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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Religion and Morality in the 1950s and 1960s
We reported in the summer on the ongoing scholarly debate about ‘When was secularization?’ (in Britain) – see http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=347. In particular, we noted the arguments of Professor Callum Brown for regarding the 1960s as the major tipping-point on the trajectory … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies
Tagged 1950s, 1960s, morality, Nigel Yates, sex, sexual revolution
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Youtube and Radical Muslim Clerics
Last week Roshonara Choudhry, a 21-year-old British Muslim woman, was convicted at the Old Bailey of the attempted murder, on 14 May, of Stephen Timms, Labour Member of Parliament for East Ham, in retaliation for his endorsement of the Iraq … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged Anwar al-Awlaki, Islam, radical Muslim clerics, radicalization, Roshonara Choudhry, Stephen Timms, Sunday Times, YouGov, Youtube
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Equality and Human Rights Commission – New Research
We recently highlighted the publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)’s first triennial review, and of its relevance for British religious statistics. See http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=656 We can now report that the EHRC has commissioned two new research papers, which, … Continue reading
Future of the Citizenship Survey
There have been several posts on the BRIN website this year highlighting key religion-related findings from various reports on the Department for Communities and Local Government’s Citizenship Survey of England and Wales. The Survey commenced in 2001 and currently runs … Continue reading
Religion of Prisoners
Government has regularly reported on the religious affiliation of prisoners in England and Wales, and time series for recent decades, until 2008, are already available on the BRIN website at: http://www.brin.ac.uk/figures/#Prisoners Data for 2009 were released during the summer in … Continue reading
Violent Extremism
One of the four strands in the previous Labour government’s CONTEST counter-terrorism strategy was focused on preventing extremism. It was especially concerned to stop the radicalization of young Muslims, following the London bombings in 2005. In an effort to improve … Continue reading
More Church of England Statistics
The Church of England issued two statistics-related press releases on 28 October. The first concerned parochial finance for 2008 and licensed ministers for 2009, complementing the parochial affiliation and attendance data which were made available in February. The financial statistics … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations
Tagged Bishops, Church of England, Church Statistics, clergy, expenditure, finance, income, ministry
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