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Counting Religion in Britain, June 2025

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 117, June 2025 features sixteen short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text (with URLs for sources, where available) can be downloaded from the following link No 117 June 2025

OPINION POLLS

Thy Kingdom Come: Savanta poll on the Lord’s Prayer, for the Church of England
Ipsos Populism Report: importance of being a Christian for being truly British
Public attitudes to the legal recognition of humanist marriages in England and Wales
Belief in ghosts and spirits: More in Common poll
Public attitudes to Israel: two recent multinational surveys

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Demographic profile of the Christian population of England from the 2021 census
Finding Jesus: Evangelical Alliance research report
Farewell to the Church Army Research Unit
Scottish Episcopal Church annual report and statistics for 2024

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Census-based Statistics, UK, 2021: religion and other attributes
UK armed forces biannual diversity statistics, April 2025
Scottish Government workforce diversity and inclusion statistics, 2024

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Longitudinal study of churchgoing in York
Religiosity of young adults in Europe
Critique by David Voas of The Quiet Revival, Bible Society’s report on rising churchgoing

PEOPLE NEWS

Retirement of Clive Field: last issue of Counting Religion in Britain

Please note:

Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2025.

This will be the last issue of Counting Religion in Britain in its current form.

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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2025

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 115, April 2025 features ten short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text (with URLs for sources, where available) can be downloaded from the following link No 115 April 2025

OPINION POLLS

Papal business: remembering Franciscus
Christianity, Church, and Bible enjoying ‘quiet revival’, according to Bible Society
Celebrating Easter in the UK in 2025: More in Common and YouGov polls
Claimed volunteering for religious and faith groups during the past year
UK Muslim perceptions and experiences of Islamophobia: Survation poll
Muslim World League poll conducted in Britain – has anybody seen it?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Fasting among regular churchgoers: Green Christian survey
UK undergraduates and the Bible
British Muslims in Numbers: latest update from the Muslim Council of Britain

ACADEMIC STUDY

Churchgoing in Edwardian Wales and Scotland

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2023

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 97, October 2023 features eleven short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 97 October 2023

OPINION POLLS

Global poll: faith and wellbeing―Gallup/Radiant Foundation research
Global poll: trustworthiness of clergy/priests and other professions
Israel-Hamas conflict: perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Unite investigation into the wellbeing of faith workers
Chinese Christianity in Britain: Bible Society report
Israel-Hamas conflict: Institute for Jewish Policy Research briefings
Israel-Hamas conflict: sudden and steep rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the UK
Israel-Hamas conflict: Islamophobic incidents in the UK
Israel-Hamas conflict: impact on Muslim voting intentions in the UK

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Police-recorded hate crimes in England and Wales, 2022–23

NEW DATASET

Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2022

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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2023

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 91, April 2023 features 10 articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 91 April 2023

OPINION POLLS

Coronation blues: can King Charles III still enthuse his people about his coronation?
Mourning Queen Elizabeth II: Bible Society report derived from YouGov polling
Necessity to believe in God to be moral and have good values? Most don’t think so

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England attendance in October 2022
Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England cathedral statistics, 2022
Death and dying in the UK: new report from Theos and Susanna Wesley Foundation

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Census, 2021, England and Wales: new reports and data
Government engagement with faith: publication of The Bloom Review

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Three recent open access publications

NEW DATASET

UK Data Service, SN 9072: British Social Attitudes Survey, 2021

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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2023

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 88, January 2023 features 35 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 88 January 2023

OPINION POLLS

After the census results: Christianity in Britain according to Opinium Research
YouGov’s aspects of Christmas poll―was there still room for Jesus Christ?
YouGov poll on self-reported observance of childhood Christmas traditions
Church buildings: Savanta ComRes poll for the National Churches Trust
Religious agencies and cost of living crisis: Savanta ComRes poll for Church of England
Christian mission: Savanta ComRes poll for Operation Mobilisation
Religion and worldviews: Savanta ComRes poll for Culham St Gabriel’s Trust
Same-sex marriage and the Church of England: YouGov poll of public attitudes
Attitudes to Jews and Muslims: Savanta ComRes poll for Voice4Change
Science and religion: more findings from the Theos/Faraday Institute research project
Changing beliefs in God across the generations: Ipsos MORI survey
YouGov poll on self-reported frequency of reading horoscopes
YouGov poll on prevalence of superstitious beliefs

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Christmas church services in 2022: Bible Society survey for Ecclesiastical
Church of England’s state of readiness to welcome the public at Christmas
Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2021
Church of England Carbon Emissions Report, 2021
United Reformed Church statistics in its 2023 Yearbook
Catholic Education Service’s annual census of Catholic schools and colleges
British Sikh Report, 2022
Hindus and Christians in the workforce: Pearn Kandola reports

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

UK armed forces biannual diversity statistics, October 2022
Diversity and inclusion of Scottish Government workforce, 2021: religion
Police-recorded hate crime in Scotland during 2020–21 and 2021–22
Religious census of England and Wales, 2021 (1): expert reactions to the topline data
Religious census of England and Wales, 2021 (2): age and sex breaks

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Religion and occupational structure in early nineteenth-century Wales
Places of worship in Great Britain and Ireland, c.1829–c.1929
Churchgoing in Cheltenham in 1882
Mass Observation, religion, and the Second World War
British Methodism’s engagement with sociology during the long 1960s
Recent changes in British Methodism as reflected in two surveys of presbyters
Coronavirus chronicles: wellbeing of Anglican clergy and laity during third lockdown
Microsimulation of ‘fuzzy fidelity’: cohort effect explanation of secularization
Spirituality in northern Europe: International Social Survey Program data

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2022

Posted on December 10, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 87, December 2022 is a special 14-page edition devoted to the first release of data from the religion question in the 2021 Census of Population in England and Wales.

This issue of BRIN’s monthly bulletin consists of tables, commentary, and a selection of media reporting of the results of the religious census. A copy of the full text can be downloaded from this link No 87 December 2022

Any other items of religious statistical news from December will be held over to the January 2023 edition of Counting Religion in Britain.

At the time of writing, the most significant new resource, apart from the census, is the Church of England’s Statistics for Mission, 2021, which can be found at: https://www.churchofengland.org/system/files/private%3A//2022-12///2021StatisticsForMission.pdf

The BRIN team wish all our users a peaceful and restful festive break. We look forward to ‘seeing’ you again in 2023.

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2021

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 75, December 2021 features 17 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link: No 75 December 2021

OPINION POLLS

Depicting the ethnicity of Jesus Christ: what is acceptable?
Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, 2021: trust in clergy and priests to tell the truth slightly up
Trust in the Church/organized religion and other institutions, as measured by YouGov
Non-stun slaughter of animals for religious reasons: the debate continues
Extra-terrestrials, Ipsos MORI, and the public

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Evangelical Alliance’s latest survey on Changing Church
Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2020
Coronavirus chronicles: Christmas special events in churches, 2020 and 2021
Jewish children in Jewish schools: Institute for Jewish Policy Research’s latest report
Estimating the level of anti-Semitism on Twitter in the UK
Jewish perceptions of Labour Party membership: still more to do?
Recent reports from the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Population estimates by religion, England and Wales, 2019
Coronavirus chronicles: vaccination rates among the over-50s by religion

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Counting religion in Britain, 1970–2020: new analysis and compendium of data tables
Other academic outputs: two collections of essays and three journal articles

PEOPLE NEWS

Gordon Heald (1941–2021)

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Counting Religion in Britain, February 2021

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 65, February 2021 features 30 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link: No 65 February 2021

OPINION POLLS

Coronavirus chronicles: are things really looking up that much for the Churches?
Coronavirus chronicles: Christian Aid poll on Covid-19 vaccines in developing nations
Coronavirus chronicles: returning to places of worship after lockdown
Coronavirus chronicles: Survation on lockdown of Scottish places of worship
Coronavirus chronicles: religious correlates of attitudes to abortion in England
Perceived importance of religion for getting ahead in life: KCL inequality poll
The Together Initiative’s Our Chance to Reconnect report: religion questions
ICM/Henry Jackson Society poll of UK adults and Black Britons: religion comparisons
Savanta ComRes report on Church Leaders Panel for 2020
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: reaching for the Bible in a time of pandemic
Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England discussion paper on its prospects
Coronavirus chronicles: the attitudes of churchgoing laity in the Church of England
Coronavirus chronicles: survey of the views of Christian event organizers
Coronavirus chronicles: Jewish mortality from Covid-19
Community Security Trust’s anti-Semitic incidents report for 2020
Coronavirus chronicles: the Muslim experience of Covid-19
Attitudes of young British Christians towards climate change
Church of England’s carbon footprint: first year’s data from energy tool

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

On your marks! The decennial population census of England and Wales is on 21 March
Scottish Surveys Core Questions: 2019 results released

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: University of York’s ‘Covid-19, Churches, and Communities’
Coronavirus chronicles: launch of Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS)
Coronavirus chronicles: impact of Covid-19 on London’s Strictly Orthodox Jews
Renewal in the Baptist Union of Great Britain during the 1990s
Theology and Religious Studies Provision in UK Higher Education (2019): A response
Three recent articles in academic religion journals

NEW DATASETS

UK Data Service, SN 8767: Community Life Survey, 2019–2020
UK Data Service, SN 8772: British Social Attitudes Survey, 2019

PEOPLE NEWS

Katie Harrison appointed Archbishop of Canterbury’s public affairs adviser

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2019

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 50, November 2019 features 23 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link: No 50 November 2019

OPINION POLLS

Attitudes to Christianity, faith, and Bible: Lumino website launched by Bible Society
Attitudes to right and wrong: Savanta ComRes poll on morality for the BBC
ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism, 2019 update
Antisemitism Barometer, 2019 from the Campaign against Antisemitism
Muslim women and removal of the face veil
Trust in clergy and other professions: Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, 2019

OPINION POLLS–2019 GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN

December 2019 general election: religion and voting intention
December 2019 general election: anti-Semitism and Islamophobia [9 polls]

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Does the 2030 Future Have a Church? New e-book from Peter Brierley
Church of England cathedral statistics, 2018
Statistics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
British Muslims and the December 2019 general election

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Crimes at churches and religious buildings, 2017–19: police data under FOI requests
Diversity reporting by Government departments and agencies

ACADEMIC STUDY

Periodizing secularization in modern British history

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2019

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 49, October 2019 features 21 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link: No 49 October 2019

OPINION POLLS

Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2019: religion questions
Religious discrimination in the European Union: a Eurobarometer restudy
One in nine Britons claim to have communicated with somebody beyond the grave
Claimed use of Ouija boards
How children cope with the death of people and pets: Legal and General research
Religious attitudes towards adoption: ComRes poll for Home for Good
Focus of Remembrance Sunday: new polling by Populus
Public knowledge of complaints of anti-Semitism against members of the Labour Party
Jewish political engagement (and disengagement): Survation poll
Ethnic minorities in Scotland and their experiences of, and attitudes to, discrimination
Perceived threat posed by Islamic extremist and other terror groups
Changing British moral attitudes: Ipsos MORI polling from 1989 and 2019 compared

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Charitable and church giving by Christian television viewers: Christian Opinion Panel
Competitive car insurance premiums for the clergy: quotezone.co.uk survey
Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2018
Church of England digital report, 2019
Fresh Expressions of Church in the Anglican Diocese of Leicester
‘The God who speaks’: Roman Catholics and scripture – a new initiative

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religious hate crime in England and Wales recorded by the police, 2018/19
Religious affiliation of prisoners in England and Wales, 30 September 2019

NEW DATASET

First release of European Social Survey, Round 9, 2018

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