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Tag Archives: European Values Study
Counting Religion in Britain, December 2020
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 63, December 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 63 December 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Covid-19, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion in the Press, Religion Online, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Aliens, Andrew Village, Anna Pless, Anti-Semitism, Archbishop of Canterbury, Ari Paltiel, believing without belonging, Bible, Bible Study Fellowship, Catholic Herald, Christian calendar, Christian country, Christian ethics, Christianity, Christmas, Christmas story, church attendance, church membership, civil service, coronavirus, Covid-19, Daniel Staetsky, Dick Houtman, diversity, Easter, Easter story, environmentalism, European Jewish Demography Unit, European Values Study, Evangelicalism, evolution, ghosts, God, Greg Smith, HM Prison and Probation Service, importance of religion, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos Global Advisor, Ipsos-MORI, Islamophobia, Jesus Christ, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, Joshua Edelman, Journal of Empirical Theology, Kaya Burgess, Labour Party, Langer Research Associates, Leslie Francis, Manchester Metropolitan University, mass attendance, Milan Dinic, Ministry of Defence, mortality, nativity plays, origins of life on earth, Paul Tromp, Peter Brierley, Pew Research Center, Pope, prayer, predictions, prisoners, problem, Religious Affiliation, religious event, religious faith, religious festivals, religious prejudice, Republic of Ireland, Review of Religious Research, rituals, Roman Catholics, Savanta ComRes, science, secular event, spiritual greater power, The Times, UK Church Statistics, vaccination, William Temple Foundation, WordGo, Work Avenue, Yonder, YouGov
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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2019
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 46, July 2019 features 17 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 46 July 2019 … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged active Christians, admired living public figures, Amy Unsworth, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, armed forces, Ben Clements, British Social Attitudes Survey, Cabinet Office, Centre for Media Monitoring, Channel 4, charitable giving, Christian Aid, civil service, climate change, Community Life Survey, Community Security Trust, compatibility with British way of life, ComRes, Conservative Party, Countryside Alliance, Dalai Lama, David Voas, Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport, Department for Education, diet, European Values Study, Faisal Hanif, Faith schools, Hope Not Hate, International Social Survey Programme, Islam, Jeremy Corbyn, Jews, Kantar Public, Labour Party, media, mental health problem, Ministry of Defence, Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, money management, Muslim Council of Britain, National Centre for Social Research, Nick Spencer, ORB International, political party members, Pope Francis, Populus, Religious Affiliation, religious beliefs, religious hate crime, religious prejudice, science, Scotland, Scottish Government, secularization, Steve Bruce, The Times, Theos, volunteering, YouGov
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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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Advent Pot-Pourri
Correlates of belief The socio-structural and religious correlates of over-time belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, and sin are explored in a new article by Ben Clements published in the advance access edition of Journal of Beliefs … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Social Capital, Religious beliefs, Survey news
Tagged abortion, assisted suicide, Ben Clements, Bible Society, Bookseller, British Crime Survey, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, Christian Research, Christians in Sport, Church of England, Church Urban Fund, crime, debt, employment, European Values Study, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Journal of Religion in Europe, Julian Hargreaves, Labour Force Survey, Muslims, Nabil Khattab, nativity plays, Netmums, New Churches, religious beliefs, religious books, Resonate, Roman Catholics, Ron Johnston, schools, Social Science Journal, sport, Sunday Times, YouGov
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Christian affiliation in Britain
Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent pronouncements on the role and status of Christianity in Britain have stimulated public debate, quickly receiving both supporting and dissenting remarks from representatives of faith groups and secular organisations and from media commentators. Pollsters have … Continue reading
Religion and attitudes towards euthanasia in Britain: Evidence from opinion polls and social surveys
The issue of euthanasia or assisted dying formed the basis of one of the 2013 Westminster Faith Debates on religion and personal morality. An accompanying survey of adults in Britain – conducted by YouGov in January 2013 – found that … Continue reading
Gender and Religion and Other News
Today BRIN features the third instalment of findings from the YouGov poll commissioned in connection with the 2013 series of Westminster Faith Debates, plus the usual miscellany of other British religious statistical news. Gender and religion There is little public … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Survey news, visualisation
Tagged Albert Jewell, anti-Muslim incidents, child abuse, Church of England, ComRes, Dress, European Values Study, gender, gender segregation, hymns, image of the Church, Inge Sieben, Islamophobia, Janet Eldred, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, Linda Woodhead, Loek Halman, Marga van Zundert, Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks, Mental Health, Michael Jackson, Michael Lowis, parish level, policies, Pope, Premier Media Group, religious leadership, Research Group of the Christian Council on Ageing, Roman Catholic Church, separate education, teachings and traditions, Tell MAMA, Westminster Faith Debates, women, 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
Attitudes towards Different Religious Groups in Britain: Survey Data Sources
This post highlights some of the survey resources – available for general usage – which allow researchers to examine public views towards religious groups in Britain. The three surveys used are the European Values Study, the Pew Global Attitudes Project surveys, and the British Social Attitudes surveys.
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European Values Study, Wave 4
The dataset for European Values Study (EVS), Wave 4, Great Britain has recently become available at the Economic and Social Data Service as SN 6757. The data also form part of the aggregated 47-country dataset for Wave 4 as SN … Continue reading
