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

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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, 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

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

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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

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

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2024

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 110, November 2024 features nine short articles on 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 110 November 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Crisis in the Church of England: resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Assisted dying Bill: polling of British public by Focaldata and More in Common
  • Belief in an afterlife, a nation divided into thirds: More in Common poll
  • Ipsos Veracity Index, 2024: trust in professions and groups to tell the truth

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Participation of ethnic minorities in Church of England ministry and leadership
  • Ethnic diaspora congregations in Scotland: Brendan Research report
  • Provision of religious education in primary schools in England and Wales
  • Intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe

PEOPLE NEWS

  • Profile of Fiona Tweedie, church statistician

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

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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

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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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2023

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 98, November 2023 features seventeen 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 98 November 2023

OPINION POLLS

  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: British attitudes towards Israel at war
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: Savanta poll of Muslim voting intentions
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: Savanta poll of Labour councillors
  • Emotional responses to death and dying in the UK: latest Theos report
  • Mental health, job satisfaction, and the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life
  • Practising Christians’ attitudes to sharing their faith: Savanta poll
  • Effectiveness of Churches in helping during the cost of living crisis: YouGov poll
  • ‘Blasphemy’ in UK schools: the teachers’ perspective

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Church attendance in the Church of England―Glimmers of hope? Perhaps not
  • Survey of financial pressures among Church of England ordinands in training
  • Religion at work: Pearn Kandola Research report
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: anti-Semitic incidents
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: poll of UK Jews on post-7 October experiences

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Census, 2021, England and Wales: new article and data on sexual orientation
  • Police-recorded hate crimes in England and Wales, 2022–23: revised data
  • Equality and Human Rights Monitor, 2023

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

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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2023

Posted on September 3, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 95, August 2023 features fourteen 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 95 August 2023

OPINION POLLS

  • Is the UK a Christian country? Perceptions of the general public
  • YouGov trackers: influence of religion, belief in god(s), Sunday trading laws
  • Utility of religious education in schools
  • Perceptions of the United States as more religious than other wealthy nations

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • The Times survey of Church of England priests
  • Three recent reports from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research
  • Anti-Semitic incidents in the UK, January–June 2023
  • British Muslims’ charitable giving

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Extremism in Scotland: new evidence of public attitudes
  • Religion of civil servants
  • Census 2021, England and Wales: overcrowding and under-occupancy by religion
  • Public examination results in Religious Studies, June 2023: A Levels and GCSEs

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Recent articles by Leslie Francis and his research network

NEW DATASET

  • European Social Survey: release of CRONOS-2 dataset

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

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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

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

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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

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

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