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Tag Archives: Church Commissioners
Counting Religion in Britain, June 2020
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 57, June 2020 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 57 June 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Andrew Village, Annual Population Survey, Anti-Semitism, attendance at religious services, Baptist Union of Great Britain, Ben Clements, Board of Deputies of British Jews, British Journal of Religious Education, Catherine Pepinster, Catholic Voices, Catholics in Britain, charity trustees, Christian-ethos schools, Church Commissioners, church membership, Church of England, Church Times, Common Era, coronavirus, Covid-19, Elaine Howard Eklund, Evangelical Alliance, Health Survey for England, Islamophobia, Jacksons Fencing, Jews, John Clayton, Jonathan Boyd, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Leslie Francis, Lindsay Richards, lockdown, London, meditation, Methodist Church, Methodist Recorder, Michael Hirst, ministry, mortality, NatCen Social Research, Nathan Mladin, National Safeguarding Team, NHS Digital, North East England, Office for National Statistics, ordination of women, Paul Bickley, Peter Hopkins, places of worship, Populus, prayer, Religious Affiliation, religious charities, religious prejudice, religious studies, Robert Thomson, Roman Catholic Church, Savanta ComRes, science, secondary schools, security, Sharan Kaur Mehta, shop opening hours, Siobhan McAndrew, social inclusion, socialization, Sunday trading, Sunday Trading Act 1994, Survation, Tell MAMA, The Tablet, Theos, United Reformed Church, York St John University, YouGov
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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2017
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 20, May 2017 features 27 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 20 May 2017 OPINION POLLS Global Trends, 2017 Results from the second wave … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Semitism, astrology, Ben Clements, Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society, Bible, Bible Reading Fellowship, black Christians, BMG Research, British Election Study Internet Panel, British Politics and Policy, British Religion in Numbers, British Social Attitudes Survey, church attendance, Church Commissioners, Church of England, ComRes, criminal act, Daniele Joly, David Hempton, David Martin, David Walker, discrimination, DJS Research, Donald Trump, Ecclesiastical Insurance, ethnic churchgoers, European Social Survey, European Union Referendum, extremism, Faith in Research, fate, follower of Jesus, funerals, general election, Generation Z, ghosts, Global Trends, God, godparents, good and evil, HOPE, Hugh McLeod, imams, importance of religion, Ipsos-MORI, Islam, Islamic State, Jesus Christ, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Kantar Public UK, Karma, Kate Woodthorpe, Khursheed Wadia, life after death, life on other planets, liking for political parties, local community, Manchester, Michael Hirst, Middle East, ministers, Muslim women, Muslims, nfpSynergy, OnePoll, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Brierley, Pew Global Attitudes Project, places of worship, Pope Francis, Population Space and Place, power, prayer, preaching in English, Ramadan, Religion and the Public Sphere, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, religious nones, Roman Catholics, Routledge, Royal London, Scotland, Scottish Household Survey, secularization, self-assessed religiosity, Siobhan McAndrew, socio-economic deprivation, spiritual dimension in daily life, Stephen Bullivant, Sunday Times, supernatural beliefs, Survation, Talking Jesus, terrorism, The Times, trust in the Church, United States, volunteering, voting, Western Europe, YouGov, young people, youth culture, Youth for Christ
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Things Unseen and Other News
The latest report from Theos heads the list of seven religious statistical news stories today, comprising a further attempt by the think-tank to explore the spiritual hinterland which lays beyond institutional religion and to counter the picture of unrelenting secularization … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Bishops, Britain Yearly Meeting, Christian Research, Church Commissioners, Church of England, clergy, ComRes, CTVC, discrimination, finance, God, Hazelmary Bull, healing, homosexuality, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, John Sawkins, Linda Woodhead, local preachers, Martin Hall, membership, Methodist Church, miracles, office costs, Peter Bull, prayer, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, Quakers, Religious Society of Friends, Scotland, spiritual forces, spirituality, St Luke’s Healthcare for the Clergy, Steve Preddy, Steven Cohen, stress, Supreme Court, Theos, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov
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Eight Shorts
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
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Welcome to 2013
Welcome to 2013! All of us at BRIN wish our readers every success and happiness in the New Year. We thank you for using our website (there have been over 360,000 page views to date). We sincerely hope that not … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged 1960s, Archbishop of Canterbury, Automobile Association, Bishops, Boydell Press, Callum Brown, Christmas carols, Church Commissioners, Church of England, Classic FM, costs, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, demography, Hannah Stuart, Henry Jackson Society, Houriya Ahmed, media, Muslim Council of Britain, number 13, O Holy Night, Populus, public sphere, religious festivals, secularization, superstitions, The Guardian, triskaidekaphobia, vehicle registration plates, women
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Costing the Anglican Episcopate
The office and working costs of the 113 diocesan and suffragan bishops in the Church of England amounted to almost £15,600,000 during the year ending 31 December 2010, 4% more than in 2009, according to a 24-page report released by … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations
Tagged Bishops, Church Commissioners, Church of England, costs, expenditure, finance
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Church Commissioners Announce Results for 2009
Have you ever wondered how faith bodies fund themselves? Although they all publish annual accounts, there has been little systematic academic research into the economics of faith in Britain, one of the rare exceptions being James Nathaniel Wolfe and Michael … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations
Tagged Church Commissioners, Church of England, finance
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