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Monthly Archives: April 2011
British Muslims and the Police
Taken as a whole, Muslims in England and Wales express higher levels of trust and confidence in the police than do the general population, notwithstanding the fact that they report crime and disorder impacts more negatively upon them than society … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged Association of Chief Police Officers, British Crime Survey, Cardiff University, Colin Roberts, community cohesion, crime, Helen Innes, Martin Innes, Muslims, police, policing, PREVENT, Universities' Police Science Institute
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Child Poverty and Deprivation among Jews
The common identification of Jews with wealth is partly disproved by a new publication from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. Written by Jonathan Boyd, Child Poverty and Deprivation in the British Jewish Community is available to download at: http://www.jpr.org.uk/downloads/JPR%20child%20poverty%20report_7.pdf … Continue reading
The Greying Church
The greater propensity of older people to religious belief and practice is a well-established sociological phenomenon. In particular, the disproportionate number of elderly worshippers in UK congregations has been documented in church attendance censuses undertaken by Christian Research and other … Continue reading
Group-Focused Enmity in Europe
Fresh light on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Britain is shed in a report published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin on 11 March 2011. Entitled Intolerance, Prejudice and Discrimination: A European Report, it is written by Andreas Zick, Beate Kupper and … Continue reading
Posted in Measuring religion, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged Alliance Publishing Trust, Andreas Hovermann, Andreas Zick, Anti-Semitism, Beate Kupper, Bielefeld Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, holocaust, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Jews, Muslims, Palestinians, prejudice, self-assessed religiosity, terrorism, TNS, women
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Self-Supporting Ministry
In 2009 3,100 or 27% of all the Church of England’s diocesan licensed ministers were in self-supporting ministry (SSM), sometimes described as non-stipendiary ministry. Hitherto, comparatively little has been known about these SSMs and how they are utilized by the … Continue reading
Marriages in England and Wales in 2009
The Office for National Statistics published a statistical bulletin on 30 March setting out the provisional figures for marriages which took place in England and Wales during 2009. Final data will not be available until the spring of 2012. The … Continue reading
Posted in Official data
Tagged marriages, Office for National Statistics, religious ceremonies
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Concerns for Christians
The indefatigable Peter Brierley of Brierley Consultancy has just brought out, under his ADBC Publishers imprint, a 24-page synthesis of statistics relating to 21 issues which are likely to be of concern to Christians. Entitled 21 Concerns for 21st Century … Continue reading
Libya and Radical Islam
Among the public’s many concerns about the current crisis in Libya is a fear that it may result in the country falling under the influence of radical Islam. That is one of the findings from a YouGov poll conducted online … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged al-Qaeda, Islam, Libya, Middle East, radicalism, Sunday Times, YouGov
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