Tag Archives: Religious discrimination

Grace Davie on Religion and Other News

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Grace Davie on Religion in Britain Twenty-one years ago, in 1994, Grace Davie published her seminal Religion in Britain since 1945, a sociological account which became a standard textbook for students of the sociology of religion and contemporary British … Continue reading →

Posted in Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, People news, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged apocalyptic disaster, believing without belonging, Ben Ryan, Benjamin Netanyahu, chaplaincy, Christian Research, church social action, ComRes, elections, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Geoff Knott, Grace Davie, Grassroots Conservatives, Isaac Herzog, Israel, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, jubilee, Judgement Day, Kelsey Beninger, Luton, Martin Mitchell, ministry, mothers, NatCen Social Research, Religious discrimination, religious freedom, service delivery, Social Capital, Survation, Theos, United States, Wiley Blackwell, workplace, YouGov | Leave a comment

Devil in the Detail

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Eight religious statistical news stories feature in our latest miscellany, starting with a survey on belief in the Devil and ending with a public consultation on the future of the decennial population census in Britain, to which some BRIN readers … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Anglicans, BBC, Beyond 2011, census of population, Christian Research, Church of England, Church Times, ComRes, Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, depression, Devil, Ephraim Borowski, exorcism, Fiona Frank, Islam, Islamophobia, Jews, Leah Granat, Linda Woodhead, Michael King, Muslims, Office for National Statistics, Opinium Research, Psychological Medicine, Religious discrimination, Roman Catholic Church, Scotland, Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, wills, YouGov | Leave a comment

Climbing the Papal Mountain and Other News

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Today’s post covers three news stories, two of which test public reactions to the religious landscape following, respectively, the resignation of the Pope and last month’s four cases of alleged religious discrimination appealed to the European courts. Climbing the … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Organisational data, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged accountants, African Pope, Anti-Semitism, Bethany Eckley, Burka, Christian cross, Christian Research Consultancy, Church of England, Church Urban Fund, clergy, ComRes, European Court of Human Rights, flight attendants, force for good, Independent on Sunday, Islamophobia, kippah, Nadia Eweida, nurses, papacy, parishes, Religious discrimination, religious dress, Roman Catholic Church, Shirley Chaplin, skullcap, social action, Sunday Mirror, teachers, workplace, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge | Leave a comment

Churchgoing in York and Other News

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Herewith three news items which have come to hand during the final week of October: Churchgoing in York The churchgoing history of York from 1764 to the present day is recounted, statistically, in part II (chapter 6, pp. 113-56) of … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Anti-Semitism, Back to Church Sunday, Baptist Union, BIG Welcome, Christianophobia, Christians, church attendance, church growth, David Goodhew, Elim Pentecostal Church, Islamophobia, Jews, Methodist Church, mission, Muslims, prejudice, Religious discrimination, Robin Gill, York, YouGov | Leave a comment

Citizenship Survey Topic Reports, 2009/10

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) released three topic reports on the Citizenship Survey on 21 December, the first such publications for fifteen months. They can be accessed at: http://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/research/citizenshipsurvey/recentreports/ The documents relate to the Citizenship Survey undertaken … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged charitable giving, Citizenship Survey, Civic Engagement, community action, community cohesion, community spirit, Department for Communities and Local Government, equalities, ethnic minorities, freedom of religion, friends, government, influence of religion, Ipsos-MORI, Muslims, physical attack, places of worship, protection of religious rights, racial prejudice, Religious Affiliation, Religious discrimination, religious harassment, Religious Practice, religious prejudice, respect, social mixing, TNS-BMRB, volunteering | Leave a comment

Religious Discrimination in Britain

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Clive D. Field

A synthesis of the quantitative and qualitative evidence base for actual or perceived religious discrimination in Britain during the past decade was published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on 20 June as Research Report, 73. Emanating from … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion in public debate | Tagged David Perfect, Equality and Human Rights Commission, National Secular Society, Paul Weller, Religious discrimination | Leave a comment

A Perfect Companion

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Anybody feeling a little at sea in the plethora of religious data may find a new briefing paper from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) a great boon. Written by EHRC’s research manager, David Perfect, and simply entitled Religion … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, Official data | Tagged British Social Attitudes Survey, Census, church attendance, Church of England, Citizenship Survey, clergy, David Perfect, Employment Tribunal, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Eurobarometer, God, Integrated Household Survey, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, Religious discrimination, religious prejudice | 2 Comments

Religious Discrimination in the European Union

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The European Commission has recently released a detailed report on Discrimination in the EU in 2009, continuing a series of investigations of this topic commenced in 2006. The latest document is Special Eurobarometer 317 and is based on Wave 71.2 … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Eurobarometer, European Union, Religious discrimination | 1 Comment

Religion and human rights

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Liberty, the human rights organization, has today released the findings from a poll of United Kingdom Christians on the subject of freedom of religion and religious discrimination. The poll was commissioned against the background of the case of Nadia Eweida … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged British Airways, ComRes, Cpanel, freedom of religion, human rights, Liberty, Nadia Eweida, Religious discrimination, religious symbols | Leave a comment

Citizenship Survey, 2007-08 – Religion

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The Department for Communities and Local Government published the topic report on race, religion and equalities from the 2007-08 Citizenship Survey on 18 December 2009. The report runs to 256 pages and is freely available online at http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/pdf/1417955.pdf The Citizenship … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Citizenship Survey, Department for Communities and Local Government, NatCen, Religious discrimination, Religious Statistics | Leave a comment

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