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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 13, October 2016 features 29 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: no-13-october-2016 OPINION POLLS Desert island Bibles The well-known figures featured on Desert Island … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Measuring religion, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Abby Day, Anglican Communion, Anglican identities, Anti-Semitism, Ashers Bakery, Ashgate, Asma Mustafa, asylum seekers, Awal Fuseini, Baptist Assembly, BBC, Ben Clements, Bible, Bible Society, BMG Research, Brill, cake, Catholic Directory, Christian Churches, Christian Legacy, Christian Resources Exhibitions, Church and Media Network, Church of England, churchgoing, clergy, Clive Field, ComRes, consumers, convent schools, Daily Express, deprivation, Desert Island Discs, discrimination, Dominik Hangartner, Elisabeth Arweck, Emma Shackle, ESRC Party Members Project, ethno-religious groups, evil spirits, exorcism, Frank Pasquale, Gallup Poll, Gemma Penny, Gospatric Home, halal meat, Hannah Corcoran, hate crimes, history, Home Office, homes, homosexuality, House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, Islamic scholars, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Jayne Ozanne, Jennifer Hampton, Jens Hainmueller, Jeremy Corbyn, John Tomlinson, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Kevin Ladd, Kevin Smith, Kirk Bansak, Labour Force Survey, labour market penalty, Labour Party, Leader of the Opposition, legacies, lesbian gay and bisexual community, Leslie Francis, London, Luke Galen, Meat Science, Methodist Church, Michael Hirst, Muslims, Nabil Khattab, Newman Demographic Survey, non-religion, Northern Ireland, Oliver Scharbrodt, Oxford University Press, Pastoral Research Centre Trust, Pat Pinsent, Patrick Laycock, Peter Williams, Phil Hadley, Phil Zuckerman, police, political party leaders, power, prayer, prime minister, prisoners, purpose in life, Quaker Studies, Quakers, Religious Affiliation, Religious diversity, religious prejudice, religious slaughter, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Respondi, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, same-sex marriage, satisfaction, science, secularization, social inclusion, sociology, spirituality, St Paul's Cathedral, Steve Wotton, supernatural, Theology and Ministry, Theresa May, Toby Knowles, Tony Spencer, Towergate, Universe Media Group, University of Warwick, Westminster Abbey, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, YouGov, Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity Project, Young People’s Values Survey
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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 6, March 2016 features 23 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 6 March 2016 OPINION POLLS Hope Not Hate Hope Not Hate, founded … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, anti-Muslim hatred, Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society, Bible Society, Bolton, British values, Charity Awareness Monitor, Children's Society, Christians, church attendance, Clive Field, ComRes, Conrad Hackett, Daily News and Leader, David Graham, death, Early Day Motions, Easter eggs, Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, England, European Union, Faith schools, force for good, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, gender differences in religion, genocide, Health Survey for England, Hindus, Hope Not Hate, human rights, importance of religion, Independent Press Standards Organisation, Information Centre for Health and Social Care, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, integration, IPSO, Islam, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Jewish charitable giving, Jewish health, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, Jonny Wineberg, Journal of Legislative Studies, London, London Journal, Mary Riso, Mass-Observation, Meaningful Chocolate Company, media, Members of Parliament, mosques, Muslim communities, Muslims, NatCen Social Research, National Foundation for Educational Research, National Survey of Young People’s Well-Being, nfpSynergy, NHS Salford Clinical Commissioning Group, Nick Lowles, Nonconformists, Northern History, ORB International, Parable of the Good Samaritan, Parliamentary Affairs, Parliamentary Questions for Written Answers, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Pew Research Center, places of worship, Pope Francis, Populus, prayer, religion and laws, religious abuse, Religious Affiliation, Religious discrimination, religious festivals, religious tolerance, respect for local religious leaders, Robert Ford, Salford, Sandi Mann, Sikhs, source of identity, spiritual or paranormal phenomena, Stephen Bullivant, strangers, terrorism, terrorist attack, The Sun, The Times, threat to Western civilization, trust in the Church, University of York, violence, visitor attractions, WIN/Gallup International, Yazidis, YouGov
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Advent Pot-Pourri
Correlates of belief The socio-structural and religious correlates of over-time belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, and sin are explored in a new article by Ben Clements published in the advance access edition of Journal of Beliefs … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Social Capital, Religious beliefs, Survey news
Tagged abortion, assisted suicide, Ben Clements, Bible Society, Bookseller, British Crime Survey, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, Christian Research, Christians in Sport, Church of England, Church Urban Fund, crime, debt, employment, European Values Study, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Journal of Religion in Europe, Julian Hargreaves, Labour Force Survey, Muslims, Nabil Khattab, nativity plays, Netmums, New Churches, religious beliefs, religious books, Resonate, Roman Catholics, Ron Johnston, schools, Social Science Journal, sport, Sunday Times, YouGov
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Sacred Texts and Other News
Sacred texts The potential contribution of religious and sacred texts to the school curriculum is explored in new research published by the Bible Society on 20 November 2014. Commissioned from YouGov, it involved online interviews with samples of (a) … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion Online, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged anti-creationism, Bible Society, BRIN, British identity, cathedral friends, Christians, Christmas, church attendance, Church of England, clergy burnout, Co-operative Funeral Care, comets, funeral music, God, hymns, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Lives, Jews, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Journal of Empirical Theology, jubilee, Judith Muskett, Leslie Francis, Mandy Robbins, Martin Charlesworth, Natalie Williams, origins of life on earth, Peter Webster, poverty, religious festivals, religious social capital, sacred texts, schools, Sunday Times, UJIA, United States, YouGov
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Easter Round-Up
Children’s Easter knowledge The Bible Society announced on 17 April 2014 that it had launched a five-day Bible Bedtime Challenge app as an Easter poll showed that children can confuse the Bible with fairy tales and fables. It commissioned … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Autogas, Bible, Bible Society, children, church attendance, ComRes, Creationism, discipleship, Easter, Evangelical Alliance. faith schools, holidays, Jewish Chronicle, OnePoll, ORB International, prayer, religious festivals, religious knowledge, role of religion, Sainsbury's, sex education, Travelodge, WIN/Gallup International, YouGov
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Christmas and Other Themes
The Christmas season always seems to inspire some light-hearted as well as serious research, and our post today includes festive examples of both genres, plus a few other statistical news stories which have come to hand in the past week … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlife, Bible knowledge, Bible Society, businesses, Christmas, Christmas cards, Christmas carols, Church and State, church attendance, Church of England, ComRes, Devil, disestablishment, evolution, fathers, freedom of religion, gender segregation, God, human rights, Jesus Christ, Liberty, nativity, nativity plays, officebroker.com, OnePoll, origin of life on earth, Peter Kellner, Pitney Bowes, politics, Premier Christian Radio, Prospect, religious festivals, Resurrection, Siobhan McAndrew, Sunday Times, The Bible mini-series, The Sun, universities, wise men, YouGov, Your Say Pays
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Muslim and Christian News
For a third week running, Muslims dominate the religious statistical news post-Woolwich, but we also find space for four short items on Christians. ‘Hate preachers’ The brutal murder by two Islamists of Drummer Lee Rigby on the streets of Woolwich … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Gilligan, Bible Society, Britishness, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Census, Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity, children, Church of England Newspaper, comprehensive schools, ComRes, diaconate, Fair Admissions Campaign, Faith schools, government, hate preachers, integration, Islamophobia, Lewis Burton, Methodist Church, migrants, Muslims, Peter Brierley, radicalization, singles, Stephen Jivraj, Sunday Mirror, Sunday Telegraph, Sutton Trust, Tell MAMA, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge
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