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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2019

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 50, November 2019 features 23 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link: No 50 November 2019 … Continue reading →

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2019

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 49, October 2019 features 21 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link: No 49 October 2019 … Continue reading →

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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2017

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 16, January 2017 features 22 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 16 January 2017 OPINION POLLS Faith Research Centre The major polling news of … Continue reading →

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2016

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Clive D. Field

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 →

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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2016

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 10, July 2016 features 14 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 10 July 2016 OPINION POLLS Hope not Hate post-Brexit poll On behalf of … Continue reading →

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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2016

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Clive D. Field

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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Advent Pot-Pourri

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Clive D. Field

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 →

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Sacred Texts and Other News

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Clive D. Field

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 →

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Easter Round-Up

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Clive D. Field

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 →

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Bible Literacy and Other News

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Bible literacy Bible literacy in Britain is falling through the generations, according to research just released by the Bible Society, which has launched a ‘pass it on’ campaign to encourage parents and other family members to ‘pass on’ a Bible … Continue reading →

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