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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2025

Posted on June 1, 2025 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 116, May 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 116 May 2025

OPINION POLLS

Public reaction to the transition from Pope Francis to Pope Leo XIV
Spirits, life after death et al.: more data from Pew Global Attitudes Survey, 2024
Assisted dying: Hyphen/Savanta poll on public attitudes by religion

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Preliminary Church of England attendance statistics, 2024
Church of Scotland congregational statistics, 2024
Changing Church 2025: state of the UK Evangelical Church five years after Covid-19

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Hate crimes recorded by the police in Scotland, 2023–24

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Religion in Scotland’s census of population, 2022: analysis of the ‘nones’
Assisted dying: attitudes among clergy and laity in the Church of England
Long awaited collection of essays on research methods in religion

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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2025

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 112, January 2025 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 112 January 2025

OPINION POLLS

Is ‘God’ making a comeback among the young? OnePoll survey seems to suggest so
The world of Gen Z as illuminated by Channel 4 and Craft
Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2024 wave: further releases
Latest (2024) wave of the Anti-Defamation League Global 100 Index of Antisemitism
Memorialization of the Holocaust: Claims Conference multinational survey
Memorialization of the Holocaust: Ipsos national survey
Likely causes of human extinction: YouGov restudy

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

United Reformed Church statistics, 2025
Is there a Jewish ‘exodus’ from the UK? Not according to JPR

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Methodist historical statistics, eighteenth century to the present
Roman Catholic historical statistics: England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland

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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2024

Posted on May 2, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 103, April 2024 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 103 April 2024

OPINION POLLS

Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: J. L. Partners opinion poll of Muslims and public
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: where do British public sympathies lie?
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: concerns about religious extremism
Fixing the date for Easter: YouGov poll of preferences among the British public
Attitudes to assisted dying in Scotland: Opinium Research poll for Dignity in Dying
Would you consider having your fortune told?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Launch of ‘The Church-24 Survey’ by York St John University
Two new outputs from the National Jewish Identity Survey, 2022
British Muslim charitable giving: insights from Blue State

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Round-up of three recent academic publications

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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2023

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 92, May 2023 features 16 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 92 May 2023

OPINION POLLS―CORONATION OF KING CHARLES III

Before the coronation: Savanta ComRes polls
Before the coronation: YouGov polls
Before the coronation: other surveys
After the coronation

OPINION POLLS―OTHER TOPICS

Ipsos Global Advisor multinational religion study
World Values Survey, Wave 7 (2017–22): update―new report on UK findings
The Archbishop of Canterbury and contemporary politics
Functions of the British monarchy: is preservation of Christian morality one of them?
Demographics of self-reported attendance at religious services in Great Britain
Anti-Semitism in Western and Eastern Europe: The ADL Global 100 Index, 2022

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Church Commissioners for England annual report, 2022
Church of Scotland membership and attendance statistics for 2022

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Marriages in England and Wales, 2020
Census, 2021, England and Wales: new reports and data

NEW DATASETS

European Social Survey Round 10 data release
UK Data Service, SN 9079: Community Life Survey, 2021–2022

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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, March 2023

Posted on April 2, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 90, March 2023 features 14 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 90 March 2023

OPINION POLLS

Religious beliefs around the world: Gallup International Association poll
Political leaders and their religious beliefs: fall-out from the SNP leadership contest
Round-up of latest YouGov tracker polls
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
Attitudes of young Muslims in the UK and their non-Muslim peers

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England cathedral statistics, 2021
Muslim women in sport: Muslim Census poll for Muslimah Sports Association
UK Jewish attitudes to the 2021 conflict in Israel and Gaza

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Estimated suicide rates by religion in England and Wales, 2011–21
Census, 2021, England and Wales: religion by housing, health, employment, education

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Psychological type profiles of the UK’s non-Anglican ministries
Other recent open access articles in academic journals

NEW DATASETS

Religion and politics: two UK home nation election datasets, 2021
Release of World Values Survey wave 7 (2017–22) datasets

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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, November 2021

Posted on December 2, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 74, November 2021 features 19 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 74 November 2021

OPINION POLLS

Latest updates to YouGov tracker polls on religious issues
Popularity of national and religious events: YouGov Ratings data for quarter 3, 2021
YouGov@Cambridge Globalism Project, 2021: conspiracy theories
Knowledge and awareness of the Holocaust: multinational survey including the UK
Savanta ComRes polling for the Centre for Enterprise, Markets, and Ethics
Other Savanta ComRes polling: hospitality, marriage, Christmas, religious prejudice

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Perceiving the Church of England: an insider’s reading of outsider views
Church of England’s energy footprint: annual report for 2020
Evangelical Alliance survey of Christians and climate change
Coronavirus chronicles: children’s ministry and the pandemic
Mapping England’s spiritual needs: estimates by Peter Brierley
Coronavirus chronicles: Co-operative Funeralcare’s 2021 music charts
Coronavirus chronicles: update on Jewish mortality
Representations of Muslims and Islam in the British media

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Crimes in churches, 2020/21: Freedom of Information data

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Round-up of recent publications: four articles, a thesis, and a report

NEW DATASETS

UK Data Service, SN 8867: Community Life Survey, 2020-2021
UK Data Service, SN 8870: National Survey for Wales, 2020–2021

PEOPLE NEWS

Professor Linda Woodhead MBE, now at King’s College London

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2020

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 63, December 2020 features 16 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 63 December 2020

OPINION POLLS

Coronavirus chronicles: multinational study of the pandemic’s impact on religious faith
YouGov study on Christianity in Britain: a mid-pandemic snapshot
Festive traditions: planned attendance at a Christmas religious service in 2020
Coronavirus chronicles: Bible sustains churchgoers in the UK and Republic of Ireland
Coronavirus chronicles: attitudes of religious communities to vaccines
Pew Research Center’s International Science Survey, 2019–20
Ipsos Global Advisor predictions for 2021: ghosts and aliens
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Fourth edition published of Peter Brierley’s triennial UK Church Statistics
Statistical profile of British evangelicalism in the early 2010s
Coronavirus chronicles: attendance at Mass by Roman Catholics during the pandemic
Coronavirus chronicles: more evidence of disproportionate UK Jewish mortality
Coronavirus chronicles: study of the impact of Covid-19 on Jewish wealth and health

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

UK government diversity statistics, 2020

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: BRIC-19 research project on digital congregations
Some recent articles in academic journals

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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2020

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 59, August 2020 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 59 August 2020

OPINION POLLS

Coronavirus chronicles: religion/spirituality under lockdown–YouGov polling
Coronavirus chronicles: religion/spirituality under lockdown–Savanta ComRes polling
Coronavirus chronicles: have religious divisions in the UK shifted in the pandemic?
Coronavirus chronicles: attending places of worship after lockdown
Sunday shopping hours: latest YouGov tracker
Belief in God or a spiritual greater power: latest YouGov tracker
Influence of religion on the world: latest YouGov tracker
Plight of persecuted Christians in Nigeria: time for the UK to take action?
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
British Muslim anti-Semitism: Savanta ComRes poll for Henry Jackson Society
Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill: Savanta ComRes survey in Scotland

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Zoom boom for churches, reports Ecclesiastical
Coronavirus chronicles: UK Jewish mortality statistics
Media reporting of Muslims and terrorism: new statistical insights

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Britain’s changing religious landscape: estimates from the Annual Population Survey
Coronavirus chronicles: postponement of 2021 census of population in Scotland
Solemnization of marriages in Scotland: humanist progress checked for the first time
Religious diversity of civil servants as at 31 March 2020
Religious diversity of armed forces personnel as at 1 April 2020
Entries for Religious Studies in June 2020 school examinations in England and Wales

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: impact of the pandemic on Christian welfare organizations

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