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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
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Counting Religion in Britain, June 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 9, June 2016 features 24 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 9 June 2016 OPINION POLLS – BREXIT The referendum on the United Kingdom’s … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Organisational data, People news, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious prejudice, Survey news
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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 4, January 2016 features 25 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 4 January 2016 OPINION POLLS Nones On 19 January 2016 Professor Linda … Continue reading
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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
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Muslim Voices and Other News
Muslim voices There is no shortage of national opinion polls asking what Britons think about Islam and Muslims, but there have been relatively few surveys conducted among British Muslims in recent years. Only in the aftermath of the 9/11 … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, 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
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Sacred Texts and Other News
Sacred texts The potential contribution of religious and sacred texts to the school curriculum is explored in new research published by the Bible Society on 20 November 2014. Commissioned from YouGov, it involved online interviews with samples of (a) … Continue reading
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St Andrew’s Day and Other News
Today is St Andrew’s Day, as you might have noticed from the latest and attractive ‘Google doodle’. However, their patron saint’s day is not going to be much celebrated by Scots, according to the first of nine reports in today’s … Continue reading
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Rural Church
Rural Life and Rural Church: Theological and Empirical Perspectives, edited by Leslie Francis and Mandy Robbins was published last month by Equinox Publishing of Sheffield (ISBN 978-1-84553-984-9, £19.99, paperback). It reprints, together with a new introduction by the editors, 28 … Continue reading
Introverts in the Cathedral
A press release from Glyndwr University just before Christmas drew attention to the publication of some results of a Glyndwr research team into the application of Jungian psychological type theory to profile the visitors to two Anglican cathedrals. Psychological type … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Village, Chester Cathedral, Church of England, Emyr Williams, extraversion, Glyndwr University, introversion, Jennie Annis, Jennie Brice-Annis, Leslie Francis, Mandy Robbins, psychological type theory, Simon Mansfield, St Davids Cathedral, tourism, Visitor Studies, visitors
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