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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, 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, 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

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Counting Religion in Britain, September 2023

Posted on October 1, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 96, September 2023 features ten 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 96 September 2023

OPINION POLLS

Majority of people of faith supportive of assisted dying according to two YouGov polls
Importance of teaching Religious Studies at secondary school
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

The Times survey of Church of England priests (continuation)
Evaluation of the Transforming Wigan project in the Church of England
Methodist Church Statistics for Mission, 2022
Church of Scotland enhances capacity for research and analysis
Pastoral statistics of the Catholic Church in Scotland
Latest publications from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Census, 2021, England and Wales: new reports and data

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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, May 2021

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 68, May 2021 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 68 May 2021

OPINION POLLS

Afterlife beliefs: multinational poll from Maru Public Opinion
Religion and funerals: SunLife’s The Cost of Dying 2021 Report
First religion-related findings released from Fall 2020 Pew Global Attitudes Survey
Religion and conversion therapy: YouGov poll of public attitudes
Religion and charitable giving: YouGov Profiles data, 2020–21
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
Coronavirus chronicles: Israel as a potential holiday destination

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Peter Brierley’s overview of numbers and trends in the UK church scene in 2021
Coronavirus chronicles: Church of Scotland’s congregational statistics report for 2020

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Coronavirus chronicles: latest ONS data on vaccine hesitancy and religion
Coronavirus chronicles: updated ONS figures on deaths involving Covid-19 by religion
Scotland’s census, 2022: religion topic report
Teacher Roman Catholic approval management information for Scotland

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: three articles in the current edition of Rural Theology

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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2021

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 67, April 2021 features 11 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 67 April 2021

OPINION POLLS

Religious and faith groups ranked bottom of ten agencies for the support they offer
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: the Church of England’s community response to the pandemic
Coronavirus chronicles: the Scottish Church experience of Covid-19
Coronavirus chronicles: the Muslim experience of Covid-19
Coronavirus chronicles: the Jewish experience of Covid-19
British Sikh Report, 2020
Widespread disregard of daily collective worship in maintained schools in England

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Religion and Euroscepticism in Brexit Britain
Attitudes of contemporary British Catholics to personal morality and the priesthood
Primitive Methodism in Hertfordshire before 1918

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