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Tag Archives: gender
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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Pope Francis and Other News
Following on from our previous post, which reported on a major new survey of Catholic opinion, today we summarize recent poll evidence about how Pope Francis is perceived to be getting on by the British public. We also include our … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged academics, Bill Williams, Cathedrals, Christine Ogan, Christmas, church attendance, Church of England, common religion, conventional religion, Elizabeth Poole, Faith schools, Francis effect, gender, Gosforth, higher education, International Communication Gazette, Islamophobia, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Kim Knott, Lars Willnat, Manaf Bashir, Marko Valenta, Mathew Guest, media, Muslims, newspapers, Northlew, Pope Francis, religious festivals, restudies of religion, Robert Song, Roman Catholic Church, Rosemary Pennington, Rural Theology, Sonya Sharma, Steve Bruce, students, Sunday Times, Teemu Taira, television, Theology and Religious Studies UK, Toril Aalberg, YouGov, Zan Strabac
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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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Teaching Christianity and Other News
Today’s round-up of religious news highlights poll data in support of the improved teaching of religious education (RE) in schools and presents a gender breakdown of last week’s vote on women bishops in the Church of England’s General Synod. Teaching … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged BBC Radio 4, benefits, Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, ComRes, Conservative Party, gender, General Synod, Nigel Fancourt, nones, Oxford University Department of Education, Populus, Religious Affiliation, religious education, schools, social welfare, teaching, welfare state, women bishops, YouGov
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Gender Audit Report, Scottish Episcopal Church
The annual meeting of the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church, which is part of the Anglican Communion, took place in Edinburgh between 10 and 12 June. One of the papers under consideration was a Gender Audit Report, presented … Continue reading
Zion’s People: Profile of English Nonconformity
Protestant Nonconformity, formerly known as Religious Dissent and latterly as the Free Churches, has made a major contribution to all walks of British life, not just the religious. The movement had its origins in the puritans and separatists of Elizabethan … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, Measuring religion
Tagged Age, Baptists, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Clive Field, Congregationalists, ethnicity, Free Churches, gender, marital status, Methodists, Nonconformity, occupation, Protestant Nonconformists, Quakers, Religious Society of Friends
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New Church of England statistics
The Church of England published two new sets of statistics on 22 January. The first were its provisional statistics for mission in 2008, covering baptisms (infant, child and adult), thanksgivings (infant and child), confirmations, marriages and blessings, funerals, Easter and … Continue reading
Posted in Measuring religion, Survey news
Tagged Age, church attendance, church membership, Church of England, diversity, ethnic minorities, gender
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