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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2021

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 75, December 2021 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 75 December 2021 … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Covid-19, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, People news, Religion and Education, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged aliens visiting Earth, Amy Unsworth, Annual Population Survey, Anti-Semitism, Antisemitism Policy Trust, Beth Singler, Bible Society, Brigitta Horup, Carli Lessof, carol services, celebrity creationists, celebrity scientists, Censuswide, Christmas, Church and organized religion, church attendance, Church of England, clergy and priests, Clive Field, Community Security Trust, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Covid-19, David Lankshear, David Voas, Diocese of Southwark, Ecclesiastical Insurance, Eileen Barker, Elizabeth Poole, ethnicity, Evangelical Alliance, evolution, Fabian Society, Gallup Poll, Gordon Heald, happiness, HTS Theological Studies, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, Ipsos-MORI, Jesus Christ, Jewish Labour Movement, Jewish schools, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, Journal of Religion Media and Digital Culture, Keir Starmer, Ken Eames, Labour Party, Leslie Francis, Liverpool Cathedral, media representation of religion, minority religions, Muslims, National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, National Secular Society, nativity plays, New Religious Movements, newspapers, non-stun slaughter of animals, Office for National Statistics, Opinion Research Business, Oxford University Press, psychological health, Public Understanding of Science, Religious Affiliation, religious education, religious festivals, religious prejudice, rites of passage, Routledge, secularization, Springer International, statistics for mission, Susan Jones, tell the truth, trust, Twitter, UFOs, unidentified flying objects, Ursula McKenna, vaccination rates, well-being, Woolf Institute, YouGov | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, July 2016

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 10, July 2016 features 14 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 10 July 2016 OPINION POLLS Hope not Hate post-Brexit poll On behalf of … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Andrew Brown, Anti-Semitism, being Christian, Ben Clements, Bible Society, Bible stories, Bloomsbury, Brexit, British Religion in Numbers, Channel 4, child abuse, Church of England, collective worship, ComRes, Crown Prosecution Service, David Graham, endogamy, European Union, exogamy, Fatima Manji, FutureFirst, Grahame Allen, higher education, Hope Not Hate, House of Commons Library, Imran Mogra, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, integration, intermarriage, Islamism, Islamophobia, James Lewis, James William Croan Chadkirk, Jews, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Kelvin MacKenzie, Linda Woodhead, Mail on Sunday, Michael Oman-Reagan, Muslims, New Religious Movements, Nice, Noel Dempsey, Peter Brierley, Pew Global Attitudes Project, places of worship, Populus, prisoners, Quakers, Religion and the Public Sphere, Religious Affiliation, religious hate crimes, religious nones, religious prejudice, Religious Society of Friends, Sean Currie, sex crimes, The Sun, TNS-BMRB, trainee teachers, YouGov | Leave a comment

Church Buildings and Other News

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Church buildings Churchgoing may be a distinctly minority activity in contemporary Britain, but as many as 45% of the population claim to have visited a church or chapel during the past year for either religious or non-religious purposes, rising … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged anti-Semitic incidents, Bible, Christianity magazine, church attendance, church buildings, Church of England, Clive Field, Community Security Trust, ComRes, Dalai Lama, Diocese of Canterbury, Food Standards Agency, freedom of religion, Fresh Expressions, general election, halal, Index on Censorship, Innes Bowen, James Lewis, Jews, John Walker, Magna Carta, Martin Saunders, Mehmood Naqshbandi, mosques, Muslim News, Muslims, National Churches Trust, New Religious Movements, politics, Pope Francis, pornography, Religious Affiliation, ScotCen Social Research, Scotland, Scottish Social Attiutudes Survey, shechita, slaughter of animals, YouGov | Leave a comment

Recent Journal Articles and Other News

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Clive D. Field

As well as carrying the usual miscellany of news, this post reports on a selection of recent articles in academic journals which may be of interest to BRIN users. We give a URL for each, in line with our standard … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Official data, Religion in public debate, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged A.J.Christopher, anti-Catholicism, Beth Singler, British Social Attitudes Surveys, British values, Charity Awareness Monitor, church, Clive Field, Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life, ComRes, European Social Surveys, European Values Studies, Independent on Sunday, Jediism, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Religion in Europe, Marion Burkimsher, New Religious Movements, nfpSynergy, Religious Affiliation, religious attendance, religious census, religious freedom, religious polarization, Roman Catholicism, Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, Scottish Episcopal Church, social media, Sociology of Religion, Sunday Mirror, trust, Woolf Institute | Leave a comment

“Other – Write In”

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Siobhan McAndrew

The British Election Study 2009-2010 is a valuable resource for political scientists. What researchers in religion may not realise is that the questions on religious affiliation can tell us something about how people define themselves, and to a certain extent, about the comparative size of new religious movements, sects, and smaller religions. The Internet Panel sample comprised 16816 respondents giving more ability than in smaller surveys to look at smaller faith communities. Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Research note | Tagged British Election Study 2009-2010, New Religious Movements, Other Religions | Leave a comment

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