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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2017
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 22, July 2017 features 12 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 22 July 2017 OPINION POLLS Trust in religious figures Only a minority (22%) of … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitic crimes, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, Be Reasonable, Ben Clements, Board of Deputies of British Jews, British Election Study, British values, Campaign against Antisemitism, Charity Awareness Monitor, civil service, Community Security Trust, ComRes, Dalai Lama, Donatella Casale Mashiah, Economic and Social Research Council, Evangelical Alliance, extremism, extremist figures, Freedom of Information Act, GlobeScan, influence in the world, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Jesus Christ, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, Muslims, negative stereotypes, nfpSynergy, Populus, Religious Affiliation, ScotCen Social Research, Scotland, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, senior religious figures, Survation, synagogue membership, trust, University of Maryland, Wales, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge
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Counting Religion in Britain, February 2017
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 17, February 2017 features 31 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 17 February 2017 OPINION POLLS Places of worship The overwhelming majority (87%) of … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged 1960s, abstinence, Andrew Brown, anti-Semitic incidents, Bradford, British Social Attitudes Surveys, British values, Callum Brown, census of population, chapels, Chatham House, Church of England, churches, clergy, Clive Field, Clive Murray Norris, Community Security Trust, ComRes, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Daniel Staetsky, Derbyshire, Donald Trump, Easter, Eurotrack, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, Experiences of Ministry, fake news, finance, fundamental clash, Gareth Streeter, Generation Z, Greg Smith, hate crimes, homosexuality, Hope Not Hate, Ian Sansbury, Immigration, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, integration, Ipsos-MORI, Islam, Islamic State, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, John Crummett, Jonathan Boyd, Journal of Youth Studies, Julia Pye, Kantar Public, learning disabilities, Lent, lesbian gay or bisexual people, Linda Woodhead, Living Ministry, London, meeting houses, Mental Health, Methodism, ministry, Muslim countries, Muslims, NatCen Social Research, National Churches Trust, National Identity, New Mills Local History Society, Nick Lowles, Nicola Madge, Oasis Foundation, Office for Civil Society, Olivia Michelmore, Opinium Research, origins of life on earth, Oxford University Press, Peter Hemming, Pew Global Attitudes Project, places of worship, Populus, PwC, Religious Affiliation, religious census, religious festivals, religious leaders, religious nones, religious prejudice, Roger Hutchinson, same-sex marriage, science, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish Surveys Core Questions, secularization, Southend News Network, St Valentine’s Day, state visit, Step up to Serve, Steve Chalke, Sunday Mirror, terrorist attack, The Independent, The Times, theology, Theresa May, travel ban, trust, Twenty-First Century Evangelicals, United States of America, Varkey Foundation, WATCH, Wellcome Science Education Tracker, Wellcome Trust, Western civilization, Women and the Church, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge, youth social action
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Counting Religion in Britain, February 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 5, February 2016 features 23 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 5 February 2016 OPINION POLLS Prayer Two-fifths (42%) of 2,023 Britons answered in … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, People news, Religion and Politics, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news
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Church Buildings and Other News
Church buildings Churchgoing may be a distinctly minority activity in contemporary Britain, but as many as 45% of the population claim to have visited a church or chapel during the past year for either religious or non-religious purposes, rising … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Survey news
Tagged anti-Semitic incidents, Bible, Christianity magazine, church attendance, church buildings, Church of England, Clive Field, Community Security Trust, ComRes, Dalai Lama, Diocese of Canterbury, Food Standards Agency, freedom of religion, Fresh Expressions, general election, halal, Index on Censorship, Innes Bowen, James Lewis, Jews, John Walker, Magna Carta, Martin Saunders, Mehmood Naqshbandi, mosques, Muslim News, Muslims, National Churches Trust, New Religious Movements, politics, Pope Francis, pornography, Religious Affiliation, ScotCen Social Research, Scotland, Scottish Social Attiutudes Survey, shechita, slaughter of animals, YouGov
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Church of England Health Check and Other News
Church of England health check Further to our post of 31 January 2014, we now note the appearance of the second and third instalments of the ‘Church Health Check’ series being run in the Church Times. In the issue for … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news
Tagged abortion, Afghanistan, Andrew Village, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, census of population, Church of England, Church of Scotland, Church Times, Community Security Trust, Critical Research, David Voas, euthanasia, family, Fiona Tweedie, health check, Highlands and Islands, Hoge Intrinsic Religiosity Scale, homosexuality, Jews, leadership, Leslie Francis, Linda Woodhead, Mark Hookham, ministry, Mission and Discipleship Council, Modern Believing, non-churchgoers, parishes, Peter King, Queen’s Royal Hussars, Religious Affiliation, Roman Catholic Church, same-sex marriage, social impact, soldiers, Statistics for Mission Group, Steve Aisthorpe, Sunday Times, values, Vatican, volunteering, Westminster Faith Debates, women bishops, YouGov
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Vicar of Dibley and Other News
You can tell that it is the mid-summer ‘silly season’, when hard news is more difficult to come by, if BRIN has to lead a post on the fictional sitcom The Vicar of Dibley! However, we also find space for … Continue reading
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Abortion and Other News
Our lead religious statistical news story today concerns the first release of data from the YouGov poll specially commissioned for the 2013 series of Westminster Faith Debates, which commences tomorrow. There will be further releases of data in connection with … Continue reading
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Tagged Abby Day, abortion, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, BBC, Ben Quinn, census of population, Charles Clarke, Clive Field, Community Security Trust, Linda Woodhead, nominalist Christianity, Religious Affiliation, religious census, same-sex marriage, The Guardian, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov
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Anti-Semitic Incidents, 2011
For the first time ever since reporting began, there were more anti-Semitic incidents in Greater Manchester than in Greater London in 2011, even though the Jewish population of the capital is seven times the size of Manchester’s. This is one … Continue reading