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Tag Archives: British Social Attitudes Surveys
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill
The increasingly heated controversy over the Coalition Government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill for England and Wales shifts to Parliament tomorrow (5 February 2013), with the Second Reading debate in the House of Commons. It therefore seems a good point … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Research note, Survey news
Tagged British Social Attitudes Surveys, Church of England, ComRes, courts, David Cameron, government, homosexuality, ICM, Ipsos-MORI, legislation, lesbians/gays/bisexuals, Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, OnePoll, places of worship, religious marriages, same-sex marriage, Survation, YouGov
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Attitudes to Muslims
The year 2012 ended with the revelation that the Muslim community in England and Wales had grown by 75% between the 2001 and 2011 censuses of population. This basic demographic fact, combined with the increasingly prominent role and voice which … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged Ben Clements, British Social Attitudes Surveys, cartoon, Charlie Hebdo, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, hate crime, Innocence of Muslims, integration, Islam, Islamophobia, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Muslims, offence, Prophet Muhammad, solidarity of the religious, United States, YouGov, Youtube
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Religious Census 2011 – England and Wales
There have been some marked changes in the religious composition of England and Wales during the past decade, according to the first results from the 2011 census of population which were released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on … Continue reading
Faith of the Faithless
‘Whatever the trends in affiliation to formalised religion in Britain, we are not a post-religious, still less a post-spiritual, society, and … even those “beyond the fringe” – who do not call themselves religious, attend religious services or believe in … Continue reading
British Cohort Study + Fostering
Our main story in today’s round-up of religious statistical news features initial findings from the current wave of one of the few genuinely longitudinal studies covering religion in this country, which further illustrates some of the methodological challenges involved in framing … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news
Tagged afterlife, Alice Sullivan, BCS70, British Cohort Study, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, church attendance, David Voas, Economic and Social Research Council, foster children, foster parents, fostering, God, Institute of Education, inter-religious fostering, life after death, Matt Brown, Methodology, question-wording, Religious Affiliation, religious upbringing, Rotherham, TNS-BMRB, YouGov
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What Anglicans (and others) think about homosexuality and disestablishment
Earlier today, the Church of England responded to the Government’s proposals to introduce same-sex marriage. In view of the discussion generated by the response, it is worth examining what Anglicans themselves think about gay relationships. BRIN correspondent Ben Clements, based at the University of Leicester, has recently looked at data from the British Social Attitudes surveys and the European Values Surveys to see how attitudes to homosexual relationship have changed over the past three decades or so. Continue reading
Integrated Household Survey, 2010-11
The Integrated Household Survey (IHS) is the biggest pool of UK social data after the decennial population census, so there will be special interest in the statistical bulletin containing headline results for the period April 2010 to March 2011, published … Continue reading
Theos Civil Unrest Survey
Britain may be poised for a period of protest and civil unrest, according to a new survey by ComRes for Theos, the public theology think-tank, released on 3 March. Fieldwork was conducted online on 23-25 February 2011, among 2,003 adults … Continue reading
‘Aggressive Atheism’
Many have judged the recent visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Scotland and England to have been a relative success, but it was almost derailed at the eleventh hour by comments made by one of his closest aides, Cardinal Walter … Continue reading
Zion’s People: Profile of English Nonconformity
Protestant Nonconformity, formerly known as Religious Dissent and latterly as the Free Churches, has made a major contribution to all walks of British life, not just the religious. The movement had its origins in the puritans and separatists of Elizabethan … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, Measuring religion
Tagged Age, Baptists, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Clive Field, Congregationalists, ethnicity, Free Churches, gender, marital status, Methodists, Nonconformity, occupation, Protestant Nonconformists, Quakers, Religious Society of Friends
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