Wales statistics
UK general election, 2024: a clue to the religion of parliamentarians?

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

UK armed forces biannual diversity statistics, April 2024

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Revisiting English urban religion in the 1950s: three northern case studies
Church of England ministry in south-west England

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged 1950s, Andrew Village, armed forces, Billingham, Bolton, charitable giving, Christians, church attendance, church membership, Church of England, Clive Field, Diocese of Exeter, Diocese of Truro, diversity, Felicity Cooke, General Synod, Hamas, Historical Research, Humanists UK, Israel, Members of Parliament, Methodist Church of Great Britain, ministry, Ministry of Defence, Palestinians, Presbyterian Church of Wales, Rawmarsh, religious profession, rites of passage, Rural Theology, Scottish Episcopal Church, Scunthorpe, secularization, Stewardship, swearing-in, tithing, urban religion, Whitestone Insight, women’s ministry, YouGov | Leave a comment

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