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Tag Archives: conspiracy theories
Counting Religion in Britain, October 2020
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 61, October 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 61 October 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Education, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news
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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2020
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 56, May 2020 features 16 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 56 May 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged Andrew Village, Angels, anxiety, attack on western values, attendance at religious services, Ben Clements, Bible, British Election Study, Campaign against Living Miserably, Catholic Times, Catholic Universe, Census Order (England and Wales), children, Christian Aid, Church of England, Church Times, church-based activities, collapse the economy, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Covid-19, Daniel Freeman, death or grief, destroy religion, ethnic minorities, Evangelical Alliance, faith leaders, funerals, general elections, globalists, God, HOPE Together, Hospice UK, Jains, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Leslie Francis, life after death, lockdown, mass attendance, Mater Dei Centre for Catholic Education, meditation, miracles, moral guidance, mortality, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslims, National Churches Trust, pandemic, parents, Populus, prayer, Psychological Medicine, Religious Affiliation, religious beliefs, religious broadcasting, religious census, religious faith, religious leaders, religious music, religious services, religious texts, religious workers, reopening of churches, rites of passage, Roman Catholic Church, Savanta ComRes, ScotCen Social Research, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, Sikh Network, Sikhs, Smoking, spiritual activities, spiritual beliefs, spiritual leadership, spirituality, Stephen Bullivant, Stephen Pollard, stress, Talking Toddlers, Tearfund, The Tablet, understanding of spiritual matters, voting, Word on Fire, York St John University, YouGov
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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2020
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 55, April 2020 features 13 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 55 April 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged Andrew Norfolk, Anglo-Catholic churches, Ben Clements, black and minority ethnic communities, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Catholic Herald, census of population, Charity Awareness Monitor, Church of England, Church Times, churchgoing, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Covid-19, David Katz, ethnicity, FutureFirst, horoscopes and star signs, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, Jews, John Tomlinson, Jonathan Boyd, Leslie Francis, Mark Griffiths, mass attendance, Ministry of Justice, Miriam Partington, mortality, Muslims, New Statesman, nfpSynergy, Office for National Statistics, Opinium Research, prediction, prisoners, Religion Media Centre, Religious Affiliation, religious marriages, religious press, religious revival, retired clergy, Richard Webber, rites of passage, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, Sacristy Press, Savanta ComRes, Scottish Government, Sebastian Shehadi, Sikh Federation UK, Sikhs, Simon Rocker, The Times, Tony Neal, Trevor Phillips, trust in the Church, Wales
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Counting Religion in Britain, February 2019
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 41, February 2019 features 20 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 41 February 2019 OPINION … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Amanda Dawn Aspland, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, atheism, banking system, British citizenship, Buddhism, Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, Charles Darwin, Christian conferences, Christianity, Church Army Research Unit, Community Security Trust, compatibility with UK values, ComRes, Conservative Party, conspiracy theories, Daniel Staetsky, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Douglas Hall, Electoral Studies, ethnic minorities, evolution, extremism, familiarity with basic teachings, favourable/unfavourable opinion, Food Standards Agency, gender balance, general election, Gill Hall, global threats, halal, Hinduism, Hope Not Hate, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, inter-religious engagement, inter-religious marriage, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Jennie Formby, Jeremy Corbyn, Jewish Labour Movement, Jewish people, Judaism, Kantar Public UK, L&Q, Labour Party, London, Messy Church, Muslim Council of Elders, National Faith and Sexuality Survey, Nick Lowles, Nicole Martin, no go areas, Origin of Species, Ozanne Foundation, Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Populus, Project 3:28, prosecution, Puffin Books, Religious Affiliation, religious education, religious prejudice, religious slaughter of animals, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, schools and colleges, sexual orientation, Shamima Begum, Sharia law, shechita, Sikhism, St Paul's Institute, Survation, Tania ap Sion, voting, William Deringer, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge
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Counting Religion in Britain, September 2018
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 36, September 2018 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 36 September 2018 OPINION … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Organisational data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Alice Sullivan, Anthony-Paul Cooper, Anti-Semitism, Archbishop of Canterbury, Atlantic Books, BBC Local Radio, Bible, BMG Research, Bobby Duffy, Brexit, British Cohort Study, British Social Attitudes Survey, Carl Cullinane, Church in Wales, Church of England, Church Times, ComRes, Conservative Party, conspiracy theories, David Goodhew, desecularization, educational attainment, emigration, Faith schools, Francis Green, gender, George Ploubidis, Gerard Batten, God, Greg Smith, horoscopes, hospital patients, Huffington Post UK, Ipsos, Isabella Kasselstrand, Islamophobia, Jeremy Corbyn, Jesus Christ, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, Jews, Justin Welby, Labour against Antisemitism, Labour Party, Liberal Democrat Party, Linda Woodhead, London, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, miracles, Muslims, Oxford Review of Education, Oxford University Press, parents, Perils of Perception, Peter Selby, politics, Rebecca Montacute, Religious Affiliation, religious education, religious prejudice, Richard Wiggins, Routledge, Samantha Parsons, school subjects, Scotland, Scottish Affairs, secularization, Steve Bruce, Survation, Sutton Trust, The Times, Theresa May, Timmy Huynh, United Kingdom Independence Party, Vince Cable, YouGov
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Atheism and Other News
Atheism Two-fifths (42%) of Britons now declare that they have no religion, and the plurality (45%) of these regard themselves as atheists, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by and published in The Times on 12 February 2015, for … Continue reading
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Tagged air strikes, Aliens, All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism, Anti-Semitism, atheism, Bethany Eckley, census of population, Church Action on Poverty, church attendance, church growth, Church of England, Church Urban Fund, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, clergy, ComRes, conspiracy theories, David Goodhew, David Voas, Ed Miliband, ground troops, Iraq, Islamic State, Israel, Jews, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslims, Nick Clegg, politics, Populus, practising Christians, religious census, rural Church, Sharia law, social action, Stephen Fry, Sundas Ali, Sunday Times, The Times, Theos, Tom Sefton, vision for society, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge
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Sundays, Aliens and the Olympics
Sundays, aliens and the Olympics are just three of the topics covered in research reports which have reached the BRIN in-tray over the last couple of days. Needless to say, they are not necessarily causally interconnected! Here are some of … Continue reading