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Tag Archives: sectarianism
Counting Religion in Britain, August 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 11, August 2016 features 25 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 11 August 2016 OPINION POLLS Weddings in church Only 11% of Britons now … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religion Online, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news
Tagged Anti-Semitism, British government, British Social Attitudes Survey, British Veterinary Association, Carl Miller, church attendance, church growth, church leaders, Church of England, Church Times, church weddings, Community Security Trust, Demos, DIY, Dominic Abrams, economic migrants, employment, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Ephraim Borowski, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Eurotrack, Faith schools, Fiona Frank, Fiona Tweedie, Food Standards Agency, football, GCE A Levels, GCSE O Levels, ground troops, Hannah Swift, House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee, Immigration, importance of religion, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos-MORI, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Jack Dale, Jeremy Morris, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Labour Movement, Jews, Joint Council for Qualifications, Jonathan Boyd, Josh Smith, Journal of Religion in Europe, Labour Party, Leah Granat, Linda Woodhead, Lynsey Mahmood, military force, Muslims, NatCen Social Research, Owen Smith, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Premier, public examinations, Religious Affiliation, religious conversion, Religious discrimination, religious prejudice, religious studies, rites of passage, ritual slaughter of animals, SAS, SchoolDash, Scotland, Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, sectarianism, secularization, social action, sociology, solemnization of marriages, stunning, Sunday Telegraph, Survation, Syria, terrorism, The Times, tweets, Twitter, World Jewish Relief, YouGov, Youth Social Action Survey
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Mid-Summer Miscellany
Christian voters: post-election A ComRes poll for Tearfund published on 17 June 2015, and conducted online between 14 and 17 May, revealed details of how 1,507 practising (churchgoing) UK Christians had engaged with the 2015 general election on 7 … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged BMEs, Bright Blue, church attendance, church growth, Church of Scotland, Civic Engagement, ComRes, David Voas, Ethnic Minority British Election Survey, European Sociological Review, European Values Study, football matches, general election, Geoff Knott, Immigration, Ingrid Storm, Islamic Relief, Islamophobia, Jubilee Plus, Loek Halman, Mark Littler, Matthew Feldman, Muslims, National Church and Social Action Surveys, Neil Davidson, Nienke Moor, OnePoll, practising Christians, Ramadan, religious freedom, religious prejudice, religiously aggravated offending, Scotland, sectarianism, secularization, Social Capital, Stefanie Doebler, Sunday Times, Survation, Tearfund, Teesside University, Tell MAMA, voting, Wil Arts, YouGov
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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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Bible Versus Darwin and Other News
Bible versus Darwin Given a list of 30 books, and invited to select three which they considered to be most valuable to humanity (as opposed to having read or enjoyed), 37% of the 2,044 adult Britons recently questioned by … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Survey news
Tagged Association for Promoting Retreats, Ben Wilson, Bible, blasphemy, Catholic Directory, Charles Darwin, Christian Institute, Church and State, church attendance, Church of England, ComRes, disestablishment, Equality Here Now, Folio Society, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, Islamic State, ITV News, Jewish News, Jews, joiners and leavers, Koran, Origin of Species, Pastoral Research Centre Trust, Religious Liberty, retreats, Roman Catholic Church, Scottish Affairs, sectarianism, Steve Bruce, Sunday Times, Syria, television and film, Tony Spencer, voting, YouGov
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Mid-Summer Miscellany
Burka The burka (and thus Islam) has been in the news again during the past week, partly because the European Court of Human Rights has upheld France’s ban on wearing the full face-veil in public (a similar ban also … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged Association of Convenience Stores, Burka, Catholic Directory, church, clergy, Clive Field, ComRes, Contemporary British History, crime, Islamophobia, Janine McKenna, jihad, Kathryn Skivington, Muslims, Opinium Research, Pastoral Research Centre, religious authority, religious dress, religious hatred, Roman Catholic Church, Scotland, Scottish Government Social Research, sectarianism, secularization, Sunday Times, Sunday trading, Tony Spencer, YouGov
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Religiously Aggravated Offending in Scotland, 2010-11
The Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament is meeting next Tuesday to consider Stage 2 amendments to the (relatively controversial) Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill, nicknamed the ‘Football Act’, which will give Scottish police more powers … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate
Tagged Angela Morgan, Ben Cavanagh, crime, football, hate crime, Kathleen Doyle, Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill, Protestantism, religiously aggravated offending, Roman Catholicism, Scotland, Scottish Government, sectarianism
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Sectarianism in Scotland
The recent resurgence of sectarianism in Scottish football is overwhelmingly condemned by Scots, according to a poll commissioned by the Scottish Government, and published on 4 September to coincide with the commencement of Scottish parliamentary scrutiny of the Offensive Behaviour … Continue reading
Catholics in Scottish Prisons
Roman Catholics continue to be overrepresented in Scotland’s prison population, but the situation appears to be improving slowly. Catholics accounted for 28% of Scottish prisoners in 2001, 24% in 2006 and 23% in 2008-09, whereas they constituted 16% of all … Continue reading