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Category Archives: Historical studies
Assessing the Decade of Evangelism
Resolution 43 of the 1988 Lambeth Conference called on ‘each province and diocese of the Anglican Communion, in co-operation with other Christians, to make the closing years of this millennium a “Decade of Evangelism” with a renewed and united emphasis … Continue reading
Future of the Global Muslim Population
The long-awaited Pew report on The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Projections for 2010-2030 was eventually published yesterday by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life. The Forum, based in Washington DC, is a non-partisan organization … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, Measuring religion, News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate
Tagged cohort-component method, demography, fertility, Forum on Religion and Public Life, Immigration, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Islam, Muslims, Pew Research Center, Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project
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Religious Crisis of the 1960s: The Debate Continues
Hard on the heels of Love Now, Pay Later? (SPCK, 2010), a major reappraisal by Nigel Yates of religion and morality in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s (see our earlier post at http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=701), in which the author both explicitly … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies
Tagged 1960s, Callum Brown, Gerald Parsons, Hugh McLeod, Ian Randall, Nigel Yates, Simon Green
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Religious Archives
The origins of record-keeping in this country are primarily religious, rather than secular. The state was a remarkably late entrant on the scene. Thus, until well into the nineteenth century, the registration of births, marriages and deaths and the proving … Continue reading
Religion and Morality in the 1950s and 1960s
We reported in the summer on the ongoing scholarly debate about ‘When was secularization?’ (in Britain) – see http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=347. In particular, we noted the arguments of Professor Callum Brown for regarding the 1960s as the major tipping-point on the trajectory … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies
Tagged 1950s, 1960s, morality, Nigel Yates, sex, sexual revolution
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Counting Catholics
Andrew Brown of the Guardian has just written a very interesting article on the problems of calculating the size of the Catholic community. The Catholic Church defines the Catholic community as those people who have been baptised living within England and Wales. Continue reading
Religious Census of Berkshire in 1851
On 30 March 1851, for the first and last time, a government survey of religious accommodation and attendance was undertaken throughout Great Britain as part of the decennial census of population. Information was gathered from the minister or lay official in … Continue reading
Religious Equality
Pat Thane has edited a new book exploring seven aspects of inequality in Britain since the Second World War, including religious. Entitled Unequal Britain: Equalities in Britain since 1945 (London: Continuum, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84706-298-7), its contributors are all associated with … Continue reading
Turbulent Times
BRIN readers keen to understand the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990 will find helpful a book which was published by Continuum on 22 July. Entitled Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today, it … Continue reading
Long-Living Methodists
The current issue (24 June 2010, p. 2) of the Methodist Recorder, the weekly newspaper for Methodists in Great Britain, reports the death of Stanley Lucas of Cornwall. Aged 110 (he was born on 15 January 1900), he was thought … Continue reading