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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2020

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 62, November 2020 features 23 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 62 November 2020 … Continue reading →

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Counting Religion in Britain, September 2019

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 48, September 2019 features 18 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 48 September 2019 … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, People news, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged Ali Campbell, Andrew Barclay, Anti-Semitism, BBC, beauty, Bible, Centre for Church Growth Research, children, church attendance, church growth, Church in Wales, church membership, Church of England, churches, clergy, ComRes, David Barclay, David Goodhew, Demos, Electoral Studies, Extra-terrestrials, Faith schools, friendship, harvest festivals, holiday reading, hymns, Ipsos Global Advisor, Ipsos-MORI, Islamist terrorism, Jeremy Corbyn, Jerusalem, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Labour Party, Labour Party members, Mainstream UK, Maria Sobolewska, ministry, National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, National Catholic Safeguarding Commission, National Secular Society, political alignment, politics, priests, professions, religious communities, religious education, religious faith, religious prejudice, Robert Ford, Roman Catholic Church, Sacha Hilhorst, safeguarding, Scottish Referendum Study, secular partnerships, Sir Halley Stewart Trust, Songs of Praise, spirituality, Stena Line, Survation, trust, trustworthy, UK Data Service, University of Oxford, voting, YouGov, youth workers | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, September 2017

Posted on October 1, 2017 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 24, September 2017 features 26 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 24 September 2017 OPINION POLLS Harmfulness of religion More than twice as many … Continue reading →

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Women in the Church and Other News

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Women in the Church Prompted by the recent debate (and decisive vote) about women bishops in the Church of England’s General Synod, Opinium Research resolved to test public opinion about several facets of the role of women in the … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Ashers Baking Company, Bishops, British Future, British values, Christian businesses, Christian Institute, Church of England, ComRes, disestablishment, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, gender equality, ICM Research, ITV News, Opinium Research, ordination of women, priests, respect for religion and beliefs, Roman Catholic Church, same-sex marriage | 2 Comments

Sunday Times Religion Poll

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Clive D. Field

YouGov conducts a weekly online poll for The Sunday Times, and today’s edition includes a special module on religion (with particular reference to attitudes to the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church), as well as analysing responses to … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Argentina, celibacy, child abuse, Church and State, Church of England, Coalition Government, David Cameron, extra-marital sex, Francis I, George Osborne, in touch, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Justin Welby, out of touch, politics, Pope, priests, Roman Catholic Church, same-sex marriage, South America, Sunday Times, welfare benefits, women bishops, YouGov | 1 Comment

Trust in Clergy and Other News

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Clive D. Field

While waiting for the first tests of public opinion to the sudden resignation of Benedict XVI as Pope, here is a batch of six recently-published sources of British religious statistics on a miscellany of subjects. Trust in clergy Clergy/priests are … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged abstinence, beginning of human life, bereavement, Bishops, Church of England, churchgoing, clergy, ComRes, conception, episcopate, gay bishops, Ipsos-MORI, Lent, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Michael Keulemans, Philip Brenner, priests, Religious Affiliation, religious festivals, Sociology of Religion, trust, truth, Westminster Faith Debates, women bishops, Xlibris, YouGov | Leave a comment

North African Islamism and Other News

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Clive D. Field

The threat posed by Islamism in North Africa is the lead story in today’s round-up of religious statistical news, with two of the other three items concerning the role of religion in state education. North African Islamism Recent events … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged EBacc, English Baccalaureate, Faith schools, Islamism, Islamist militants, Movement for Married Clergy, NASUWT, National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, North Africa, priests, Prospect, religious education, Roman Catholic Church, state schools, terrorism, YouGov | 1 Comment

Respect for Clergy and Other News

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Herewith some news stories about British religious statistics which have come to hand during the past fortnight; they are arranged in order of release date. Evangelicals and Money Evangelical Christians are not immune from the economic downturn, with 15% feeling … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Angus Reid Public Opinion, Archbishop of Canterbury, Canada, Christian Research, Church of England, clergy, ComRes, Cpanel, English Heritage, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, freedom of expression, heritage, Innocence of Muslims, Islamophobia, ministers, money, Newman Demographic Survey, Pastoral Research Centre, places of worship, priests, professions, Resonate, respect, Roman Catholic Church, Rowan Williams, tolerance, United States of America, women bishops | 1 Comment

Veracity of Clergy

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Clergy and priests are the sixth most trustworthy group in society, according to an Ipsos MORI poll for the British Medical Association and published on 27 June. Fieldwork was conducted on 10-16 June 2011 among 1,026 adults aged 15 and … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged British Medical Association, clergy, Ipsos-MORI, priests, trustworthiness, truth, veracity | 2 Comments

After the Papal Visit

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Clive D. Field

One-quarter of British adults claim to have followed the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Scotland and England, according to a newly-released poll from Angus Reid Public Opinion (ARPO), far fewer than are preoccupied with the sexual abuse scandal in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Angus Reid Public Opinion, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, priests, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse, terrorism | Leave a comment

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