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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2020
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 61, October 2020 features 23 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 61 October 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Covid-19, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Education, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Academy schools, Aisha Phoenix, Aliens, Alison Scott-Baumann, Andrew Village, Anti-Semitism, Baptist Times, Baptist Union, black Christians, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Bonfire Night, Carli Lessof, Carmel Murphy, Chine McDonald, Christian Aid, Christmas, church attendance, church buildings, Church of England, Church Times, clergy, climate change, climate justice, communal worship, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Covid-19, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Daniel Staetsky, David Graham, David Lawrence, Dom Llewellyn, economic and social value, economic disadvantage, emotional and psychological wellbeing, England and Wales, Equality and Human Rights Commission, European Jewish Demography Unit, face masks, gift-giving, Gregory Davis, Halloween, Hanbury Strategy, happiness, Hassidic communities, hate crime, holidays, Home Office, Hope Not Hate, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos Global Advisor, Ipsos-MORI, Islam, Islamophobia, Jeremy Corbyn, Jews, Joe Ware, Jonathan Boyd, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, Laurence Lovat, Leslie Francis, Lindsey Donoghue, Litvish communities, Living Ministry, Liz Graveling, lockdown, Mathew Guest, mental wellbeing, Mike Lowe, mortality, Muslims, National Churches Trust, National Secular Society, New Year, Oxford University Press, police, QAnon, racism and racial inequality, Religion Media Centre, Religious Affiliation, religious festivals, religious or spiritual wellbeing, religious prejudice, residential segregation, rites of passage, Samaritan’s Purse UK, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, satanic cults, Savanta ComRes, secularization, Sergio DellaPergola, Shlomit Flint Ashery, shop opening hours, Shuruq Naguib, social action, Springer, State of Life, statistics for mission, Steve Bruce, Strictly Orthodox Jews, Sunday trading, universities, University College London, wellbeing and flourishing, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge, YourNeighbour
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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2018
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 37, October 2018 features 18 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 37 October 2018 OPINION … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Organisational data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged abortion, active in local church, Andrew Village, Anne Power, Anti-Semitism, attendance at religious services, Bert Provan, Bible, BICOM, British Israel Communications and Research Centre, Cathedrals, Christians against Poverty, Church in Wales, Church of England, Church of England Newspaper, Church Times, churchgoers, clergy burnout, climate change, Clive Field, Co-operative Funeralcare, ComRes, death, discrimination, Eleanor Benton, England, Equality and Human Rights Commission, evolution, funeral, hate crimes, Home Office, homosexuality, Islamophobia, Jeremy Corbyn, Jesus Christ, John Payne, Kantar Public UK, Laura Lane, Leslie Francis, Ligonier Ministries, LSE Housing and Communities, MEND, Methodists, mocking religion, mosques, Muslim Engagement and Development, Muslims, National Churches Trust, National Survey for Wales, Office for National Statistics, Pew Global Attitudes Survey, politics, Populus, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, Religion and Global Society, Religious Affiliation, religious equality, religious prejudice, Review of Religious Research, Rural Theology, Scotland, sin, social science, Steve Bruce, Sylvia Baker, theology, visiting churches, voting, Wales, YouGov
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Counting Religion in Britain, February 2018
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 29, February 2018 features 18 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 29 February 2018 OPINION POLLS Female suffrage anniversary To commemorate the then impending … Continue reading
Posted in Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged Amazon, Ann Casson, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, Baptist ministers, Baptist Quarterly, BBC Radio 5 Live, Billy Graham, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Burka, Christian-ethos schools, Christine Brewster, Church House Publishing, Church of England, Church Urban Fund, church-based social action, Community Security Trust, ComRes, contraceptive pill, Core Issues Trust, Crime Survey for England and Wales, David Lankshear, disestablishment, disrespect, Emma Eccles, Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity, Harry Drake, hate speech, Heather Buckingham, Home Office, homosexuality, Immigration, Islam, Islamophobia, Kantar Public, Lent, Leslie Francis, Lucy Moor, marriages, Mental Health Religion and Culture, Ministry of Justice, mosques, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslims, National Health Service, Office for National Statistics, Patrick Laycock, Paul Beasley-Murray, Populus, Prospect, psychological type scales, reading habits, Reform, Religious Affiliation, religious festivals, religious figures, religious prejudice, religious studies, secondary schools, Silvia Sim, Siobhan McAndrew, spiritual development, suffrage, Syria, Tom Owton, Tom Sefton, Trevor Cooling, University of Bristol, University of Essex, University of Strathclyde, University of Texas, Voices of the Silenced, vote, Vue Piccadilly, Wealth and Assets Survey, Wing Chan, women, YouGov
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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 13, October 2016 features 29 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: no-13-october-2016 OPINION POLLS Desert island Bibles The well-known figures featured on Desert Island … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Measuring religion, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Abby Day, Anglican Communion, Anglican identities, Anti-Semitism, Ashers Bakery, Ashgate, Asma Mustafa, asylum seekers, Awal Fuseini, Baptist Assembly, BBC, Ben Clements, Bible, Bible Society, BMG Research, Brill, cake, Catholic Directory, Christian Churches, Christian Legacy, Christian Resources Exhibitions, Church and Media Network, Church of England, churchgoing, clergy, Clive Field, ComRes, consumers, convent schools, Daily Express, deprivation, Desert Island Discs, discrimination, Dominik Hangartner, Elisabeth Arweck, Emma Shackle, ESRC Party Members Project, ethno-religious groups, evil spirits, exorcism, Frank Pasquale, Gallup Poll, Gemma Penny, Gospatric Home, halal meat, Hannah Corcoran, hate crimes, history, Home Office, homes, homosexuality, House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, Islamic scholars, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Jayne Ozanne, Jennifer Hampton, Jens Hainmueller, Jeremy Corbyn, John Tomlinson, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Kevin Ladd, Kevin Smith, Kirk Bansak, Labour Force Survey, labour market penalty, Labour Party, Leader of the Opposition, legacies, lesbian gay and bisexual community, Leslie Francis, London, Luke Galen, Meat Science, Methodist Church, Michael Hirst, Muslims, Nabil Khattab, Newman Demographic Survey, non-religion, Northern Ireland, Oliver Scharbrodt, Oxford University Press, Pastoral Research Centre Trust, Pat Pinsent, Patrick Laycock, Peter Williams, Phil Hadley, Phil Zuckerman, police, political party leaders, power, prayer, prime minister, prisoners, purpose in life, Quaker Studies, Quakers, Religious Affiliation, Religious diversity, religious prejudice, religious slaughter, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Respondi, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, same-sex marriage, satisfaction, science, secularization, social inclusion, sociology, spirituality, St Paul's Cathedral, Steve Wotton, supernatural, Theology and Ministry, Theresa May, Toby Knowles, Tony Spencer, Towergate, Universe Media Group, University of Warwick, Westminster Abbey, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, YouGov, Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity Project, Young People’s Values Survey
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Cost of Dying and Other News
Cost of dying Insurance company SunLife released the report of its ninth annual survey of the cost of dying on 13 October 2015. It was based on interviews conducted by YouGov, online on 8-20 May 2015 among 1,507 UK … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged Baha'is, Baptist Union, China, Christine Brewster, church attendance, church growth, church membership, Church of England, churches, Churches Trust for Cumbria, churchmanship, clergy fees, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Cumbria, Dalai Lama, Daniel Staetsky, Free Tibet Campaign, funerals, Gemma Penny, Home Office, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, Journal of Religious History, Leslie Francis, Mandy Robbins, Mental Health Religion and Culture, Methodist Church, Ministry of Justice, Muslims, orthodox Jews, personality differences, Peter Smith, prisoners, psychological well-being, religious hate crimes, religious prejudice, Rural Theology, SunLife, Tibet, undergraduate students, United Reformed Church, Wales, YouGov
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Catholic Family and Other News
Catholic family The Roman Catholic Church’s fortnight-long Extraordinary Synod on the Family ends in Rome today. It has attracted surprisingly little attention in the general (non-Catholic) British media, although its outcomes are now being reported as a victory for … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news
Tagged atheism, Ben Clements, British Election Study, Byron Creese, census of population, Christian Today, ComRes, David Voas, Deborah Lader, equality, Extraordinary Synod on the Family, hate crimes, Home Office, Independent on Sunday, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, Islamic State, Islamism, jihadists, London, Matt Sheard, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Populus, ransoms, Religious Affiliation, religious and ethnic hatred, Roman Catholic Church, Ruth Gledhill, Scotland, Secularism and Nonreligion, St Paul's Cathedral, Sunday Mirror, The Tablet, The Times, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov
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September Snippets
Herewith the headlines from five new sources of British religious statistics, arranged in order of their date of release: Creationism versus Evolution Whereas 51% of Americans still believe that God created human beings in their present form within the last … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Survey news
Tagged Angus Reid Public Opinion, BBC Local Radio, Canada, Church of England, church weddings, ComRes, Creationism, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Evening Standard, evolution, God, hate crimes, Home Office, human beings, Ipsos-MORI, man of faith, marriage, police, politics, United States of America, women bishops, www.yourchurchwedding.org
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Farewell to the Citizenship Survey
Headline findings from the 2010-11 Citizenship Survey for England and Wales were published by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 22 September 2011 in the form of Cohesion Research Statistical Release No. 16, comprising a textual report and … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news
Tagged Belonging, Britishness, Citizenship Survey, Civic Engagement, cohesion, decisions, Department for Communities and Local Government, Home Office, Ipsos-MORI, neighbourhod, places of worship, religious harassment, religious prejudice, social mixing, TNS-BMRB, violence, volunteering
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