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Tag Archives: media
Counting Religion in Britain, July 2019
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 46, July 2019 features 17 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 46 July 2019 … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged active Christians, admired living public figures, Amy Unsworth, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, armed forces, Ben Clements, British Social Attitudes Survey, Cabinet Office, Centre for Media Monitoring, Channel 4, charitable giving, Christian Aid, civil service, climate change, Community Life Survey, Community Security Trust, compatibility with British way of life, ComRes, Conservative Party, Countryside Alliance, Dalai Lama, David Voas, Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport, Department for Education, diet, European Values Study, Faisal Hanif, Faith schools, Hope Not Hate, International Social Survey Programme, Islam, Jeremy Corbyn, Jews, Kantar Public, Labour Party, media, mental health problem, Ministry of Defence, Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, money management, Muslim Council of Britain, National Centre for Social Research, Nick Spencer, ORB International, political party members, Pope Francis, Populus, Religious Affiliation, religious beliefs, religious hate crime, religious prejudice, science, Scotland, Scottish Government, secularization, Steve Bruce, The Times, Theos, volunteering, YouGov
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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 6, March 2016 features 23 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 6 March 2016 OPINION POLLS Hope Not Hate Hope Not Hate, founded … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, People news, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, anti-Muslim hatred, Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society, Bible Society, Bolton, British values, Charity Awareness Monitor, Children's Society, Christians, church attendance, Clive Field, ComRes, Conrad Hackett, Daily News and Leader, David Graham, death, Early Day Motions, Easter eggs, Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, England, European Union, Faith schools, force for good, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, gender differences in religion, genocide, Health Survey for England, Hindus, Hope Not Hate, human rights, importance of religion, Independent Press Standards Organisation, Information Centre for Health and Social Care, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, integration, IPSO, Islam, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Jewish charitable giving, Jewish health, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, Jonny Wineberg, Journal of Legislative Studies, London, London Journal, Mary Riso, Mass-Observation, Meaningful Chocolate Company, media, Members of Parliament, mosques, Muslim communities, Muslims, NatCen Social Research, National Foundation for Educational Research, National Survey of Young People’s Well-Being, nfpSynergy, NHS Salford Clinical Commissioning Group, Nick Lowles, Nonconformists, Northern History, ORB International, Parable of the Good Samaritan, Parliamentary Affairs, Parliamentary Questions for Written Answers, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Pew Research Center, places of worship, Pope Francis, Populus, prayer, religion and laws, religious abuse, Religious Affiliation, Religious discrimination, religious festivals, religious tolerance, respect for local religious leaders, Robert Ford, Salford, Sandi Mann, Sikhs, source of identity, spiritual or paranormal phenomena, Stephen Bullivant, strangers, terrorism, terrorist attack, The Sun, The Times, threat to Western civilization, trust in the Church, University of York, violence, visitor attractions, WIN/Gallup International, Yazidis, YouGov
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Je suis Charlie and Other News
Last week’s news was dominated by a series of Islamist outrages in France, in which seventeen innocent people died, three police officers, four shoppers at a kosher supermarket, and ten journalists working for the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which in … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Catholic Directory of England and Wales, Charlie Hebdo, Christian conferences, Christianity, clergy, ComRes, David Ceri Jones, democracy, France, Ipsos-MORI, Islam, Islamism, Islamophobia, media, Michelangelo, NASUWT, Natalie Collins, Opinium Research, ORB International, parents, Populus, Project 3:28, Prophet Mohammed, religious ethos, religious leaders, Richard Allen, schools, self-assessed religiosity, Sistine Chapel, Sunday Times, trust, Wales, WIN/Gallup International, women speakers, works of art, 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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Halloween and Other News
Today (1 November) is All Saints’ Day or All Hallows’ Day. Tomorrow (2 November) is All Souls’ Day. Yesterday (31 October) was All Hallows’ Eve or Halloween. At one time, these were all important Christian festivals, but now Halloween has … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Channel 4, clergy, ComRes, corpus linguistics, Costas Gabrielatos, council prayers, discourse analysis, full face veils, Halloween, Islam, Islamophobia, Mail on Sunday, media, Muslims, newspapers, niqab, Paul Baker, professionals, religious dress, religious festivals, telling the truth, Tony McEnery, veils, veracity, Westminster Abbey Institute, women, YouGov
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Winter 2013 Cpanel
The results of two modules from the winter 2013 Cpanel of churchgoers have been released by their sponsors this Eastertide, doubtless in a bid to grab the public’s attention at a time of year when religion has traditionally taken centre … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged advertising, Archbishop of Canterbury, C4M, churchgoers, Coalition for Marriage, ComRes, Conservative Party, Cpanel, David Cameron, freedom of religious expression, government, homosexuality, image of the Church, Justin Welby, local places of worship, media, Premier Christian Radio, rights of Christians, same-sex marriage, voting
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Welcome to 2013
Welcome to 2013! All of us at BRIN wish our readers every success and happiness in the New Year. We thank you for using our website (there have been over 360,000 page views to date). We sincerely hope that not … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged 1960s, Archbishop of Canterbury, Automobile Association, Bishops, Boydell Press, Callum Brown, Christmas carols, Church Commissioners, Church of England, Classic FM, costs, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, demography, Hannah Stuart, Henry Jackson Society, Houriya Ahmed, media, Muslim Council of Britain, number 13, O Holy Night, Populus, public sphere, religious festivals, secularization, superstitions, The Guardian, triskaidekaphobia, vehicle registration plates, women
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Naughty Vicar Syndrome
Local clergy come a close second to politicians in meriting media exposure for cheating on their spouse, according to a new survey commissioned by The Sunday Times in the wake of the controversy surrounding superinjunctions and the freedom of the … Continue reading
Posted in Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged clergy, infidelity, media, ministers, press, Sunday Times, unfaithfulness, YouGov
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Media Portrayal of Groups
The ways in which the media portray groups has been in the news again recently, following the suspension by All3Media of Brian True-May, the producer of Midsomer Murders on ITV, for remarks he made in a Radio Times interview. True-May … Continue reading
