Author Archives: Siobhan McAndrew

Getting Data on Scientology

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

Scientology appears to be in the news at the moment so it seems timely to offer some ideas on how to count Scientology in the UK. Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Other, Religion in the Press | Tagged Google News Archive, Google Trends, religious trends, Scientology, Trendtastic, Twitter | 1 Comment

Attitudes to new academy faith schools

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

The Academies Act 2010 is well underway, having received its Second Reading in the House of Commons on Monday 19 July, and with Committee days due this week. A number of private and state religious schools have indicated interest in becoming state-funded academies, among about 1500 schools overall so far.
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Posted in Religion in public debate | Tagged Academies, BHA, British Humanist Association, Creationism, Denominational Schools, education, Faith schools, ICM Research | Leave a comment

Religion and the Hidden Wealth of Nations

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

Halpern’s discussion of religion is in a chapter called ‘The Politics of Virtue’, concerned with good citizenship. Despite Britons being generally averse to seeing politicians parade their personal religiosity,

‘an everyday sense of moral values and a shared sense of what is acceptable behaviour, is key to making a society work – it is part of the ‘hidden wealth’ of a successful nation’.
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Posted in Religion in public debate | Tagged Belief in God, David Halpern, Religion, Religiosity, Secularisation, Social Capital, Ten Commandments, World Values Survey | Leave a comment

Religiosity and Party Choice

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

It’s interesting to read Justin Parkinson, Political Reporter at the BBC, on Christianity and the election.

It’s noteworthy that in the European elections of 2009, the Christian Party – established five years earlier – won 250,000 votes, or 1.6 per cent nationally. While this was not a significant result at the national level, it was nevertheless ahead of Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party. The party also polled 2.9 per cent in London. Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Other | Tagged 2010 Election, Christian Party, Conservative Party, Electoral Turnout, Labour Party, Liberal Democrat Party, Party Choice, Religiosity, Religious Affiliation | 1 Comment

Christian Smith on research into religion: repositioning scholarly journal articles

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

A summary of Christian Smith’s paper, ‘Five Proposals for Reforming (Especially Quantitative) Journal Article Publishing Practices in the Sociology of Religion toward Improving the Quality, Value, and Cumulativeness of Our Scholarship’. Continue reading →

Posted in Other | Tagged Causality, Christian Smith, Methodology, Missing Data, Response Rate, Scholarly publishing, Statistical Significance | Leave a comment

Taking Part in England

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

The Taking Part in England survey is a large survey of cultural and leisure participation in England, sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The first was fielded in July 2005 and it has been run annually since then. The current collection agency is BMRB Social Research, which operates the survey via face-to-face interview. Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Official data, Survey news | Tagged arts, BMRB Social Research, culture, DCMS, England, leisure, NETQuest, Religion, religious participation, Religious Practice, sports, Taking Part survey | 3 Comments

The British Social Attitudes Survey 2008 (part II)

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

Just to clarify, part II refers to this being our second post on the 2008 BSA, rather than the survey having two parts. The excellent news is that the dataset has been published online this week, and it’s fair to … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Survey news | Tagged Bioethical Attitudes, British Social Attitudes Survey, Civic Engagement, David Campbell, David Voas, Denmark, ESDS, Harvard, Intergenerational Transmission, Ireland, ISSP, Manchester, NatCen, National Identity, NORFACE, Northern Ireland, Notre Dame, Political Identity, Political Sociology, Relemerge, Religiosity, Religious Affiliation, Religious Identity, Robert Putnam, Social Capital, Templeton, The Netherlands, US | 1 Comment

The RELACHS Study

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

It’s been a little while since I made a post here, having spent some time fixing other parts of the site. But I’ll make a dip back into the BRIN blog by flagging up the RELACHS survey. RELACHS is not yet … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Other, Survey news | Tagged Bullying, Dress, Drug Use, East London, Epidemiology, Health, Longitudinal, Mental Health, Obesity, Panel Study, RELACHS, Religious Affiliation, Religious Practice, Sexual Risk Behaviours, Smoking, Teenage Pregnancy, young people | 1 Comment

Religious Census 1851 Online

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

For interested historians: the Census of Religious Worship of 1851 has been digitised and is available from two sources. First, there is the Online Historical Population Reports Website. The Report is indexed and can be viewed page-by-page, with each page … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Official data | Tagged 1851 Religious Census, Religious Data Online | 2 Comments

Launch of data.gov.uk

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, today launched a major government web portal drawing together official data sources. data.gov.uk is still in beta version, but already offers a massive array of public data – 2879 data sources and … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data | Tagged mashups, Official data, Open Government, Tim Berners-Lee, visualisation | Leave a comment

The census of population (2001, 2011, 2021) is the main statistical source for non-Christian and other faiths and groups. Jews…

Very interesting

Where are the statistics for other religious groups? In addition, analysis on the differences between 1st to 3rd generation migrant…

As stated in our report, the comment was made by Nick Spencer of the think tank Theos. You could contact…

It does not seem hypocritical, to me, to hold the opinion that people's relationship with God is a personal matter…

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Getting Data on Scientology

Attitudes to new academy faith schools

Religiosity and Party Choice

Christian Smith on research into religion: repositioning scholarly journal articles

The RELACHS Study

Religious Census 1851 Online

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