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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2021

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 67, April 2021 features 11 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 67 April 2021 … Continue reading →

Posted in Covid-19, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Education, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Action of Churches Together in Scotland, Anti-Semitism, Ben Clements, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Brendan Research, Brexit, British Sikh Report, Bryony Loveless, Church of England, Church Urban Fund, collective worship, coronavirus, Covid-19, David Peter Noble, Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, Euroscepticism, Hertfordshire, Islamophobia, Jessamin Birdsall, Jews, Labour Party, morality, mortality, Muslim Census, Muslims, priesthood, Primitive Methodism, religious prejudice, Review of Religious Research, Roman Catholic Church, Routledge, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce, Savanta ComRes, Scotland, Scottish Church Leaders’ Forum, social action, Social Capital, Stephen Bullivant, Stuart Fox, support, TES, Tom Sefton, United Synagogue | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, November 2018

Posted on December 2, 2018 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 38, November 2018 features 20 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 38 November 2018 … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, People news, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged Aliens, Aly Hawkins, Anti-Semitism, Barna Group, BBC Radio 5 Live, Bill of Rights, British Journal of Sociology of Education, carols, Ceri Peach, charitable giving, Chester-le-Street, child sexual abuse, Christmas traditions, church attendance, church growth, church membership, Church of England, Church of England Newspaper, church social action, clergy, CNN, ComRes, conspiracy theories, Constitutional Commission, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Diane Houston, digital evangelism, discrimination, distance to church, Dominic Abrams, equal opportunities, Equality and Human Rights Commission, freedom of religion, FutureFirst, gender pay gap, God, Hannah Swift, higher force, holocaust, Ideal Home Show Christmas, Immigration, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Ipsos-MORI, Islamophobia, Israel, Jews, Journal of Anglican Studies, laws, Muslims, Nabil Khattab, NatCen Social Research, National Church Institutions, Oxford Mail, Panelbase, Peter Brierley, Pew Research Center, Philip Lockley, Populus, poverty, religious institutions, religious leaders, religious prejudice, rites of passage, Sarah Salisbury, school performance, Scotland, sex, sexual relationship, social action, Social Capital, Social Distance, social media, Survation, Tariq Modood, Tearfund, Theos, trust, truth, Veracity Index, World Jewish Relief, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge | 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 →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged Anastasi Church, Annual Population Survey, anti-Israelism, Anti-Semitism, Arab News, Arab world, attendance at religious services, BBC, benefit, Bible, black and minority ethnic persons, British Social Attitudes Survey, British Veterinary Association, Canada, census of population, Christians, Church in Wales, church membership, Church of England, Church Urban Fund, clergy, Clive Field, Commission on Religious Education, ComRes, Council for Arab-British Understanding, Creationism, Critical Research, damage, Daniel Staetsky, ethnic group, evolution, Experiences of Ministry, extremist content, Fair Admissions Campaign, Faith schools, food poverty, Food Standards Agency, France, funerals, Generation Z, Germany, home help, Hounslow, Humanist Society Scotland, ICM Unlimited, importance of religion, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, internet, Ipsos-MORI, Islamic State, Israel, Jews, Kate Forbes, Legatum Institute, Lidl, Living Ministry, Liz Graveling, Mass-Observation, Mike Clinton, ministers, Muslims, NatCen Social Research, National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, Newman University, Olga Cara, ordinands, Origin of Species, Palestine, Policy Exchange, Populus, prayer, priests, radicalization, RE Today Services, Religious Affiliation, religious education, Religious Education Council of England and Wales, religious prejudice, religious slaughter of animals, religious symbols, rites of passage, science, Scientific and Medical Network, Scotland, Second World War, self-assessed religiosity, Serve Scotland, Sikhs, Social Capital, spirituality, SunLife, Survation, terrorist acts, The Times, theologians, Tim Ling, Trades Union Congress, trust, truth, veracity, violence, wellbeing, Wolverhampton, workplace discrimination, World Jewish Relief, YouGov | Leave a comment

Mid-Summer Miscellany

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Clive D. Field

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 | Leave a comment

Good Death and Other News

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Good death Time was when religion was the cardinal attribute of a ‘good death’. But no more, it seems, according to a ComRes survey for the National Council for Palliative Care published on 18 May 2015, for which 2,016 … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged Abdul-Azim Ahmed, Anti-Semitism, British Future, Canterbury Cathedral, Cinnamon Network, ComRes, Daniel Staetsky, end-of-life care, ethnic minorities, faith-based social action, general election, good death, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Islam, Islamic State, Jonathan Boyd, Mercure Hotels, Muslims, National Council for Palliative Care, On Religion, OnePoll, RAF, religious/spiritual needs, Show Racism the Red Card, Social Capital, St Paul's Cathedral, Survation, UKTV, voting, Westminster Abbey, YouGov, young people | Leave a comment

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

Demography of Churchgoing and Other News

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Demography of churchgoing Fresh insights into the demographic composition of British churchgoers, with particular reference to the number and position of single people, are provided in a series of three reports which have been published since the beginning of … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged Anti-Semitism, B+B owners, Christian Research, Christian Vision for Men, church attendance, David Pullinger, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, freedom of expression, Islamic State, Israel, Jews, John Taylor, John Wesley, Libya, Methodism, Methodist Recorder, Network Christians, Office for National Statistics, politics, Prospect, religious group membership, same-sex couples, Single Christians, single people, Social Capital, Sunday Times, Veronique Siegler, YouGov | Leave a comment

British Academy Recognition and Other News

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Clive D. Field

BRIN secures British Academy recognition The British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, announced on 23 July 2014 that BRIN is to be one of fine new Academy Research Projects in the social sciences. … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Social Capital, Religious Census, Survey news, visualisation | Tagged alien, Anthony Allison, Anti-Semitism, British Academy, British Religion in Numbers, Church Urban Fund, community activities, ComRes, DataShine, Faith and Belief Scotland, Gaza, importance of religion, Ipsos Global Trends, Ipsos-MORI, Israel, Katherine Sissons, Nonreligion & Secularity, Open Theology, organized religion, Palestinians, Paul Bickley, Public Sector Equality Duty, Religious Affiliation, religious census, religious revival, Scotland, Scottish Government, secularization, Social Capital, Steve Bruce, Theos, United Reformed Church, visualization, YouGov | Leave a comment

Muslim Distinctiveness and Other News

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Clive D. Field

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 | Leave a comment

Vicar of Dibley and Other News

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Clive D. Field

You can tell that it is the mid-summer ‘silly season’, when hard news is more difficult to come by, if BRIN has to lead a post on the fictional sitcom The Vicar of Dibley! However, we also find space for … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, People news, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Aliens, Alternative Queen's Speech, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, Archbishop of Canterbury, Ask Jeeves, atheism, Burka, census of population, Church of England, community projects, Community Security Trust, Conservative MPs, David Graham, David Ward, Diocese of London, face coverings, God, haredim, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Islamophobia, Israel, Jesus Christ, Justin Welby, Liberal Democrat Voice, Liberal Democrats, Opinium Research, payday loans, predictions, Religious Affiliation, religious dress, Rev, Second Coming, Social Capital, television comedies, The Times, u-turns, Vicar of Dibley, Wonga, YouGov | Leave a comment

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