http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/2010/long-living-methodists/ News about BRIN.ac.uk, and religious data in general Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:19:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/2010/long-living-methodists/comment-page-1/#comment-1694 Tim Allison Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:12:07 +0000 http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=361#comment-1694 Nice to have my study quoted after such a long time. The study was originally designed to consider the difference in lifespan by social class controlling for occupation. Lifespan is considerably influenced by social background, so it is interesting to note that in the 19th century ministers from the Primitive Methodist Church tended to have fairly long lives, although not as long on average as their perhaps more middle class Wesleyan colleagues. Nice to have my study quoted after such a long time. The study was originally designed to consider the difference in lifespan by social class controlling for occupation. Lifespan is considerably influenced by social background, so it is interesting to note that in the 19th century ministers from the Primitive Methodist Church tended to have fairly long lives, although not as long on average as their perhaps more middle class Wesleyan colleagues.

]]> http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/2010/long-living-methodists/comment-page-1/#comment-706 Methodists live longer than the average Brit | connexions Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:41:29 +0000 http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=361#comment-706 [...] And this is not a new pattern. Clive Field’s unpublished Oxford DPhil thesis of 1974 revealed that, until the beginning of the twentieth century, the death rate per 1,000 among lay members of the various Methodist denominations in Britain was appreciably below the national level, especially in Wesleyan Methodism. Published studies by Kenneth Brown (‘A Social History of the Nonconformist Ministry in England and Wales, 1800-1930’) and Tim Allison (‘An Historical Cohort Study of Methodist Ministers Examining Lifespan and Socioeconomic Status’ - University of Manchester MSc thesis, 1995) demonstrate similar trends. More information about the research can be found at British Religion in Numbers. [...] [...] And this is not a new pattern. Clive Field’s unpublished Oxford DPhil thesis of 1974 revealed that, until the beginning of the twentieth century, the death rate per 1,000 among lay members of the various Methodist denominations in Britain was appreciably below the national level, especially in Wesleyan Methodism. Published studies by Kenneth Brown (‘A Social History of the Nonconformist Ministry in England and Wales, 1800-1930’) and Tim Allison (‘An Historical Cohort Study of Methodist Ministers Examining Lifespan and Socioeconomic Status’ – University of Manchester MSc thesis, 1995) demonstrate similar trends. More information about the research can be found at British Religion in Numbers. [...]

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