Demographic profile, religious beliefs and practice and attitudes to religious, moral and socio-political issues of young churchgoers (2218)

Type of Data: Demographic profile, religious beliefs and practice and attitudes to religious, moral and socio-political issues of young churchgoers (2218)

Faith Community: Christianity

Date: 1979, November-1980, April

Geography: Local survey. Lancashire (Burnley, Clitheroe, Lancaster, Morecambe, Preston and Skelmersdale areas)

Sample Size: 1328 (70% response)

Population: Churchgoing youth aged 13-20

Keywords: Abortion, afterlife, Bible, church activities, church attendance, churchgoing, church membership, clergy, contraception, counselling, crime, divorce, drugs, drunkenness, ecumenism, environment, euthanasia, extra-marital sex, God, grace before meals, homelessness, homosexuality, horoscopes, immigration, importance of religion, inflation, intelligent life on other planets, invasion from outer space, jealousy, Jesus Christ, law, leisure, lies, life after death, luck, moral values, National Health Service, nationalization, nuclear war, older people, one true religion, ordination of women, parking restrictions, political parties, politics, pollution, pornography, poverty, prayer, private medicine, private schools, promises, racial prejudice, reincarnation, religious affiliation, religious education, religious experience, Resurrection, self-image, stealing, suicide, third world, trade unions, unemployment, violence on television, voting, war, well-being, women, work, world situation, worries, worship

Collection Method: Self-completion postal questionnaire

Collection Agency: British Council of Churches Youth Unit

Sponsor: St Martin's College, Lancaster and Department of Education and Science

Published Source:

Young People and the Church: The Report of a Working Party Set Up by the British Council of Churches Youth Unit, London: British Council of Churches, 1981

Leslie John Francis, Teenagers and the Church: A Profile of Church-Going Youth in the 1980s, London: Collins, 1984

BRIN ID: 2218

Remarks:

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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