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Counting Religion in Britain, February 2019

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Clive D. Field

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 →

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2017

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 26, November 2017 features 23 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 26 November 2017 OPINION POLLS Good life What makes for a good life in … Continue reading →

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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2017

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 19, April 2017 features 27 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 19 April 2017 OPINION POLLS Lenten abstinence and Easter activities Just under one-fifth … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Good Death and Other News

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Good death Time was when religion was the cardinal attribute of a ‘good death’. But no more, it seems, according to a ComRes survey for the National Council for Palliative Care published on 18 May 2015, for which 2,016 … Continue reading →

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Early May News Round-Up

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Ritually-slaughtered meat A renewed spate of media reports about supermarkets and restaurants selling their customers halal products without clearly labelling them as such has prompted The Sun to commission YouGov to run another survey of public opinion on the … Continue reading →

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Welfare Reform and Other News

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Welfare reform (1) Recent attacks by church leaders from several denominations on the Coalition Government’s welfare and benefits reform programme seem to be giving the British public pause for thought, according to a YouGov poll for today’s edition of The … Continue reading →

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Politico-Religious News

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Today’s post (the 600th on BRIN in just over three years) examines three newly-released surveys which explore the intersection between religion and political issues. Same-sex marriage The Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill for England and Wales has now completed the Committee … Continue reading →

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Anti-Conservative Vote

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Religion is the single most powerful predictor (among eight factors) of an individual’s likelihood to say that they would never vote Conservative, with 44% of those with no faith rejecting the possibility of supporting the Tories, compared with 35% of … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged Christians, Conservative Party, David Cameron, ethnic minorities, Ethnic Minority British Election Study, Hindus, Labour Party, Lord Ashcroft, Muslims, politics, Sikhs, voting | Leave a comment

Citizenship Survey Topic Reports, 2009/10

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Clive D. Field

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 →

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