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Tag Archives: Religiosity
British Future
Almost three-quarters of Britons consider that the country is a less religious place now than in 1948, the last time the Olympic Games were held here, according to a new survey by Ipsos MORI commissioned for the launch of British … Continue reading
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Tagged British Future, Ipsos-MORI, Rachael Jolley, Religiosity, religious unrest, Sunder Katwala
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The Greying Church
The greater propensity of older people to religious belief and practice is a well-established sociological phenomenon. In particular, the disproportionate number of elderly worshippers in UK congregations has been documented in church attendance censuses undertaken by Christian Research and other … Continue reading
American Religiosity – Viewed from Britain
Much has been written about the perceived contrasts between a secularizing Western Europe and a continuingly religious United States. One example is the book by Peter Berger, Grace Davie and Effie Fokas on Religious America, Secular Europe? (Ashgate, 2008), synthesizing a … Continue reading
Values and Religion
A social psychological view of the connection between religion and values is offered in the recent article by Miriam Pepper, Tim Jackson and David Uzzell, ‘A Study of Multidimensional Religion Constructs and Values in the United Kingdom’, Journal for the … Continue reading
Janet Eccles on Statistical Approaches to the Study of Religion
How much can statistics tell us about the state of ‘religion’ in Britain today, or in the past? Piety or religiosity may be expressed in many different ways – and outside conventional church traditions altogether. Some forms of religiosity are beyond practical forms of measurement. Continue reading
Religion and the Hidden Wealth of Nations
Halpern’s discussion of religion is in a chapter called ‘The Politics of Virtue’, concerned with good citizenship. Despite Britons being generally averse to seeing politicians parade their personal religiosity,
‘an everyday sense of moral values and a shared sense of what is acceptable behaviour, is key to making a society work – it is part of the ‘hidden wealth’ of a successful nation’.
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Religiosity and Party Choice
It’s interesting to read Justin Parkinson, Political Reporter at the BBC, on Christianity and the election.
It’s noteworthy that in the European elections of 2009, the Christian Party – established five years earlier – won 250,000 votes, or 1.6 per cent nationally. While this was not a significant result at the national level, it was nevertheless ahead of Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party. The party also polled 2.9 per cent in London. Continue reading
The Nationality of Numbers
As interesting as studying religion in Britain is, we often want to know to what extent what we find here is similar or different to the results from other countries. However, a problem with cross-national comparative studies of religion (and other social opinions, attitudes and behaviours) is that national context can make a huge difference to the meaning of certain concepts. Continue reading
The British Social Attitudes Survey 2008 (part II)
Just to clarify, part II refers to this being our second post on the 2008 BSA, rather than the survey having two parts. The excellent news is that the dataset has been published online this week, and it’s fair to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bioethical Attitudes, British Social Attitudes Survey, Civic Engagement, David Campbell, David Voas, Denmark, ESDS, Harvard, Intergenerational Transmission, Ireland, ISSP, Manchester, NatCen, National Identity, NORFACE, Northern Ireland, Notre Dame, Political Identity, Political Sociology, Relemerge, Religiosity, Religious Affiliation, Religious Identity, Robert Putnam, Social Capital, Templeton, The Netherlands, US
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