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Tag Archives: Anti-Semitism
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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Abortion and Other News
Our lead religious statistical news story today concerns the first release of data from the YouGov poll specially commissioned for the 2013 series of Westminster Faith Debates, which commences tomorrow. There will be further releases of data in connection with … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news
Tagged Abby Day, abortion, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, BBC, Ben Quinn, census of population, Charles Clarke, Clive Field, Community Security Trust, Linda Woodhead, nominalist Christianity, Religious Affiliation, religious census, same-sex marriage, The Guardian, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov
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Churchgoing in York and Other News
Herewith three news items which have come to hand during the final week of October: Churchgoing in York The churchgoing history of York from 1764 to the present day is recounted, statistically, in part II (chapter 6, pp. 113-56) of … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Semitism, Back to Church Sunday, Baptist Union, BIG Welcome, Christianophobia, Christians, church attendance, church growth, David Goodhew, Elim Pentecostal Church, Islamophobia, Jews, Methodist Church, mission, Muslims, prejudice, Religious discrimination, Robin Gill, York, YouGov
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Anti-Semitic Incidents, 2011
For the first time ever since reporting began, there were more anti-Semitic incidents in Greater Manchester than in Greater London in 2011, even though the Jewish population of the capital is seven times the size of Manchester’s. This is one … Continue reading
National Jewish Student Survey, 2011
‘Jewish students are comfortable being openly Jewish at British universities, despite having concerns about attitudes to Israel on campus. Their commitment to Israel and the Jewish people is robust, but their appreciation of their personal social responsibility lacks muscle.’ These … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Semitism, concerns, David Graham, friends, higher education, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos-MORI, Israel, Jewish students, Jewishness, Jonathan Boyd, JPR, National Jewish Student Survey, Pears Foundation, students, Union of Jewish Students
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Restrictions on Religion
The UK’s reputation as a land of religious liberty and toleration seems set to take a bit of a knock following the publication on 9 August 2011 of Rising Restrictions on Religion by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion … Continue reading
Muslim-Western Tensions – British Experiences
‘Muslim and Western publics continue to see relations between them as generally bad, with both sides holding negative stereotypes of the other.’ However, there has been ‘somewhat of a thaw in the U.S. and Europe compared with five years ago’. … Continue reading
Posted in Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Semitism, Britishness, Christianophobia, Christians, economic prosperity, extremism, integration, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamophobia, Jews, Muslims, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Princeton Survey Research Associates International, religious prejudice, violence
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Antisemitism Worldwide, 2010
23% of all serious acts of violence and vandalism perpetrated against Jews and Jewish property globally in 2010 took place in the UK, according to Antisemitism Worldwide, 2010: General Analysis. This is a newly published report from Tel Aviv University’s … Continue reading
Group-Focused Enmity in Europe
Fresh light on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Britain is shed in a report published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin on 11 March 2011. Entitled Intolerance, Prejudice and Discrimination: A European Report, it is written by Andreas Zick, Beate Kupper and … Continue reading
Posted in Measuring religion, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged Alliance Publishing Trust, Andreas Hovermann, Andreas Zick, Anti-Semitism, Beate Kupper, Bielefeld Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, holocaust, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Jews, Muslims, Palestinians, prejudice, self-assessed religiosity, terrorism, TNS, women
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Public perceptions of the religious dimensions of the Israel-Palestine conflict are illuminated in a six-nation ICM poll released on 13 March and undertaken on behalf of the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies (established in 2006), the Middle East Monitor (MEMO, … Continue reading