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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 99, December 2023 features nineteen short articles on 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, Covid-19, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Education, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged Alana Harris, Alternative beliefs, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, attendance at religious services, Aymen Habib, Ben Roberts, Carli Lessof, cathedral studies, Catholic Directory, Catholic Record Society, Catholic Union, census of population, charitable giving, Christmas, Christmas carols, Christmas traditions, Christmas tree, Church of England, clairvoyance, clergy and priests, closure of places of worship, Community Security Trust, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, cost of living crisis, Covid-19, England, Entretiens de Royaumont, ethnicity, Eurotrack, evidence for alien life, evolution, Fern Elsdon-Baker, Gaza, ghosts, Global Student Living Index, Hamas, Honor Gray, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos, Ipsos Veracity Index, Islamophobia, Islamophobic incidents, Israel, Israel-Hamas conflict, James Riley, Jewish Leadership Council, Jewish university students, Jews, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Kate Gosschalk, Laura Piggott, Leslie Francis, Muslim Charities Forum, Muslims, National Jewish Identity Survey, nativity display at home, nfpResearch, Northern Ireland, Office for National Statistics, Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Oxford University Press, Palestine, Palestinians, Perils of Perception, predictions, professions, Public Opinions and Social Trends, Religious Affiliation, religious census, religious festivals, religious prejudice, Republic of Ireland, rites of passage, Roman Catholics, Savanta, science and religion, Scotland, Sikhs, Stephen Parker, Survation, Tell MAMA, Templeton Religion Trust, Timothy Kinnear, trust to tell the truth, University of Birmingham, volunteering, Wales, wellbeing, witchcraft, Yonder, YouGov | Leave a comment

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 →

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 | 1 Comment

Bible Versus Darwin and Other News

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Bible versus Darwin Given a list of 30 books, and invited to select three which they considered to be most valuable to humanity (as opposed to having read or enjoyed), 37% of the 2,044 adult Britons recently questioned by … Continue reading →

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Mid-Summer Miscellany

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Burka The burka (and thus Islam) has been in the news again during the past week, partly because the European Court of Human Rights has upheld France’s ban on wearing the full face-veil in public (a similar ban also … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Association of Convenience Stores, Burka, Catholic Directory, church, clergy, Clive Field, ComRes, Contemporary British History, crime, Islamophobia, Janine McKenna, jihad, Kathryn Skivington, Muslims, Opinium Research, Pastoral Research Centre, religious authority, religious dress, religious hatred, Roman Catholic Church, Scotland, Scottish Government Social Research, sectarianism, secularization, Sunday Times, Sunday trading, Tony Spencer, YouGov | 1 Comment

Eight Shorts

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Eight short items of statistical news feature in today’s second post, clearing a small backlog which has built up during a week’s absence from the desk. Hate crime The overwhelming majority of the British public (84%) consider that an attack … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Catholic Directory, Christian Research, Christian Resources Exhibitions International, Church Commissioners, church music, Church of England, church organs, discrimination, hate crime, Ipsos-MORI, James Hinton, King's College London, Latin Mass Society, Mass-Observation, NatCen, Really, Resonate, Roman Catholic Church, Royal Statistical Society, statistics, stress, Sundays, YouGov | Leave a comment

Catholic Directory, 2012

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Pope Benedict XVI’s state and pastoral visit to Britain from 16 to 19 September 2010 seems to have done little to improve the religious practice of English and Welsh Roman Catholics, to judge by average weekly mass attendance over four weekends … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations | Tagged Catholic Directory, estimated Catholic population, mass attendance, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church, Tony Spencer | 1 Comment

Counting Catholics

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

Andrew Brown of the Guardian has just written a very interesting article on the problems of calculating the size of the Catholic community. The Catholic Church defines the Catholic community as those people who have been baptised living within England and Wales. Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Measuring religion, Religion in the Press | Tagged Alan Gilbert, Andrew Brown, baptisms, Catholic Directory, Churches and Churchgoers, Lee Horsley, Pastoral Research Centre, Peter Brierley, religious trends, Robert Currie, Roman Catholics, Tony Spencer | 2 Comments

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