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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Falling Interest in Catholicism Online
Interest in Roman Catholicism appears to be falling worldwide according to a new analysis of Google searches published on 3 June on the Nineteen Sixty-Four research blog of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University … Continue reading
Religious Affiliation and Attitudes towards Immigrants in Britain
This latest post examines attitudes in Britain towards immigrants, looking at differences in view by religious affiliation. Scholars in the United States have recently found significant differences in attitudes towards immigration by religious affiliation. In order to examine whether similar relationships hold between religion and opinion towards immigrants in Britain, here I use data from the nationally-representative British Social Attitudes survey of 2009. Continue reading
Methodism’s Triennial Returns
‘Statistics do not provide a complete narrative about the health of the Church. Headline figures must be treated with caution and understood as only limited measures of Church activity. The use of figures in isolation from wider contextual information can … Continue reading
Turbulent Priest?
The nation is split down the middle about whether senior clergy should comment on political issues, according to a new survey. This follows the Archbishop of Canterbury’s guest-editorship of last week’s issue of the left-leaning New Statesman magazine, which provided … Continue reading
Immigrant Religiosity
First-generation immigrants to the UK are three times as likely as natives to claim to attend religious services at least weekly and to pray in private daily. They are also more religious than immigrants to most other European countries on … Continue reading
Telling the Story of the 2001 Religious Census
Much has been written about the results of the religion question in the 2001 census of population of Great Britain, but rather less is known about how that question came to be asked in the first place. This followed a four-year … Continue reading
Is the BBC Christianophobic?
‘The BBC “is ageist and anti-Christian”: that’s the verdict of the Corporation’s OWN survey’, ran the headline over an article by Paul Revoir in yesterday’s edition of the Daily Mail, although the paper’s reporter had to confess that ‘it is … Continue reading
Religion and Politics among Ethnic Minorities in Britain
The Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted at the last general election thanks to the generous support of the ESRC contains a plethora of questions on religious belonging and practices of the five largest ethnic minority groups in Britain. The EMBES team are currently working on a paper concerning how the religious involvement of minorities impact on political behaviour and attitudes. We are welcoming this chance to share with the BRIN audience some of our preliminary findings. Continue reading
Attitudes towards Different Religious Groups in Britain: Survey Data Sources
This post highlights some of the survey resources – available for general usage – which allow researchers to examine public views towards religious groups in Britain. The three surveys used are the European Values Study, the Pew Global Attitudes Project surveys, and the British Social Attitudes surveys.
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