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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Historical Statistics of Welsh Religion
British Religion in Numbers covers historical as well as contemporary data, so from time to time our news section will feature sources which are mainly of historical interest. One such is Digest of Welsh Historical Statistics, 1700-1974: Religion, which has … Continue reading
Muslim Voices
The Department for Communities and Local Government has recently published two reports which illuminate, numerically, the attitudes of British Muslims. The first is Helen Connolly, Attitudes, Values and Perceptions: Muslims and the General Population in 2007-08. This utilizes evidence from the … Continue reading
Digital Domesday Book
The National Archives issued the following press release on 22 March 2010. Obviously, it is too soon to say how valuable a resource this will be for those of us interested in British religion in numbers. THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO … Continue reading
Posted in Official data
Tagged Datasets, Digital Domesday Book, The National Archives
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Lutheran Membership
The Lutheran World Federation has recently released statistics of Lutheran membership in 2009. You will find them at: http://www.lutheranworld.org/LWF_Documents/LWF-Statistics-2009.pdf The global Lutheran community numbered 73,758,000 in 2009, compared with 71,974,000 in 2008, an increase of 2.5 per cent. Of this … Continue reading
Scottish Jewry in Decline
The current issue (19 March 2010, pp. 4-5) of the Jewish Chronicle includes a two-page feature by its political editor, Martin Bright, on the decline of the Scottish Jewish community, from 18,000 in the 1950s to 10,000 today. The overwhelming … Continue reading
Christians and the Irreligious Compared
One of the interesting by-products of the ICM Research poll of 10-11 March 2010 on religion in public life is the insight which it provides into some of the differences between professing Christians and those of no religion (the sub-samples … Continue reading
Religion in Public Life – Another Poll
You can really tell that a general election is in the offing, and possibly even that Britain is emerging from recession. Certainly, there seems a greater willingness these days for lobbyists to afford the expense of testing public opinion on … Continue reading
Jewish Schools in Redbridge
The current issue (12 March 2010) of the Jewish Chronicle includes an article by Simon Rocker on the results of a survey of parents of Jewish pupils attending the three Jewish schools (two primary, one high) in the London borough … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged Admissions policies, Faith schools, Jewish Leadership Council, Jewish schools, Redbridge
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Cyber Warfare Breaks Out Over the Papal Visit to Britain
As anticipated in our post of 26 February on ‘What do we think of the Pope?’, the planned papal visit to Great Britain in September is already causing controversy. The internet has become one of the battlegrounds for the expression … Continue reading
Posted in Religion in public debate
Tagged Benedict XVI, National Secular Society, online petitions, OutRage, papal visit, Pope
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