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Tag Archives: sex
Sex, Guilt, and Religion and Other News
Our lead story today features the second instalment of findings from the YouGov survey commissioned for this year’s series of Westminster Faith Debates. There are also four other items of more general religious statistical news. Sex, guilt, and religion The second … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Religious Census, Survey news
Tagged census of population, Charles Clarke, Church of England, Codex Sinaiticus, contraception, David Graham, extra-marital sex, Faith in Research, guilt, historical documents, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos-MORI, Jewish neighbourhoods, King James Bible, King's College London, Lancaster University, Linda Woodhead, Lindisfarne Gospels, Magna Carta, Muslims, Pastoral Research Centre, pornography, pre-marital sex, Religion and Society Programme, religious census, religious knowledge, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, sex, Sir Robert Worcester, Textus Roffensis, Tony Spencer, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov
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Children and Pornography
Today’s Daily Mail reports that the Government may be back-tracking, on civil liberties grounds, on its commitments to introduce tough measures to protect children from access to online pornography, which would entail explicit requirements to opt into adult content. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged children, Christianity, churches, ComRes, Cpanel, government, internet, ISPs, pornography, Premier Christian Media Trust, reading, sex, television, watershed
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Legalization of Gay Marriage
The Conservative Party risks losing Christian votes if it goes ahead with legalizing gay marriage, as advocated by David Cameron at the Party’s recent conference in Manchester, a ComRes survey published on 4 November 2011 has revealed. The poll was undertaken … Continue reading
Participation in Higher Education and Religion
‘Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs more likely to go to university than their Christian classmates’, proclaimed the headline to Richard Vaughan’s article in The TES for 22 July 2011. The story was subsequently picked up by the Daily Telegraph on 23 … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged A Levels, Christians, Department for Education, educational attainment, ethnicity, GCSEs, higher education, Hindus, Longitudinal Study of Young People in England, LSYPE, Muslims, Richard Vaughan, sex, Sikhs, Steve Strand, TES, Times Educational Supplement
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Religion, Youth and Sexuality
‘Sex and religion are generally considered uncomfortable bedfellows.’ So begins a new 24-page report which offers fascinating insights into the diversity of interactions between religion and sexuality among the young. Authored by Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip (University of Nottingham), Michael Keenan … 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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