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Tag Archives: humanism
Counting Religion in Britain, June 2017
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 21, June 2017 features 23 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 21 June 2017 OPINION POLLS Religion and the general election The actual political … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news
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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2017
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 18, March 2017 features 25 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 18 March 2017 OPINION POLLS Belief at work ‘British employers struggle to manage … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion Online, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged A Levels, Abby Day, Albion Urdank, Andrew Village, Annual Population Survey, Anti-Semitism, Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, atheism, Baptists, Bloomsbury, British Journal of Religious Education, Callum Brown, Christian conferences, Church of England, Clive Field, ComRes, conversation, Daniel Staetsky, David Geary, death anxiety, devolution, Ecumenism, educational attainment, Equality Act 2010, European Court of Justice, Faith Research Centre, Faith schools, Gijsbert Stoet, Hannah Stuart, Henry Jackson Society, historical demography, humanism, ICM, iCoCo Foundation, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Intelligence, Islam, Islamic terrorism, Islamist terrorism, Jamin Halbertstadt, Jewish News, Jewish schools, Jonathan Boyd, Jonathan Jong, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Journal of the British Academy, Katie Harrison, Ken Livingstone, Labour Party, Leeds Beckett University, Leslie Francis, Lexington Books, Linda Woodhead, London, Mandy Robbins, marriages, Martin Camroux, mathematics, Nailsworth, Naomi Simons, Office for National Statistics, oral history, Oscar Watkins, Oxford University Press, Peter Webster, prayer, Project 3:28, Religion Brain and Behviour, Religious Affiliation, religious ceremonies, Religious discrimination, religious dress, religious education, religious nones, religious studies, religious symbols, rites of passage, Robert Ross, Rowan Williams, SchoolDash, science, Scotland, Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, segregation, Sharia law, Si-Hua Chang, Smith Commission, Social Compass, St Paul's Cathedral, Stephen Parker, The Challenge, threat to the UK, TNS-BMRB, Tristan Philip, UCL Press, United Reformed Church, University of Edinburgh, values, visitor attractions, Westminster Abbey, women, workplace, World Wide Web, YouGov
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Humanist Marriages and Other News
Herewith eight more religious statistical news stories which have come to hand during the past week. Humanist marriages Humanist marriages have been legal in Scotland since 2005, and in 2011 (the latest year for which data are available) they were … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religious Census, Survey news
Tagged Abu Qatada al-Filistini, Alan Munden, British Humanist Association, census of population, church growth, Church of England, church-joining, church-leaving, Clive Field, County Durham, Diocese of Leicester, hate preachers, humanism, humanist marriages, Islamism, Islamophobia, Jordan, Lee Rigby, London, mission statistics, Muslim communities, National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, NATRE, Northumberland, primary schools, Religious Affiliation, religious education, Scottish Episcopal Church, Sociology of Religion Study Group, SocRel, St Paul's Cathedral, Sun on Sunday, Surtees Society, Survation, Warburtons, Woolwich, YouGov
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Humanist Marriages in Scotland
Humanist marriages, permitted in Scotland since 2005 (but not elsewhere in the UK), were the second most common form of ‘religious’ wedding ceremony in Scotland in 2011, with 2,486 marriages by Humanist celebrants compared with 5,557 conducted by Church of … Continue reading
The Ways We Say Goodbye
Even for those not overtly religious in their everyday lives, the three rites of passage (birth/baptism, marriage and death – or, colloquially put, hatching, matching and dispatching) have traditionally been a point of contact with institutional religion. Church of England … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged Co-operative Funeralcare, death, funerals, humanism, ICM Research, rites of passage
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