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Tag Archives: Scottish Social Attitudes Survey
Counting Religion in Britain, May 2020
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 56, May 2020 features 16 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 56 May 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged Andrew Village, Angels, anxiety, attack on western values, attendance at religious services, Ben Clements, Bible, British Election Study, Campaign against Living Miserably, Catholic Times, Catholic Universe, Census Order (England and Wales), children, Christian Aid, Church of England, Church Times, church-based activities, collapse the economy, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Covid-19, Daniel Freeman, death or grief, destroy religion, ethnic minorities, Evangelical Alliance, faith leaders, funerals, general elections, globalists, God, HOPE Together, Hospice UK, Jains, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Leslie Francis, life after death, lockdown, mass attendance, Mater Dei Centre for Catholic Education, meditation, miracles, moral guidance, mortality, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslims, National Churches Trust, pandemic, parents, Populus, prayer, Psychological Medicine, Religious Affiliation, religious beliefs, religious broadcasting, religious census, religious faith, religious leaders, religious music, religious services, religious texts, religious workers, reopening of churches, rites of passage, Roman Catholic Church, Savanta ComRes, ScotCen Social Research, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, Sikh Network, Sikhs, Smoking, spiritual activities, spiritual beliefs, spiritual leadership, spirituality, Stephen Bullivant, Stephen Pollard, stress, Talking Toddlers, Tearfund, The Tablet, understanding of spiritual matters, voting, Word on Fire, York St John University, YouGov
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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2017
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 22, July 2017 features 12 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 22 July 2017 OPINION POLLS Trust in religious figures Only a minority (22%) of … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitic crimes, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, Be Reasonable, Ben Clements, Board of Deputies of British Jews, British Election Study, British values, Campaign against Antisemitism, Charity Awareness Monitor, civil service, Community Security Trust, ComRes, Dalai Lama, Donatella Casale Mashiah, Economic and Social Research Council, Evangelical Alliance, extremism, extremist figures, Freedom of Information Act, GlobeScan, influence in the world, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Jesus Christ, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, Muslims, negative stereotypes, nfpSynergy, Populus, Religious Affiliation, ScotCen Social Research, Scotland, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, senior religious figures, Survation, synagogue membership, trust, University of Maryland, Wales, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge
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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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Counting Religion in Britain, September 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 12, September 2016 features 26 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: no-12-september-2016 OPINION POLLS Religious affiliation Lord Ashcroft’s latest large-scale political poll, conducted online among … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged American Journal of Sociology, Angus Ritchie, Anti-Semitism, Astley-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Theistic Belief, athletes, BBC, Berry Billingsley, Beth Green, British Social Attitudes Survey, Bryan Wilson, Burka, burkini, Campaign against Antisemitism, Cathedrals, Centre for Theology and Community, Christian Research, Christopher Alan Lewis, church bell-ringing, church growth, Church in Wales, church membership, Church of England, circumcision, clergy, Co-operative Funeralcare, David Voas, discrimination, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, funeral music, human extinction, importance of religion, Ipsos-MORI, Islamophobia, Jewish Chronicle, Labour Party, Leslie Francis, London, Lord Ashcroft, lucky charms, Mark Chaves, Mental Health Religion and Culture, Muslims, obsessions, Oxford University Press, parish finance, practising Christians, Religious Affiliation, religious apocalypse, religious dress, Resonate, rites of passage, science, ScotCen Social Research, Scottish Election Study, Scottish Government, Scottish Household Survey, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, secularization, Soul Survivor, Steve Bruce, supernatural, theistic belief, Tim Thorlby, Union of Jewish Students, United States of America, YouGov
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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 7, April 2016 features 23 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 7 April 2016 OPINION POLLS Muslim voices Opinion polls conducted among British Muslims … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged alcohol, Anti-Semitism, attendance at religious services, Ben Cowdrey, Bethan Thomas, biomedical research, Brexit, British Social Attitudes Survey, cathedral friends, Channel 4, charitable services, Charities Aid Foundation, Christian Research, church leaders, Church of England, church visits, ComRes, consumerism, crises, Danny Dorling, David Voas, diversity, Drinkaware, European Union, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, Evening Standard, faith-based charities, freedom of speech, FutureFirst, gender equality, Gerard Lemos, homosexuality, Ian Sansbury, ICM Unlimited, Idea, integration, intercessory prayer, invisible Church, Ipsos-MORI, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Israel, Israeli government, ITV News, Jeff Astley, Jews, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Journal of Religion in Europe, Judith Muskett, Ken Livingstone, Labour Party, Lea Kauffmann-de Vries, Leslie Francis, London, Mark Griffiths, marriages, materialism, Muslims, NatCen Social Research, New Philanthropy Capital, New Wine, Newman Demographic Survey, Oasis Foundation, Office for National Statistics, origin of life on earth, Pastoral Research Centre, Peter Brierley, Policy Press, Pope Francis, Populus, practising Christians, Pray One for Me, prayer, prison chaplains, prisoners, psychological type, public services, referendum, Religious Affiliation, religious census, Resonate, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, Sadiq Khan, Saint Andrew Press, science, ScotCen Social Research, Scotland, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, secularization, Siobhan McAndrew, Steve Aisthorpe, Steve Bruce, Sunday trading, Tania ap Sion, terrorist attack, Theology of Religions Index, Tony Spencer, Trevor Phillips, Wellcome Trust Monitor, YouGov, Young Christian Workers, young people, Youth Research Council, Zac Goldsmith
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Muslim Voices and Other News
Muslim voices There is no shortage of national opinion polls asking what Britons think about Islam and Muslims, but there have been relatively few surveys conducted among British Muslims in recent years. Only in the aftermath of the 9/11 … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, Survey news
Tagged adolescents, Anna Marcinkiewicz, BBC, census of population, Chantel Jones, character building, Christians, ComRes, David Graham, David Walker, halal, Health, Institute of Jewish Policy Research, Islamic State, Islamism, James Arthur, Jews, John Curtice, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, kosher, Kristján Kristjánsson, Leslie Francis, Mandy Robbins, Muslims, pre-stunning, Protestants, Rachel Ormston, Religious Affiliation, religious nones, Research in Education, Roman Catholics, RSPCA, Russia, Scotland, Scottish Government Social Research, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, sectarianism, slaughter of animals, Stephen Hinchliffe, Sunday Times, University of Birmingham, Wouter Sanderse, YouGov
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Supernatural, Superstition, and Other News
Supernatural and superstition UK adults are now more likely to believe in supernatural phenomena than in a God, according to a survey published on 27 March 2014. It was conducted by OnePoll among an online sample of 2,000 adults aged … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religious Census, Survey news
Tagged Believe, census of population, Church of England, Church Times, cohabitation, country of birth, health check, Israel, Linda Woodhead, Lord Ashcroft, Office for National Statistics, OnePoll, Populus, Religious Affiliation, Roman Catholics, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, supernatural, superstition, UKTV, WATCH
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Muslim Distinctiveness and Other News
Today’s round-up of eight religious statistical news stories leads on the first substantive output from an important and academic-led four-year-old sample survey of British Muslims. Muslim distinctiveness The distinctiveness of British Muslims is explored in a short but highly significant … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news
Tagged baby names, biblical names, British Social Attitudes Survey, Cathedrals, Catholic Herald, charitable giving, Charities Aid Foundation, Christian Research, Christianity, church attendance, Church of Scotland, Church Times, ComRes, confessions, Diocese of Lancaster, distinctiveness, England, fracking, Ipsos-MORI, Jewish Baby Directory, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Kristin Aune, Mathew Guest, Muslims, NatCen, Pope, Presbytery of Dunfermline, Religiosity, Religious Affiliation, religious organizations, Resonate, Ridhi Kashyap, Rob Warner, Roman Catholic Church, Sacrament of Reconciliation, ScotCen, Scotland, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, Social Capital, social conservatism, Sonya Sharma, university students, Valerie Lewis, volunteering
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Scottish Social Attitudes and Other News
Start your week with BRIN’s latest selection of British religious statistical news, comprising three sources of data on the contemporary scene plus a reassessment of religious belonging in the Edwardian era a century ago. Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2011 The … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Survey news
Tagged 21st Century Evangelicals, British Journal of Religious Education, Callum Brown, children, church attendance, church membership, Clive Field, education, Edwardian era, Evangelical Alliance, Faith schools, Halloween, Journal of Religious History, Lincolnshire, Mark Plater, Redbridge, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, religious education, religious festivals, ScotCen Social Research, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey
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