Tag Archives: Religiosity

American Religiosity – Viewed from Britain

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Much has been written about the perceived contrasts between a secularizing Western Europe and a continuingly religious United States. One example is the book by Peter Berger, Grace Davie and Effie Fokas on Religious America, Secular Europe? (Ashgate, 2008), synthesizing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Pew Global Attitudes Project, Pew Research Center, Princeton Survey Research Associates International, Religiosity, United States of America | Leave a comment

Values and Religion

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Clive D. Field

A social psychological view of the connection between religion and values is offered in the recent article by Miriam Pepper, Tim Jackson and David Uzzell, ‘A Study of Multidimensional Religion Constructs and Values in the United Kingdom’, Journal for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Survey news | Tagged churchgoing, David Uzzell, God, Guildford, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Miriam Pepper, Religiosity, Shalom Schwartz, spirituality, Tim Jackson, values, Woking | Leave a comment

Janet Eccles on Statistical Approaches to the Study of Religion

Posted on June 2, 2010 by admin

How much can statistics tell us about the state of ‘religion’ in Britain today, or in the past? Piety or religiosity may be expressed in many different ways – and outside conventional church traditions altogether. Some forms of religiosity are beyond practical forms of measurement. Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Other, Research note | Tagged Gordon Lynch, Measuring religion, Participant Observation, Qualitative Approaches, Religiosity, Secularity | Leave a comment

Religion and the Hidden Wealth of Nations

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

Halpern’s discussion of religion is in a chapter called ‘The Politics of Virtue’, concerned with good citizenship. Despite Britons being generally averse to seeing politicians parade their personal religiosity,

‘an everyday sense of moral values and a shared sense of what is acceptable behaviour, is key to making a society work – it is part of the ‘hidden wealth’ of a successful nation’.
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Posted in Religion in public debate | Tagged Belief in God, David Halpern, Religion, Religiosity, Secularisation, Social Capital, Ten Commandments, World Values Survey | Leave a comment

Religiosity and Party Choice

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

It’s interesting to read Justin Parkinson, Political Reporter at the BBC, on Christianity and the election.

It’s noteworthy that in the European elections of 2009, the Christian Party – established five years earlier – won 250,000 votes, or 1.6 per cent nationally. While this was not a significant result at the national level, it was nevertheless ahead of Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party. The party also polled 2.9 per cent in London. Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Other | Tagged 2010 Election, Christian Party, Conservative Party, Electoral Turnout, Labour Party, Liberal Democrat Party, Party Choice, Religiosity, Religious Affiliation | 1 Comment

The Nationality of Numbers

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Ingrid Storm

As interesting as studying religion in Britain is, we often want to know to what extent what we find here is similar or different to the results from other countries. However, a problem with cross-national comparative studies of religion (and other social opinions, attitudes and behaviours) is that national context can make a huge difference to the meaning of certain concepts. Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion | Tagged Affiliation, Belonging, Britain, church attendance, Denmark, Ireland, National Churches, Religiosity, rites of passage, The Netherlands | Leave a comment

The British Social Attitudes Survey 2008 (part II)

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

Just to clarify, part II refers to this being our second post on the 2008 BSA, rather than the survey having two parts. The excellent news is that the dataset has been published online this week, and it’s fair to … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Survey news | Tagged Bioethical Attitudes, British Social Attitudes Survey, Civic Engagement, David Campbell, David Voas, Denmark, ESDS, Harvard, Intergenerational Transmission, Ireland, ISSP, Manchester, NatCen, National Identity, NORFACE, Northern Ireland, Notre Dame, Political Identity, Political Sociology, Relemerge, Religiosity, Religious Affiliation, Religious Identity, Robert Putnam, Social Capital, Templeton, The Netherlands, US | 1 Comment

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