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Counting Religion in Britain, June 2024

Posted on June 30, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 105, June 2024 features fourteen 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 105 June 2024

OPINION POLLS

UK general election, 2024: Survation/Jewish Chronicle poll of Jewish voting intentions
UK general election, 2024: Savanta/Hyphen poll of Muslim voting intentions
UK general election, 2024: deselection of David Campanale as a LibDem candidate
Attitudes to faith in public life: another Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life poll

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

UK general election, 2024: more briefings from Theos
UK general election, 2024: briefings from the Religion Media Centre
UK general election, 2024: How might Jewish electors vote?
Voice for Justice UK report on The Costs of Keeping the Faith
General Synod paper: parlous state of Church of England diocesan finances
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: impact on the UK film and television workforce

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religious marriages in England and Wales, 2021 and 2022

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Churchgoing in Britain during the fin de siècle
Coronavirus chronicles: religious affiliation and Covid-19 vaccine uptake in England

NEW DATASET

Release of European Social Survey, round 11 data for the UK

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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, 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 2022

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 86, November 2022 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 86 November 2022

OPINION POLLS

The UK’s first Hindu prime minister
Contact with and attitudes towards local churches: ComRes poll for Church of England
What makes someone a good member of society? Pew Global Attitudes Survey
The Open Generation: Barna Group survey of teens around the world
Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, 2022: trust in clergy and priests to tell the truth
Removal of British citizenship: Shamima Begum, the Islamic State bride (continued)

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: the place of families in church post-Covid-19
Praying online with the Church of England via podcast and app
Community use of church buildings in the Church of England Diocese of Ely
Methodists and their hymnbook(s): a new survey
Muslims and the cost of living crisis
Profiling the ‘nones’: latest Theos report

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religious census of England and Wales, 2021
Coronavirus chronicles: Scottish faith communities and the impact of Covid-19

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: more analyses by Village and Francis of their 2020–21 surveys
Meatless Fridays, Roman Catholics, and mitigating climate change

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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2022

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 83, August 2022 features fourteen 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 83 August 2022

OPINION POLLS

Self-reported religious behaviour: Savanta ComRes poll for the Church of England
Latest YouGov trackers on perceived influence of religion and beliefs about god(s)
Trustworthiness of clergy and priests: public perceptions in Britain and worldwide
Attitudes towards religious groups in contemporary England: HOPE Not Hate report

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Methods of estimating the Roman Catholic population of England and Wales
Anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom, January-June 2022
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and the use of the ‘Y word’

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Non-stun slaughter of farm animals: latest Food Standards Agency data
Public examination results in Religious Studies, June 2022: A Levels and GCSEs

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Liverpool Cathedral’s online music outreach in lockdown
Scottish Catholics not so distinctive from their English and Welsh counterparts
Separatist Presbyterianism in Scotland
The History of Methodist Insurance in Britain

NEW DATASETS

United Kingdom Data Service, SN 4562: Great Britain Historical Database, Census Data, Religion Statistics, 1851 (second edition) and SN 8945: Great Britain Historical Database, Census Data, Education Statistics, 1851 (first edition)

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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, October 2021

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 73, October 2021 features 13 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 73 October 2021

OPINION POLLS

UnHerd’s response to Savanta ComRes poll on frequency of churchgoing and prayer
YouGov Death Study: some afterlife beliefs
Trustworthiness of clergy or priests: Ipsos MORI global study of professional rankings
Anti-Semitism in Europe: Ipsos SA survey for the Action and Protection League
Coronavirus chronicles: a comeback for Halloween?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2020
Results of elections to the Church of England General Synod, 2021
Economic and social value of church buildings in the UK
UK Jews and climate change: Institute for Jewish Policy Research panel survey
Muslim Census survey about Muslim university student finance

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religious hate crimes recorded by police forces in England and Wales, 2020/21
Offender management statistics as at 30 September 2021

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Six recent articles in academic journals

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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2021

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 70, July 2021 features 10 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 70 July 2021

OPINION POLLS

Coronavirus chronicles: comfort about resuming attendance at places of worship
Perceived tension between different religions: Ipsos multinational survey
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
Reported sightings of, and suspected government secrecy about, UFOs: YouGov poll

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Church Army launches ‘investigating the distanced church’
Coronavirus chronicles: Methodist Church Statistics for Mission
Coronavirus chronicles: Jewish mortality during the first year of the pandemic

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Coronavirus chronicles: marriages in Scotland dramatically down in 2020

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Recent articles in academic journals: theme issue on psychological type and religion
Recent articles in academic journals: six miscellaneous

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Counting Religion in Britain, June 2021

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 69, June 2021 features 13 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 69 June 2021

OPINION POLLS

Religion questions in recent polling by Number Cruncher Politics for British Future
Coronavirus chronicles: vaccine hesitancy and religious groups – Ipsos MORI polling
YouGov poll of public attitudes to lobbying by faith leaders against assisted dying
Attitudes towards the recent conflict between Israel and Palestinians
Survation survey of political party identification and voting among British Muslims
Is it being political for football fans to sing songs about the Pope or ISIS?
Alternative beliefs: do aliens exist and have they visited the earth?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Good Faith Partnership’s vision for Covid-19 recovery

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Coronavirus chronicles: vaccine hesitancy and religious groups – ONS data
Faith schools and their pupils in England, January 2021
Religious profession in the armed forces as at 1 April 2021

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Values as the new religion: Linda Woodhead’s Edward Cadbury Lectures, 2021
Coronavirus chronicles: University of York’s ‘Churches, Covid-19, and Communities’

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