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Tag Archives: extremism
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, July 2017
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 22, July 2017 features 12 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 22 July 2017 OPINION POLLS Trust in religious figures Only a minority (22%) of … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitic crimes, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, Be Reasonable, Ben Clements, Board of Deputies of British Jews, British Election Study, British values, Campaign against Antisemitism, Charity Awareness Monitor, civil service, Community Security Trust, ComRes, Dalai Lama, Donatella Casale Mashiah, Economic and Social Research Council, Evangelical Alliance, extremism, extremist figures, Freedom of Information Act, GlobeScan, influence in the world, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Jesus Christ, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, Muslims, negative stereotypes, nfpSynergy, Populus, Religious Affiliation, ScotCen Social Research, Scotland, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, senior religious figures, Survation, synagogue membership, trust, University of Maryland, Wales, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge
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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2017
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 20, May 2017 features 27 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 20 May 2017 OPINION POLLS Global Trends, 2017 Results from the second wave … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Semitism, astrology, Ben Clements, Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society, Bible, Bible Reading Fellowship, black Christians, BMG Research, British Election Study Internet Panel, British Politics and Policy, British Religion in Numbers, British Social Attitudes Survey, church attendance, Church Commissioners, Church of England, ComRes, criminal act, Daniele Joly, David Hempton, David Martin, David Walker, discrimination, DJS Research, Donald Trump, Ecclesiastical Insurance, ethnic churchgoers, European Social Survey, European Union Referendum, extremism, Faith in Research, fate, follower of Jesus, funerals, general election, Generation Z, ghosts, Global Trends, God, godparents, good and evil, HOPE, Hugh McLeod, imams, importance of religion, Ipsos-MORI, Islam, Islamic State, Jesus Christ, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Kantar Public UK, Karma, Kate Woodthorpe, Khursheed Wadia, life after death, life on other planets, liking for political parties, local community, Manchester, Michael Hirst, Middle East, ministers, Muslim women, Muslims, nfpSynergy, OnePoll, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Brierley, Pew Global Attitudes Project, places of worship, Pope Francis, Population Space and Place, power, prayer, preaching in English, Ramadan, Religion and the Public Sphere, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, religious nones, Roman Catholics, Routledge, Royal London, Scotland, Scottish Household Survey, secularization, self-assessed religiosity, Siobhan McAndrew, socio-economic deprivation, spiritual dimension in daily life, Stephen Bullivant, Sunday Times, supernatural beliefs, Survation, Talking Jesus, terrorism, The Times, trust in the Church, United States, volunteering, voting, Western Europe, YouGov, young people, youth culture, Youth for Christ
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Terrorist Threats
Despite renewed media preoccupation with far-right organizations in Britain, following revelations of links between them and Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the recent outrages in Norway, many Britons still view ‘Islamic terrorism’ as the greater problem, even though two-thirds also … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Politics, Survey news
Tagged extremism, far right, Islamic terrorism, police, security services, Sunday Times, YouGov
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Muslim-Western Tensions – British Experiences
‘Muslim and Western publics continue to see relations between them as generally bad, with both sides holding negative stereotypes of the other.’ However, there has been ‘somewhat of a thaw in the U.S. and Europe compared with five years ago’. … Continue reading
Posted in Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Semitism, Britishness, Christianophobia, Christians, economic prosperity, extremism, integration, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamophobia, Jews, Muslims, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Princeton Survey Research Associates International, religious prejudice, violence
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Religious Education and the English Baccalaureate
The campaign (RE.ACT) to persuade the Coalition Government to change its mind about excluding GCSE Religious Education (RE) from the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) in secondary schools hotted up on 24 June with the simultaneous publication of two new surveys accompanied … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged cohesion, ComRes, EBacc, English Baccalaureate, extremism, fundamentalism, GCSE, government, intolerance, National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, NATRE, politics, Premier Christian Media, religious education, school league tables, schools, YouGov
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Searchlight on Religion
A major new source of public opinion data on religion and inter-faith relations has just become available in the form of a Populus poll for Searchlight Educational Trust. The survey is of unusual importance in terms of the number of … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged Christians, church attendance, English nationalism, extremism, force for good, freedom of speech, Hindus, importance of religion, inter-faith relations, Islam, Islamophobia, Jews, legislation, mosques, multiculturalism, Muslims, personal identity, politics, Populus, religious abuse, Religious Affiliation, religious leaders, religious prejudice, Searchlight Educational Trust, Sikhs, violence
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Muslims in Prison
In December 2008 there were 9,975 Muslim prisoners in England and Wales, equivalent to 12% of the prison population. This represented a considerable increase on the 5% in 1994 and 8% in 2004 and was more than four times the … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Survey news
Tagged ethnicity, extremism, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons, Muslims, prison, prisoners, terrorism
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Inspired by Muhammad Campaign
Existing negative stereotypes of Islam and Muslims in Britain are largely confirmed in an opinion poll released to coincide with the launch on 7 June of the Exploring Islam Foundation’s Inspired by Muhammad advertising campaign. The campaign is designed to … Continue reading
