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Tag Archives: life after death
Counting Religion in Britain, May 2020
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 56, May 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 56 May 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged Andrew Village, Angels, anxiety, attack on western values, attendance at religious services, Ben Clements, Bible, British Election Study, Campaign against Living Miserably, Catholic Times, Catholic Universe, Census Order (England and Wales), children, Christian Aid, Church of England, Church Times, church-based activities, collapse the economy, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Covid-19, Daniel Freeman, death or grief, destroy religion, ethnic minorities, Evangelical Alliance, faith leaders, funerals, general elections, globalists, God, HOPE Together, Hospice UK, Jains, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Leslie Francis, life after death, lockdown, mass attendance, Mater Dei Centre for Catholic Education, meditation, miracles, moral guidance, mortality, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslims, National Churches Trust, pandemic, parents, Populus, prayer, Psychological Medicine, Religious Affiliation, religious beliefs, religious broadcasting, religious census, religious faith, religious leaders, religious music, religious services, religious texts, religious workers, reopening of churches, rites of passage, Roman Catholic Church, Savanta ComRes, ScotCen Social Research, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, Sikh Network, Sikhs, Smoking, spiritual activities, spiritual beliefs, spiritual leadership, spirituality, Stephen Bullivant, Stephen Pollard, stress, Talking Toddlers, Tearfund, The Tablet, understanding of spiritual matters, voting, Word on Fire, York St John University, YouGov
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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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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2017
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 19, April 2017 features 27 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 19 April 2017 OPINION POLLS Lenten abstinence and Easter activities Just under one-fifth … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged 9dot-research, abstinence, academic research, active membership of religious groups, attendance at religious services, BBC, Ben Clements, Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society, BMG Research, Brexit, British Household Panel Survey, British Sociological Association, Burka, Cadbury, Care for the Family, census of population, Chris Dibben, Christian Institute, church attendance, church growth, church membership, Church of England, Church of England Newspaper, Church Times, ComRes, Daily Telegraph, David Voas, David Wright, Dermot O’Reilly, Easter, Easter eggs, Englishness, ethnic minorities, European Union, Faith in Research, family, Francesca Montemaggi, free school meals, freedom of expression, FutureFirst, general election, Gillian Raab, Global Religious Landscape, government restrictions on religion, Health and Place, homosexuality, HOPE, identity, income, Ingrid Storm, integration, Islam, Islamophobia, James Crouch, Jesus Christ, Jewish students, Journal of Contemporary Religion, labour market, Lent, life after death, Lord Ashcroft, Mark Hart, Maureen Glackin, Methodist Church, Methodist Recorder, Michael Rosato, Muslims, National Trust, National Union of Students, Natural Environment Research Council, niqab, non-religion, Northern Ireland, Opinium Research, Oven Pride, Paul Boyle, Paul Nuttall, Peter Brierley, Pew Research Center, politicians, Priya Minhas, Religious Affiliation, religious dress, religious festivals, religious freedom, religious nones, religious views, Research Councils UK, Resurrection, Roman Catholic schools, Sadek Hamid, Scotland, Scottish Affairs, Scottish church census, Scottish Social Attitudes Surveys, sectarian disadvantage, secularization, sin, Stephen Bullivant, Steve Bruce, Syrian refugees, The Observer, The Times, Theresa May, Tim Farron, toleration, Tony Glendinning, transmission of faith, Trevor Phillips, United Kingdom Independence Party, voting, YouGov, youth
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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2015
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 2, November 2015 features no fewer than 41 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 2 November 2015 OPINION POLLS – GENERAL Religious affiliation ORB … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news
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ComRes on Religion and Other News
ComRes on religion Exactly half the whole population (and 71% of those professing no religion) now denies that religion is a force for good in the world, according to a ComRes poll for ITV News on 16-18 January 2015, … Continue reading
Posted in Measuring religion, People news, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, Survey news
Tagged 1970 British Cohort Study, 202 Strategies, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Anti-Semitism, Bright Blue, Campaign against Antisemitism, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Christian values, ComRes, David Voas, Ed Miliband, Eric Pickles, European Jewish Congress, force for good, God, heterosexuality, holocaust, Immigration, ITV News, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Leslie Francis, life after death, Lord Ashcroft, Mandy Robbins, Muslims, mystical experience, politics, Pope Francis I, psychopathology, Religious Affiliation, religious leaders, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Sarah-Jane Page, Survation, The Conversation, Tim Bale, TNS-BMRB, YouGov
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Huffington Post and Other Polls
Huffington Post religion poll As part of its new ‘Beyond Belief’ series, The Huffington Post UK commissioned Survation to carry out a short online survey about religion among 2,004 Britons on 31 October and 1 November 2014. Results were … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged alcohol, Archbishop of Canterbury, Ashers Baking Company, atheists, Channel 4 News, child abuse, Church of England, Church Times, clergy, ComRes, confused.com, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, ghosts, Halloween, haunted houses, Huffington Post, Jessica Elgot, Jonathan Chaplin, life after death, Linda Woodhead, morality, OnePoll, Opinium Research. Populus, religion as cause of harm, Religious Affiliation, religious hate crimes, same-sex marriage, self-assessed religiosity, Sunday Times, supernatural, Survation, The Sun, YouGov
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Christian Country and Other News
Christian country? The recent public and media debate about whether Britain is a Christian country or not, sparked by Prime Minister David Cameron’s comments before Easter, rumbles on. It has gained added impetus through Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged 1970 British Cohort Study, changing religion, Channel 5, Christian country, church attendance, conflict, David Cameron, football, God, ICM Research, intolerance, John Paul II, life after death, Michael Lipka, patron saints, practising Christians, Religious Affiliation, religious freedom, science, St George's Day, Sunday Telegraph, The Leadership Factor, TNS-BMRB, Warren United, YouGov
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British Cohort Study + Fostering
Our main story in today’s round-up of religious statistical news features initial findings from the current wave of one of the few genuinely longitudinal studies covering religion in this country, which further illustrates some of the methodological challenges involved in framing … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news
Tagged afterlife, Alice Sullivan, BCS70, British Cohort Study, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, church attendance, David Voas, Economic and Social Research Council, foster children, foster parents, fostering, God, Institute of Education, inter-religious fostering, life after death, Matt Brown, Methodology, question-wording, Religious Affiliation, religious upbringing, Rotherham, TNS-BMRB, YouGov
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Anglican Themes – and Funeral Hymns
The cluster of news stories which have come to hand within the last four days mainly concern the Church of England, but a couple are also of wider interest: Church of England Growth? The Church of England launched a new … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news
Tagged Andreas Whittam Smith, Angels, Association of English Cathedrals, Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, Cathedrals, church attendance, church growth, Church of England, Church of England Newspaper, Co-operative Funeralcare, ComRes, David Voas, Foundation for Church Leadership, funerals, FutureFirst, God, Grubb Institute, heritage, hymns, Jesus Christ, life after death, music, Peter Brierley, reincarnation, Religious Affiliation, religious beliefs, Resurrection, soul, spiritual capital, Theos, tourism, universal life force, University of Essex, Visit England, visitors
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