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Tag Archives: morality
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
Tagged Accord Coalition, Active People Survey, armed forces, Benjamin Netanyahu, black and minority ethnic voters, British Humanist Association, British Muslim leaders, British Social Attitudes Survey, British values, Christians against Poverty, church growth, Church of England, Daniel Allington, David Voas, debt, discrimination, Eleanor Attar Taylor, European Social Survey, Faith schools, Finsbury Park mosque, forces for good, fundamental clash, general election, God, Handelsblatt, Heythrop College, Hope Not Hate, humanism, Humanists UK, ICM Unlimited, inter-faith relations, Islam, Islamist terrorism, Islamophobia, Israel, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Katherine Myant, Kirby Swales, Liberal Democrats, Lord Ashcroft, Methodist Church, Michael Breen, Mike Hornsby-Smith, Ministry of Defence, morality, NatCen Social Research, national anthem, National Union of Teachers, Opinium Research, party ideology, political leaders, politics, Populus, poverty, Reaktion Books, Rebecca Foster, Religious Affiliation, religious intolerance, religious prejudice, religiously aggravated offending, Roman Catholic Church, Routledge, Rural Theology, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, social liberalism, Steven Connor, Survation, terrorism, The Times, Tim Farron, voting, 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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Science and Religion and Other News
Science and religion Public Attitudes to Science, 2014: Main Report was published on 14 March 2014. The fifth in a series which began in 2000 (but effectively going back to 1988 for some topics), it draws upon face-to-face interviews conducted … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Survey news
Tagged Catholic Truth Society, Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland, church growth, Church of England, Church of England Newspaper, Creationism, Department for Business Innovation and Skills, Economic and Social Research Council, Evangelii Gaudium, evolution, faith, God, Ipsos-MORI, morality, natural selection, opinions, origin of life on earth, Orthodox Churches, Peter Brierley, Pew Research Center, Pope Francis, Rite of Election, Roman Catholic Church, science, Vatican
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Census Christians
‘UK residents who think of themselves as Christian show very low levels of Christian belief and practice’ and ‘are overwhelmingly secular in their attitudes on a range of issues from gay rights to religion in public life’, according to research … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged abortion, assisted suicide, Bible, Bishops, Census, Christians, Church and State, churchgoing, collective worship, Creationism, Daily Telegraph, Ekklesia, extra-marital sex, Faith schools, God, heaven, hell, homosexuality, hospital chaplaincy, House of Lords, Ipsos-MORI, Jesus Christ, morality, National Secular Society, official religion, prayer, public life, Religious Affiliation, religious education, Resurrection, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK), schools, self-assessed religiosity, state religion
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Religion in Western Europe and the USA
The latest report from the Pew Global Attitudes Project, on the values gap between America and Western Europe (including on three religious indicators), was published today, with the general headline of ‘American exceptionalism subsides’ (although this was less applicable to … Continue reading
University Students
Three-fifths of UK university students claim to belong to some religion, but most do not regard themselves as particularly religious. And although three-quarters accept that there are clear ethical principles differentiating right from wrong, only one-third think they should always … Continue reading
Clive Field on Attitudes to Islam and Muslim Attitudes in Britain
Last week, the Institute for Social Change (where BRIN is based) hosted a seminar by Clive Field, who co-directs this resource and blogs here assiduously. The title was “Muslim Opinions and Opinions of Muslims: British Experiences”. Clive provided a historical overview of Islam in Britain, followed by a “survey of surveys”, and culminating in an exploratory analysis of a survey of British Muslims sponsored by Harvard and Manchester. Continue reading
Posted in Measuring religion, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press
Tagged Accommodation, Clive Field, David Campbell, David Voas, Harvard, Institute for Social Change, integration, Islam, Islamophobia, John Templeton Foundation, Manchester, morality, National Identity, Notre Dame, politics, Robert Putnam, Social Distance, Social Surveys, Survey Methodology
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Religion and Morality in the 1950s and 1960s
We reported in the summer on the ongoing scholarly debate about ‘When was secularization?’ (in Britain) – see http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=347. In particular, we noted the arguments of Professor Callum Brown for regarding the 1960s as the major tipping-point on the trajectory … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies
Tagged 1950s, 1960s, morality, Nigel Yates, sex, sexual revolution
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Papal Visit – More Surveys
We recently reported (http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=517) on an opinion poll conducted in Scotland on attitudes towards the forthcoming (16-19 September) state and pastoral visit of Pope Benedict XVI to England and Scotland. Today (4 September) two surveys conducted among representative samples of … Continue reading
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Tagged Act of Settlement, Caritas in Veritate, Catholic social teaching, Christian culture, Church of England, ComRes, economics, Elena Curti, environment, Faith schools, human rights, Ipsos-MORI, morality, paedophilia, papal encyclical, papal visit, Paul Woolley, Pope Benedict XVI, Queen, Richard Norman, Roman Catholic Church, Rowan Williams, sexual abuse, sexuality, state visit, The Tablet, Theos, women priests
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