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Tag Archives: Civic Engagement
Mid-Summer Miscellany
Christian voters: post-election A ComRes poll for Tearfund published on 17 June 2015, and conducted online between 14 and 17 May, revealed details of how 1,507 practising (churchgoing) UK Christians had engaged with the 2015 general election on 7 … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged BMEs, Bright Blue, church attendance, church growth, Church of Scotland, Civic Engagement, ComRes, David Voas, Ethnic Minority British Election Survey, European Sociological Review, European Values Study, football matches, general election, Geoff Knott, Immigration, Ingrid Storm, Islamic Relief, Islamophobia, Jubilee Plus, Loek Halman, Mark Littler, Matthew Feldman, Muslims, National Church and Social Action Surveys, Neil Davidson, Nienke Moor, OnePoll, practising Christians, Ramadan, religious freedom, religious prejudice, religiously aggravated offending, Scotland, sectarianism, secularization, Social Capital, Stefanie Doebler, Sunday Times, Survation, Tearfund, Teesside University, Tell MAMA, voting, Wil Arts, YouGov
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Faithful Citizens
‘Religious citizens in the UK are more likely to be civically engaged and politically active than their non-religious counterparts. They are also more likely to hold progressive political values on a number of important political and economic questions at the … Continue reading
Citizenship Survey Topic Reports, 2009/10
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) released three topic reports on the Citizenship Survey on 21 December, the first such publications for fifteen months. They can be accessed at: http://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/research/citizenshipsurvey/recentreports/ The documents relate to the Citizenship Survey undertaken … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged charitable giving, Citizenship Survey, Civic Engagement, community action, community cohesion, community spirit, Department for Communities and Local Government, equalities, ethnic minorities, freedom of religion, friends, government, influence of religion, Ipsos-MORI, Muslims, physical attack, places of worship, protection of religious rights, racial prejudice, Religious Affiliation, Religious discrimination, religious harassment, Religious Practice, religious prejudice, respect, social mixing, TNS-BMRB, volunteering
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Farewell to the Citizenship Survey
Headline findings from the 2010-11 Citizenship Survey for England and Wales were published by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 22 September 2011 in the form of Cohesion Research Statistical Release No. 16, comprising a textual report and … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news
Tagged Belonging, Britishness, Citizenship Survey, Civic Engagement, cohesion, decisions, Department for Communities and Local Government, Home Office, Ipsos-MORI, neighbourhod, places of worship, religious harassment, religious prejudice, social mixing, TNS-BMRB, violence, volunteering
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Religion and Politics among Ethnic Minorities in Britain
The Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted at the last general election thanks to the generous support of the ESRC contains a plethora of questions on religious belonging and practices of the five largest ethnic minority groups in Britain. The EMBES team are currently working on a paper concerning how the religious involvement of minorities impact on political behaviour and attitudes. We are welcoming this chance to share with the BRIN audience some of our preliminary findings. Continue reading
Latest Cohesion Research
Religious prejudice may be diminishing, and community cohesion increasing, according to the latest statistics from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) Citizenship Survey, released on 13 January. The data relate to April-September 2010, the first two quarters of … Continue reading
Citizenship and Faith
On 29 April the Department for Communities and Local Government released two further topic reports from the 2008-09 Citizenship Survey, relating respectively to empowered communities and to volunteering and charitable giving. They are available to download from: http://www.communities.gov.uk/corporate/researchandstatistics/statistics/ The Citizenship … Continue reading
The British Social Attitudes Survey 2008 (part II)
Just to clarify, part II refers to this being our second post on the 2008 BSA, rather than the survey having two parts. The excellent news is that the dataset has been published online this week, and it’s fair to … Continue reading
Posted in Measuring religion, Survey news
Tagged Bioethical Attitudes, British Social Attitudes Survey, Civic Engagement, David Campbell, David Voas, Denmark, ESDS, Harvard, Intergenerational Transmission, Ireland, ISSP, Manchester, NatCen, National Identity, NORFACE, Northern Ireland, Notre Dame, Political Identity, Political Sociology, Relemerge, Religiosity, Religious Affiliation, Religious Identity, Robert Putnam, Social Capital, Templeton, The Netherlands, US
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