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Author Archives: Siobhan McAndrew
Developing BRIN
Those visiting the site regularly will notice that this weekend, and over the next few days, the site is being rebuilt. We are migrating the content to the WordPress platform, which has been powering this ‘News’ section for almost two years. Continue reading
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Does Christianity Have A Future?
BRIN readers who happen to catch this post before 10.25pm this evening (Sunday 17 April) may be interested in tonight’s programme, DOES CHRISTIANITY HAVE A FUTURE? on BBC1. Continue reading
Posted in Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press
Tagged Ann Widdecombe, David Voas
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Trends in Anglican Confirmations, 1872-2009
There has been some discussion in the press regarding Kate Middleton’s recent confirmation as an Anglican, and so I thought I would look up the extant data. Continue reading
Religious Affiliation and Volunteering
This post is just to flag up the release of the most recent Taking Part in England dataset, covering January-December 2010. This survey is sponsored by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and asks an unusually large sample their leisure and cultural pursuits. It also asks questions about friendships, political participation, and volunteering.
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Religious Affiliation by Birth Decade
Looking at the pooled British Social Attitudes 1983-2008 sample, I wanted to see how religious affiliation varies by birth decade in England, Scotland and Wales, and particularly how younger birth cohorts compare with older birth cohorts.
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Church Attendance in England, 1980-2005
As stated earlier, I am selecting some interesting data tables from the seven print editions of Religious Trends, published 1998-2008 by Christian Research and compiled and edited by Peter Brierley, for republishing on BRIN with some additional visuals. We’re very grateful to Christian Research and Peter Brierley for allowing selective republishing. Some editions are out of print and so reproduction is especially valuable.
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Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, Organisational data, Uncategorized
Tagged Baptist Churches, Christian Research, church attendance, Church of England, Independent Churches, Methodist Churches, New Churches, Orthodox Churches, Pentecostalism, Peter Brierley, religious trends, Roman Catholic Church, United Reformed Church
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Christian and Secular Youth Organisation Membership, 1951-2006
I have been browsing data tables from the seven editions of Religious Trends, compiled by Peter Brierley and published over 1997 to 2008. Some are highly interesting and I thought it worth attempting to publish them in datablog rather than static page form. Continue reading
Places of Worship in England and Wales, 1999-2009
We have spent a little time compiling data on registered places of worship in England and Wales from 1999-2009 and are making a note here on the data, and the caveats you need to bear in mind before interpreting them. The headline data suggest that ‘mainline’ established denominations are showing a reduction over time in numbers of places of worship, while other world religions, ‘other Christians’, and ‘other’ faith communities are exhibiting a gradual increase.
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Posted in Measuring religion, Official data, Uncategorized
Tagged Baptists, Brethren, Calvinistic Methodists, Congregationalists, General Register Office, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jewish, Mark Littler, Mehmood Naqshbandi, Methodists, Muslims in Britain, National Statistics, Register of Places of Worship, Roman Catholics, Salvation Army, Sikhs, Society of Friends, Unitarians, United Reformed Church
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“Other – Write In”
The British Election Study 2009-2010 is a valuable resource for political scientists. What researchers in religion may not realise is that the questions on religious affiliation can tell us something about how people define themselves, and to a certain extent, about the comparative size of new religious movements, sects, and smaller religions. The Internet Panel sample comprised 16816 respondents giving more ability than in smaller surveys to look at smaller faith communities. Continue reading
Ethnic Minority British Election Study 2009-2010 now online
The British Election Study (BES) constitutes the longest academic series of nationally representative probability sample surveys in Britain. In addition to the main pre- and post-election surveys run over 2009-2010, a survey of ethnic minorities was run, and this week made available online at http://bes2009-10.org/.
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