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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Anti-Conservative Vote
Religion is the single most powerful predictor (among eight factors) of an individual’s likelihood to say that they would never vote Conservative, with 44% of those with no faith rejecting the possibility of supporting the Tories, compared with 35% of … Continue reading
Online Mission
Many UK Christians view the internet as a mission field, and are already exploiting its potential in that regard. This is according to an online poll of 703 of them conducted during February and March 2012 and published on 24 … Continue reading
Christian Fundamentalism
Although BRIN cannot possibly monitor all potentially relevant blogs, some of our users may be interested in the Leaving Fundamentalism: Examining Christian Fundamentalism in the UK blog which was launched by Jonny Scaramanga on 19 April 2012. Today’s post on … Continue reading
Posted in Religion in the Press
Tagged Christian fundamentalists, creationists, Jonny Scaramanga
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Children and Pornography
Today’s Daily Mail reports that the Government may be back-tracking, on civil liberties grounds, on its commitments to introduce tough measures to protect children from access to online pornography, which would entail explicit requirements to opt into adult content. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged children, Christianity, churches, ComRes, Cpanel, government, internet, ISPs, pornography, Premier Christian Media Trust, reading, sex, television, watershed
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Theresa May’s Bad Hair Day
Just over half (54%) of the British public think that Home Secretary Theresa May has badly handled the issue of the deportation to his native Jordan of Abu Qatada al-Filistini, the radical Muslim cleric given asylum in Britain in 1994 … Continue reading
Beliefs about God
The number of professed atheists in Britain increased, relatively modestly, by 8% between 1991 and 2008, as did the figure for those who had never believed in God. During the same period there was a 6% decline in people certain … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged atheism, God, International Social Survey Program, National Opinion Research Center, NORC, Tom Smith
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London Mayoral Elections
Just a week after the publication of the Demos report Faithful Citizens, which established linkages between people of faith and progressive politics, comes evidence that religious issues are creeping into the forthcoming and hotly-contested elections for London’s Mayor. This is … Continue reading
Faithful Citizens
‘Religious citizens in the UK are more likely to be civically engaged and politically active than their non-religious counterparts. They are also more likely to hold progressive political values on a number of important political and economic questions at the … Continue reading
Eastertide Anglican News
The Church of England issued two statistics-related press releases in the run-up to Easter, the first (on 3 April 2012) concerning the 2011 headline mission statistics for its cathedrals under the heading ‘Cathedral Attendance Statistics Enjoy over a Decade of … Continue reading
Holy Saturday Polls
Spending time with family and friends is the most important part of Easter for 43% of Britons, followed by having a break from work (18%) and only thirdly the festival’s religious meaning (17%), with the exchanging of Easter eggs trailing … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged assemblies, BBC, church attendance, Easter, Good Friday, Lord's Prayer, Newsround, prayer, religious festivals, religious symbols, schools, The Sun, Travelodge, work, YouGov
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