Counting Religion in Britain, March 2025

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 114, March 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 (with URLs for sources, where available) can be downloaded from the following link No 114 March 2025

OPINION POLLS

  • Religious switching in UK/abroad: more data from Pew Global Attitudes Survey, 2024
  • Religion of Englishness: More in Common polling
  • British beliefs about alien life: new YouGov poll

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Christian giving in the UK: Stewardship’s Generosity Report, 2025
  • SPCK’s claims about a surge in Bible sales and its linkage to Gen Z
  • Coronavirus Chronicles: Covid-19 and the ongoing decline of British Methodism
  • Facts and figures about the Israeli diaspora: Institute for Jewish Policy Research report
  • Value of Ramadan to British society and economy: Equi report

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Scottish Surveys Core Questions, 2023: religion question

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Ethnic harassment, religious identity, and wellbeing in the UK
  • Attitudes of UK Christians towards Jews, Israel, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2024

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 111, December 2024 features thirteen 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 111 December 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Likes about Christmas: YouGov poll among British adults
  • Christmas in 1969 and 2024 compared: more of a family than a religious occasion
  • Bishops in the House of Lords: should they stay or should they go?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2023
  • National Secular Society research on the requirement to take GCSE Religious Studies
  • Anti-Semitic incidents in British universities, 2022–24

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Religion and community life in England, 2023/24
  • Enhancing official data collection about Sikhs and Jews as ethnic groups
  • Diversity of the judiciary in England and Wales, 2024

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Brethren in the 1851 religious census of England and Wales
  • Religious life in Wiltshire during the 1860s
  • Local and regional case studies of organized Christianity in Britain since 1914
  • Representation of mosques in the British broadsheet press

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2024

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 109, October 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 109 October 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Reform of the House of Lords: should Church of England bishops keep their seats?
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: sympathies with Israel and Palestinians
  • Observance of, and attitudes to, Halloween in Britain

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Economic value of church provided health and wellbeing activities
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: British Jewish views
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: JPR analysis of anti-Semitism post-7 October
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents
  • Core Jewish population of Great Britain

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Religious and other hate crimes, 2023–24

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • English and Welsh Catholic attitudes to child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
  • Political, social, economic, and religious perspectives of ethnic minority Britons
  • Longitudinal study of churchgoing in Edinburgh and Leith
  • Religion in English northern industrial towns during the 1950s
  • Paganism in numbers

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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2024

Posted on September 1, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 107, August 2024 features twelve 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 107 August 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Pew Research Center polling updates on religion
  • Church closure poll: Whitestone Insight for National Churches Trust
  • UK general election, 2024: how faith communities actually voted
  • Religion as a source of the current conflict in the Middle East: new YouGov poll
  • Public concerns about religious extremism in the UK: Ipsos and YouGov polling
  • Is the National Health Service treated like a ‘national religion’ in Britain?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES 

  • Public examinations in Religious Studies
  • UK general election, 2024: final briefing from Theos, on religion and climate change
  • JPR report on UK Jewish observance of Shabbat
  • Community Security Trust report on anti-Semitic incidents, January–June 2024
  • Foreign-born Jews resident in the UK: Pew Research Center stands corrected

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Some picks from recent Taylor and Francis academic journals

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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 2024

Posted on May 25, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 104, May 2024 features fifteen 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 104 May 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Attitudes to faith in public life
  • Attitudes to Sunday trading hours in England and Wales
  • 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: university student opinion

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Will religion count in the UK and other national elections in 2024?
  • UK evangelical Christians and politics
  • Church of England attendance statistics, 2023: preliminary view
  • Church of Scotland congregational statistics, 2023
  • Collective worship in state schools: teacher attitudes and experiences
  • Further release from the UK National Jewish Identity Survey
  • National Jewish Student Survey, 2024

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Scotland’s census, 2022: religious affiliation data
  • Hate crimes recorded by the police in Scotland, 2022–23

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: giving up on online or offline services during lockdown

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2024

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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2024

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 102, March 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 102 March 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Attitudes to assisted dying: Opinium Research poll for Dignity in Dying
  • Religion and life satisfaction: Ipsos global happiness survey, 2024
  • HarrisX/Faith and Media Initiative global faith and entertainment study
  • 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: More in Common polling
  • Social contribution of British Muslims: Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life report

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Church of England parish finance statistics, 2022
  • Lapsed Catholics: Diocese of Brentford case study, 2023
  • Catholic Education Service digest of 2023 census data for Catholic schools and colleges
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: claimed UK and international media bias
  • Young people’s attitudes to religious and social groups: Anne Frank Trust’s impact

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Scottish Surveys Core Questions, 2022: religion question

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Two recent historical studies

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2024

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 99, December 2023 features nineteen 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 99 December 2023

OPINION POLLS

  • Observance of Christmas traditions in 2023, as anticipated by YouGov panellists
  • Religious affiliation in Great Britain: aggregate data from Yonder polls
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: Survation poll of UK Jewish opinion
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: YouGov poll of British and European publics
  • Ipsos Veracity Index, 2023: the public’s trust in clergy and priests to tell the truth
  • Two Ipsos surveys of alternative beliefs

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: Catholic Union survey on attitudes to church closures
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: anti-Semitic incidents
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: Islamophobic incidents
  • Do the UK’s Jews celebrate Christmas?
  • Do UK Jewish students feel their university cares about their wellbeing?
  • British Muslim charitable giving: second report

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Public Opinions and Social Trends, Great Britain: Christmas plans
  • Census, 2021, England and Wales: new article and datasets on Sikh identity
  • Census, 2021, England and Wales: new article and datasets on Jewish identity

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • A century of Roman Catholic statistics in Britain and Ireland
  • Science and religion: multinational study by YouGov for University of Birmingham
  • Cathedral studies: special issue of Journal of Beliefs and Values

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2023

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