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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Daybreak Surveys Religion
Daybreak is the new breakfast television programme for the ITV network, anchored by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley and launched on 6 September. It has made an early entry into surveying public opinion by commissioning YouGov to run a poll on … Continue reading
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Tagged attendance at religious services, child abuse, Christianity, church weddings, Citizenship Survey, Daybreak, Faith schools, inter-faith marriage, ITV, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Religious Affiliation, religious leaders, respect, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse, YouGov
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Superstition
The British continue to be a pretty superstitious bunch, according to research published by 72point (the news, public relations and survey specialists) on 16 September. No fewer than 14 million adults admit to regularly carrying out everyday tasks they believe … Continue reading
Church attendance in England
The debate over the Christian Research data last week, together with coverage of the papal visit, led me to look at church attendance data from the 2005 English Church Census. I wanted to look again to see which areas of England had higher rates of church attendance, and specifically which areas looked more Catholic.
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Citizenship Survey, 2008-09 – Religion
On 14 September the Department for Communities and Local Government published online 2008-09 Citizenship Survey: Race, Religion and Equalities Topic Report by Chris Ferguson and David Hussey. It comprises a PDF document of 113 pages plus 105 statistical tables in … Continue reading
Populus on the Papal Visit
The opinion pollsters continue to pick up business from the now imminent papal visit to Scotland and England. Following the ComRes/BBC and YouGov/ITV surveys carried out among Catholics, reported by BRIN on Sunday and Monday, today brings a study of … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, child abuse, contraception, force for good, force for ill, gay adoption, homosexuality, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Populus, Roman Catholic Church, Ruth Gledhill, Sam Coates, sexual abuse, The Times, tolerance, understanding, women priests
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Britons Respond to Pastor Jones
The ninth anniversary of 9/11 was somewhat overshadowed by the crisis precipitated by Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville (Florida), who planned to mark the occasion by an ‘International burn a Koran’ day but, in … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, cartoons, freedom of expression, Islamophobia, Koran, Prophet Muhammad, Qur'an, racial hatred, Sunday Times, Terry Jones, United States Government, YouGov
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At Odds with the Church? Roman Catholic Opinion II
As if the organizers of this week’s papal visit did not already have enough to worry about! More than three-quarters of the population apparently have no interest in the visit and oppose the state part-funding it out of taxpayers’ money, according … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, birth control, celibacy, contraception, homosexuality, ITV, Marie Stopes International, Michael Hornsby-Smith, priests, Roman Catholics, Tonight, YouGov
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Roman Catholic Opinion
The recent spate of surveys triggered by the forthcoming papal visit continues with the publication this morning of a ComRes poll of a random sample of 500 UK Catholics conducted for the BBC between 6 and 9 September. Interviews were … Continue reading
Christian Research and Churchgoing
Two articles in yesterday’s broadsheet press gave somewhat conflicting assessments of the state of religion in contemporary Britain, in the lead-in to the papal visit to Britain, which starts next Thursday. Writing in The Guardian, Julian Glover portrayed ‘a nation … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in the Press
Tagged Baptist Union, Benita Hewitt, British Social Attitudes Survey, Christian Research, church attendance, Church Mouse, Church of England, churchgoing, Daily Telegraph, David Voas, Julian Glover, Martin Beckford, Methodist Church, Peter Brierley, Roman Catholic Church, secularization, The Guardian
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Holocaust Education
Policy-makers and older generations of Britons sometimes get worried that the Holocaust, and the events of the Second World War more generally, are fading from the public memory. Last year, for instance, there was extensive media coverage of a study … Continue reading