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Category Archives: Religion in the Press
Counting Religion in Britain, April 2017
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 19, April 2017 features 27 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 19 April 2017 OPINION POLLS Lenten abstinence and Easter activities Just under one-fifth … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news
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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 11, August 2016 features 25 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 11 August 2016 OPINION POLLS Weddings in church Only 11% of Britons now … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religion Online, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Semitism, British government, British Social Attitudes Survey, British Veterinary Association, Carl Miller, church attendance, church growth, church leaders, Church of England, Church Times, church weddings, Community Security Trust, Demos, DIY, Dominic Abrams, economic migrants, employment, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Ephraim Borowski, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Eurotrack, Faith schools, Fiona Frank, Fiona Tweedie, Food Standards Agency, football, GCE A Levels, GCSE O Levels, ground troops, Hannah Swift, House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee, Immigration, importance of religion, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos-MORI, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Jack Dale, Jeremy Morris, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Labour Movement, Jews, Joint Council for Qualifications, Jonathan Boyd, Josh Smith, Journal of Religion in Europe, Labour Party, Leah Granat, Linda Woodhead, Lynsey Mahmood, military force, Muslims, NatCen Social Research, Owen Smith, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Premier, public examinations, Religious Affiliation, religious conversion, Religious discrimination, religious prejudice, religious studies, rites of passage, ritual slaughter of animals, SAS, SchoolDash, Scotland, Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, sectarianism, secularization, social action, sociology, solemnization of marriages, stunning, Sunday Telegraph, Survation, Syria, terrorism, The Times, tweets, Twitter, World Jewish Relief, YouGov, Youth Social Action Survey
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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 6, March 2016 features 23 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 6 March 2016 OPINION POLLS Hope Not Hate Hope Not Hate, founded … Continue reading
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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2015
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 2, November 2015 features no fewer than 41 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 2 November 2015 OPINION POLLS – GENERAL Religious affiliation ORB … Continue reading
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Mid-Year Round-Up
Immigration and the religious landscape Were it not for immigration, the speed of secularization in England and Wales might have been even faster. That is one gloss that could be put on a report from the Office for National … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Semitism, BBC, census of population, Christianity, Church of England, Clive Field, Damian Thompson, Diocese of London, finance, home missions, Immigration, Islam, Islamic State, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Office for National Statistics, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Ramadan, Religious Affiliation, Sarah Flew, supermarkets, Survation, The Spectator, TNS
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Atheism and Other News
Atheism Two-fifths (42%) of Britons now declare that they have no religion, and the plurality (45%) of these regard themselves as atheists, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by and published in The Times on 12 February 2015, for … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news
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ComRes on Religion and Other News
ComRes on religion Exactly half the whole population (and 71% of those professing no religion) now denies that religion is a force for good in the world, according to a ComRes poll for ITV News on 16-18 January 2015, … Continue reading
Posted in Measuring religion, People news, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, Survey news
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