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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Citizenship Survey, 2009-10 – First Results
Detailed reporting from the 2008-09 Citizenship Survey may not yet be complete (in particular, the topic report on race, religion and equalities is still outstanding), but initial results from all four quarters of the 2009-10 survey were released by the … Continue reading
Turbulent Times
BRIN readers keen to understand the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990 will find helpful a book which was published by Continuum on 22 July. Entitled Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today, it … Continue reading
Professor Alan Gilbert
It is with great sadness that British Religion in Numbers records the death of Professor Alan David Gilbert in hospital in Manchester on 27 July, having suffered from a serious illness for the last few months. He was just 65 … Continue reading
Thought for the Day
Thought for the Day is the ‘pause’ in BBC Radio 4’s prime-time flagship morning news and current affairs programme Today when invited guests reflect on a topical issue from a religious standpoint. The feature is forty years old this year. … Continue reading
Posted in Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged BBC, Ekklesia, Lizzie Clifford, Radio 4, Thought for the Day, Today
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Vampires in Twilight
Vampires have been in the news a fair bit recently, mainly thanks to the release on 9 July in the UK of Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third motion picture adapted from the Twilight series of vampire-based fantasy romance novels by … Continue reading
Child Abuse and the Catholic Church
There have already been a couple of BRIN news posts reporting British public attitudes to the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests and alleged cover-ups thereof. ‘Pope Benedict on the Back Foot’ (20 April) featured a YouGov poll … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged child abuse, children, Populus, priests, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse, The Times
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Getting Data on Scientology
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
Statistics of Catholic Religious Life
The National Office for Vocation of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has recently published the executive report and appendices for a study of Religious Life in England and Wales undertaken on behalf of the Compass Project, which … Continue reading
Battle of the Burka
As might have been expected, the recent near-unanimous vote by the lower house of the French Parliament in favour of a ban on the wearing of full-face veils in public has prompted a further test of popular opinion on the … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged Burka, Channel 5 News, face-veils, Islamophobia, Muslims, religious dress, women, YouGov
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Why Christians Give
Most church leaders dislike talking about the need to give money, according to a newly-published survey on Christian giving. They tend to sweep financial issues under the carpet and fail to preach inspiring sermons on the subject of generosity. As … Continue reading