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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2016

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 8, May 2016 features 31 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 8 May 2016 OPINION POLLS Anti-Semitism (1): Attitudes of Jews toward the Labour … Continue reading →

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2015

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 3, December 2015 features 34 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 3 December 2015 OPINION POLLS – GENERAL Religious affiliation Lord Ashcroft has … Continue reading →

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Exploring Religious Data in the British Social Attitudes 2014 Survey

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Ben Clements

The latest British Social Attitudes 2014 survey has recently been released via the UKDS, which holds all of the other surveys in the BSA series (as well as the data having being added to the online British Social Attitudes Information System). This … Continue reading →

Posted in Research note, Survey news, Uncategorized, visualisation | Tagged British Social Attitudes, British Social Attitudes Surveys, British society, Christianity, Christians, church attendance, Church of England, gay rights, group membership, Non-Denominational Christians, Religious Affiliation, religious attendance, religious belonging, religious extremism, Roman Catholics, same-sex marriage, social attitudes, Survey Data | 1 Comment

Socio-Demographic Groups and Religious Affiliation in Britain

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Ben Clements

The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) issued an interesting online press release on the 31st May, entitled ‘Church of England decline has accelerated in past decade’. The press release set out some of the main developments in religious affiliation … Continue reading →

Posted in Research note, Survey news | Tagged Anglicans, Belonging, British Social Attitudes Surveys, NatCen Social Research, Religious affilation, Religious change, Survey Data | 1 Comment

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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Roman Catholics’ Attitudes Towards Homosexuality

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Ben Clements

There has been some media coverage of the deliberations of the Roman Catholic Church at its Extraordinary Synod on the Family held in Rome earlier this month, including in a recent BRIN post. The issue of the Catholic Church’s position on homosexuality … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Religion in public debate, Research note | Tagged British Social Attitudes Surveys, Gallup, gay rights, gays, homosexuality, homosexuals, Pope Benedict XVI, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, same-sex marriage, same-sex relationships, Social Surveys, Survey Data | Leave a comment

Recent Journal Articles and Other News

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Clive D. Field

As well as carrying the usual miscellany of news, this post reports on a selection of recent articles in academic journals which may be of interest to BRIN users. We give a URL for each, in line with our standard … Continue reading →

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Changes in Attendance at Religious Services in Britain

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Ben Clements

This BRIN post takes a historical perspective on religious attendance in Britain, looking at nationally-representative survey data covering the past three decades. Attendance is a common indicator of what sociologists of religion term ‘behaving’, often analysed alongside religious ‘belonging’ and … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, Research note, Survey news | Tagged Age, Behaving, Belonging, British Social Attitudes Surveys, church attendance, religious attendance, Religious change, Survey Data | 2 Comments

Religion, Identity, and Other Issues

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Church of England and Britishness Although only a tiny minority attends its services, and very many are critical of its stance on diversity issues, the majority of Britons (51%) still consider the Church of England to be important in defining … Continue reading →

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Religious Vote and Other News

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Is there a religious vote? A religious vote continues to exist in Britain, particularly as regards disproportionate Anglican and Jewish preferences for the Conservative Party and Catholic and Muslim preferences for the Labour Party. However, the association between religion and … Continue reading →

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