Demographic and religious background of candidates for the Church of England General Synod; their experiences of General Synod and electioneering for it; and their attitudes to a range of social, political and religious issues (2289)

Type of Data: Demographic and religious background of candidates for the Church of England General Synod; their experiences of General Synod and electioneering for it; and their attitudes to a range of social, political and religious issues (2289)

Faith Community: Christianity (Church of England)

Date: 1975, 28 November-1976, 31 March

Geography: England

Sample Size: 682 (80% response)

Population: Individuals standing for election to the General Synod of the Church of England in September 1975

Keywords: Abortion, Anglican-Methodist Union Scheme, big business, capital punishment, charismatic movement, church and state, Church leaders, churchmanship, Church of England, church schools, clergy, Common Market, community work, confirmation, death penalty, disestablishment, divorce, ecumenism, election, Empire, General Synod, Government, immigration, inflation, liturgy, monarchy, moral decline, national coalition, nationalization, Northern Ireland, office-holding, ordination of women, patronage, police, political demonstrations, politics, preaching, Queen, remarriage in church, Roman Catholic Church, social services, trade unions, voting, women

Collection Method: Self-completion postal questionnaire

Collection Agency: Department of Government, University of Manchester

Sponsor: Economic and Social Research Council

Published Source:

George Moyser, 'The Political Organisation of the Middle Class: The Case of the Church of England', The Middle Class in Politics, eds. John Garrard, David Jary, Michael Goldsmith and Adrian Oldfield, Farnborough: Saxon House, 1978, pp. 262-93

George Moyser and Kenneth Medhurst, 'Political Participation and Attitudes in the Church of England', Government and Opposition, Vol. 13, 1978, pp. 81-95

Kenneth Medhurst and George Moyser, 'The Open Synod Group', Living the Faith: A Call to the Church, ed. Kathleen Jones, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 132-49

Kenneth Medhurst and George Moyser, Church and Politics in a Secular Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988

BRIN ID: 2289

Remarks:

Dataset available at ESDS as SN 1777

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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