Religious beliefs and practices (1464)

Type of Data: Religious beliefs and practices (1464)

Faith Community: General, Christianity

Date: 1998, April-September

Geography: Great Britain. Part of multinational survey

Sample Size: 804

Population: Adults

Keywords: Afterlife, Bible, Church, church activities, church attendance, churchgoing, confidence, God, heaven, hell, influence of religion, life after death, miracles, politics, power, prayer, religion, religious affiliation, religious faith, religious leaders, religious organizations, religious turning-point, science, self-assessed religiosity, truth

Collection Method: Self-completion questionnaire

Collection Agency: National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)

Sponsor: International Social Survey Programme

Published Source:

Nan Dirk de Graaf and Ariana Need, 'Losing Faith: Is Britain Alone?', British Social Attitudes, the 17th Report: Focusing on Diversity, eds. Roger Jowell, John Curtice, Alison Park, Katarina Thomson, Lindsey Jarvis, Catherine Bromley and Nina Stratford, London: Sage Publications, 2000, pp. 119-36

Andrew M. Greeley, Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millennium, New Brunswick: Transaction, 2003

Detlef Pollack, 'Explaining Religious Vitality: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Findings in Western and Eastern Europe', Religiositat in der Sakularisierten Welt: Theoretische und Empirische Beitrage zur Sakularisierungsdebatte in der Religionssoziologie, eds Manuel Franzmann, Christel Gartner and Nicole Kock, Wiesbaden: Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2006, pp. 83-103

Andrew M. Greeley, 'Unsecular Europe: The Persistence of Religion', The Role of Religion in Modern Societies, eds Detlef Pollack and Daniel Virgil Adolf Olson, New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 141-61

BRIN ID: 1464

Remarks:

Dataset available at ESDS as SN 4482. Multinational survey, conducted in Great Britain and 15 other countries

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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