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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2018

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 35, August 2018 features 22 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 35 August 2018 OPINION POLLS Boris Johnson and the burka The debate over the … Continue reading →

Counting Religion in Britain, December 2016

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 15, December 2016 features 37 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: no-15-december-2016 OPINION POLLS Importance of Christmas More than nine in ten Britons celebrate Christmas, … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged agnostics, Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, Anglican Communion, atheists, Ben Clements, Ben Ryan, British Humanist Association, British Journal of Sociology, British Religion in Numbers, British Social Attitudes Survey, Casey Review, Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, Catholicity, Charity Awareness Monitor, child abuse, Christian funders, Christianity, Christmas, Christmas Day, church, church attendance, Church of England, clergy, collective worship, David Goodhart, David Goodhew, David Voas, Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Education, Edinburgh, Education Policy Institute, educational attainment, England, equality, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Eurobarometer, European Commission, Faith schools, Free Churches, funerals, God, Hannah Fry, human rights, humanism, Humanist ceremonies, ICM Unlimited, importance of religion, integration, International Social Survey Program, Ipsos, Ipsos-MORI, Islam, Islamophobia, Jesus Christ, Jon Andrews, Justin Humphreys, Kathryn Kinmond, Khadijah Elshayyal, Khalid Mahmood, Labour Party, Lisa Oakley, London, Louise Casey, Martyn Frampton, mathematics, Mor Dioum, Muslims, National Working Group on Child Abuse Linked to Faith or Belief, Nationwide Current Accounts, nfpSynergy, Nick Spencer, non-churchgoers, Office for National Statistics, OnePoll, ONS Opinions Survey, parents, Perils of Perception, Peter Catterall, Peter Gries, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Pew Research Center, Policy Exchange, politics, Politics and Religion, Primitive Methodism, public policy, Rebecca Johnes, Religious Affiliation, religious census, religious festivals, religious nones, religious polarization, religious socialization, Research by Design, rites of passage, Roman Catholic Church, Sandy Calder, Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, schools, Scotland, Scottish Health Survey, secularization, self-assessed religiosity, shopping, spiritual power, Stefano Bonino, Steve Bruce, terrorism, The Times, Theos, Thomas Oleron Evans, TNS, trust, truth, Veracity Index, Wales, Will Bissett, YouGov | 1 Comment

Secularizing Selfhood and Other News

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Secularizing selfhood I recently gave a presentation at the Rethinking Modern British Studies conference at the University of Birmingham, which was loosely devoted to an exploration of themes contained in a previous working paper from the Modern British Studies … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged A Call to Action, ACTA, Andrew Hornsby-Smith, Andrew McWilliam, Andy Biggs, baptisms, Baroness Berridge, Bob Jackson, christenings, church growth, Church of England, church-based social action, Clive Field, Department for Education, ethnic minorities, family, fate, horoscopes, hospital chaplaincy, House of Lords, Jubilee Plus, marriage, Miles Jarvis, parent and toddler groups, Rachel Green, Religiosity, religious education teachers, Roman Catholic Church, saliency of religion, selfhood, sex, star signs, Sunday trading, The Independent, YouGov | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Historical studies, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged abortion, Action for Happiness, BBC, Ben Clements, bibliometrics, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Britishness, Buddhism, census of population, Church of England, David Gellner, Department for Education, European Values Studies, happiness, Hinduism, InFuse, multiple religious identities, Nepalis, Opinion Research Centre, personal identity, Religion [journal], Religious Affiliation, religious education, religious leadership, religious newspapers, religious/spiritual life, Sociology [journal], Sondra Hausner, Steven Engler, Sunday Times, teachers, The Tablet, The Times, YouGov | Leave a comment

Prayer and Other News

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Today’s post features eight religious statistical news stories, leading on an analysis by BRIN of the answers to one of the questions in the latest round of the European Social Survey, whose results have just been released. Prayer Data from … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged adoption, Bar Council, barristers, Bonfire Night, Christian Research, Christmas carols, Department for Education, effigies, European Social Survey, Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family, faith tourism, family, Ipsos-MORI, Kindred, Muslims, nativity plays, niqab, OnePoll, Peter Brierley, prayer, religious dress, religious festivals, religious trends, Roman Catholic Church, The Times, Wales, Work Research, YouGov | Leave a comment

Inclusivity of Faith Schools

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Clive D. Field

‘England’s faith state schools are on average failing to mirror their local communities by shunning the poorest pupils in their area, an analysis by The Guardian of the latest government figures shows’, Simon Rogers wrote on the newspaper’s datablog on … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press | Tagged Church of England schools, Department for Education, Faith schools, free school meals, inclusivity, Jessica Shepherd, Roman Catholic schools, Simon Rogers, The Guardian | Leave a comment

Catholic School Statistics, 2011

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Clive D. Field

A higher proportion of pupils at Roman Catholic schools come from the 10% most deprived areas than those attending English schools as a whole, the Catholic Education Service for England and Wales (CESEW) claimed in a press release on 30 … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations | Tagged Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, Catholicity, Department for Education, Roman Catholics, schools | 2 Comments

English Baccalaureate and Faith Schools

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Clive D. Field

A Government press release on 31 August trumpeted that its controversial introduction of the English Baccalaureate (or eBacc) has had an immediate impact on reversing the historic decline in pupils taking ‘traditional’ or more ‘academic’ GCSE subjects. And nowhere does … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Department for Education, EBacc, English Baccalaureate, Faith schools, GCSEs, General Certificate of Secondary Education, NatCen, National Centre for Social Research, religious education, religious studies, Sam Clemens | Leave a comment

Participation in Higher Education and Religion

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Clive D. Field

‘Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs more likely to go to university than their Christian classmates’, proclaimed the headline to Richard Vaughan’s article in The TES for 22 July 2011. The story was subsequently picked up by the Daily Telegraph on 23 … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged A Levels, Christians, Department for Education, educational attainment, ethnicity, GCSEs, higher education, Hindus, Longitudinal Study of Young People in England, LSYPE, Muslims, Richard Vaughan, sex, Sikhs, Steve Strand, TES, Times Educational Supplement | Leave a comment

School Workforce in England

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Just 32% of teachers of religious education in publicly funded secondary schools in England have a degree in a relevant subject, 13% have another relevant post-A Level qualification, but 55% have no relevant post-A Level qualification. This is according to … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data | Tagged Department for Education, educational qualifications, religious education, School Workforce Census, schoolteachers | Leave a comment

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