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Category Archives: Organisational data
Climbing the Papal Mountain and Other News
Today’s post covers three news stories, two of which test public reactions to the religious landscape following, respectively, the resignation of the Pope and last month’s four cases of alleged religious discrimination appealed to the European courts. Climbing the … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Organisational data, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged accountants, African Pope, Anti-Semitism, Bethany Eckley, Burka, Christian cross, Christian Research Consultancy, Church of England, Church Urban Fund, clergy, ComRes, European Court of Human Rights, flight attendants, force for good, Independent on Sunday, Islamophobia, kippah, Nadia Eweida, nurses, papacy, parishes, Religious discrimination, religious dress, Roman Catholic Church, Shirley Chaplin, skullcap, social action, Sunday Mirror, teachers, workplace, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge
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Church Statistics, 2010-11
Church Statistics, 2010/11 (ISBN 978-0-9564659-2-4), the annual digest of data about the Church of England compiled by the Research and Statistics Department of the Archbishops’ Council, was published on 25 June 2012 and is available at: http://www.churchofengland.org/media/1477827/2010_11churchstatistics.pdf It comprises 34 … Continue reading
Rural Church
Rural Life and Rural Church: Theological and Empirical Perspectives, edited by Leslie Francis and Mandy Robbins was published last month by Equinox Publishing of Sheffield (ISBN 978-1-84553-984-9, £19.99, paperback). It reprints, together with a new introduction by the editors, 28 … Continue reading
BBC Staff Religion
Concern has been mounting for some time, among certain sections of the public, about a perceived anti-religious and, specifically, anti-Christian bias at the BBC. Continue reading
Restudies of Religion in English and Welsh Communities
Steve Bruce, who has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen since 1991, has been engaged since 2007 on an extended reappraisal of religious change in Britain since 1945, made possible by the award of a Leverhulme Trust … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Measuring religion, Organisational data, People news
Tagged Alwyn Rees, Anne Murcott, Banbury, Bill Pickering, Billingham, Church of England, Colin Bell, community studies, Contemporary Wales, County Durham, David Clark, Deerness Valley, Eric Batstone, Isabel Emmett, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Llanfihangel yng Ngwynfa, Llanfrothen Ffestiniog, Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog, Llanuwchllyn-Llangower, Margaret Stacey, Methodism, mining, Northern History, Oxfordshire, Peter Kaim-Caudle, Peterlee, Rawmarsh, restudies, Robert Moore, Ronald Frankenberg, Scunthorpe, secularization, Sociological Review, Staithes, Steve Bruce, Trefor Owen, Upper Teesdale, Wales, Yorkshire
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Women’s Representation in the Church in Wales
The Governing Body of the Church in Wales met at the University of Wales, Trinity St David on 21 and 22 September 2011. One of the items on its agenda was a report from Dr Gill Todd of the Diocese … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Organisational data
Tagged Church in Wales, churchwardens, clergy, diocesan boards of finance, finance, Gill Todd, Governing Body, Lord Rowe-Beddoe, membership, parochial church councils, representation, Representative Body, Richard Jones, women
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Equality Duties and Schools
Even before the Public Sector Equality Duty came into effect on 5 April 2011, thereby extending the legislative diversity responsibilities of public bodies to religion or belief, more than nine-tenths of maintained schools had already built religion or belief into … Continue reading
Is the BBC Christianophobic?
‘The BBC “is ageist and anti-Christian”: that’s the verdict of the Corporation’s OWN survey’, ran the headline over an article by Paul Revoir in yesterday’s edition of the Daily Mail, although the paper’s reporter had to confess that ‘it is … Continue reading
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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