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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Christian and Secular Youth Organisation Membership, 1951-2006
I have been browsing data tables from the seven editions of Religious Trends, compiled by Peter Brierley and published over 1997 to 2008. Some are highly interesting and I thought it worth attempting to publish them in datablog rather than static page form. Continue reading
Places of Worship in England and Wales, 1999-2009
We have spent a little time compiling data on registered places of worship in England and Wales from 1999-2009 and are making a note here on the data, and the caveats you need to bear in mind before interpreting them. The headline data suggest that ‘mainline’ established denominations are showing a reduction over time in numbers of places of worship, while other world religions, ‘other Christians’, and ‘other’ faith communities are exhibiting a gradual increase.
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Posted in Measuring religion, Official data, Uncategorized
Tagged Baptists, Brethren, Calvinistic Methodists, Congregationalists, General Register Office, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jewish, Mark Littler, Mehmood Naqshbandi, Methodists, Muslims in Britain, National Statistics, Register of Places of Worship, Roman Catholics, Salvation Army, Sikhs, Society of Friends, Unitarians, United Reformed Church
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Public perceptions of the religious dimensions of the Israel-Palestine conflict are illuminated in a six-nation ICM poll released on 13 March and undertaken on behalf of the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies (established in 2006), the Middle East Monitor (MEMO, … Continue reading
Census Question Under Fire
There are just six days to go before UK residents have to complete the household and individual questionnaire for the decennial population census. But humanists are still simultaneously maintaining their attack on the voluntary question on religion while paradoxically encouraging … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, News from religious organisations, Official data, Survey news
Tagged British Humanist Association, Census, church attendance, Humanist Society of Scotland, humanists, Jesus Christ, Office for National Statistics, Religious Affiliation, Scotland, self-assessed religiosity, YouGov
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Home Shrines
The existence of religious shrines in British domestic households is largely uncharted territory, certainly in any statistical sense, so it is good to be able to draw BRIN readers’ attention to some initial data on the topic from the current … Continue reading
Receptions into Roman Catholicism
Adult receptions into the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales will be significantly up on 2010, to judge by attendances at last weekend’s Rite of Election and tabulated in a press release from the Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference posted … Continue reading
Catholics in Scottish Prisons
Roman Catholics continue to be overrepresented in Scotland’s prison population, but the situation appears to be improving slowly. Catholics accounted for 28% of Scottish prisoners in 2001, 24% in 2006 and 23% in 2008-09, whereas they constituted 16% of all … Continue reading
Religion, Youth and Sexuality
‘Sex and religion are generally considered uncomfortable bedfellows.’ So begins a new 24-page report which offers fascinating insights into the diversity of interactions between religion and sexuality among the young. Authored by Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip (University of Nottingham), Michael Keenan … Continue reading
Poppy-Burning
82% of the public support the prosecution of Emdadur Choudhury, the Muslims against Crusades (MAC) protestor who was this week convicted at Woolwich Crown Court of a public order offence for his ‘calculated and deliberate’ insult to Britain’s war dead … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged Emdadur Choudhury, Muslims against Crusades, poppies, protests, Remembrance Day, YouGov
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