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Counting Religion in Britain, September 2017
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
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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 4, January 2016 features 25 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 4 January 2016 OPINION POLLS Nones On 19 January 2016 Professor Linda … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Alan Munden, Andrea Silberman, Andrew Atherstone, Anthony Tricot, Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Urban Priority Areas, Baptist ministry, Baptist Union of Great Britain, Bashar al-Assad, BMG Research, Brierley Consultancy, Bristol and Gloucestershire, British Academy, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire Records Society, Cathedrals, census of population, Censuswide, Charlie Hebdo, Christian Research, Christine Brewster, Christmas, Christopher Stephens, church attendance, Church of England, Church of England Record Centre, clergy, clergy and priests, ComRes, cost of living, Daily Record, David Thompson, death, Donald Trump, Douglas Davies, economic impact, English language skills, entry ban, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, Evening Standard, Faith in the City, Gallup Poll, Gemma Penny, Gloucestershire Record Series, ground troops, hate crimes, Health, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, human rights, Huntingdonshire, Ignite Project Team, Ipsos-MORI, Iraq, Islamic State, Jayne Ozanne, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish lifestyle, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Judith Muskett, Kareena McAloney-Kocaman, Kelvin Randall, Labour Force Survey, labour market penalties, LBC Radio, Leslie Francis, Lia Dong Shimada, Linda Woodhead, London, Mandy Robbins, Mental Health Religion and Culture, Methodist Church, Muslim women, Muslims, Nabil Khattab, New West End Company, Oxera Consulting, Patrick Laycock, Peter Brierley, prayer request, proficiency in English, psychological well-being, radicalization, Religious Affiliation, religious census, Religious discrimination, religious nones, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, retail employees, rites of passage, same-sex marriage, Scotland, Scottish church census, Skaiste Liepyte, Southwark Cathedral, St Vincent de Paul Society, Stanley Brunn, stress, Sunday trading, Survation, Syria, Tania ap Sion, Tariq Modood, terror attack, The Changing World Religion Map, The Tablet, threat, truth, Urban Priority Areas, veracity, visiting and befriending, YouGov
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Scrooging Christmas and Other News
Christmas has become such a secular festival in contemporary Britain that one might have thought that even non-religious people would have no difficulty in joining in, but our first story today shows a disproportionate dislike for Christmas on their part. … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Official data, People news, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news, visualisation
Tagged Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, Catholic schools, census of population, Christian conferences, Christmas, church growth, clergy, David Martin, Fair Admissions Campaign, Faith schools, gender equality, God Loves Women, Greater London, InFuse, Ipsos-MORI, Jewish Chronicle, Natalie Collins, Office for National Statistics, professionals, religious admissions criteria, Religious Affiliation, religious festivals, Sociology of Religion, trust, truth, women, YouGov
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Trust in Clergy and Other News
While waiting for the first tests of public opinion to the sudden resignation of Benedict XVI as Pope, here is a batch of six recently-published sources of British religious statistics on a miscellany of subjects. Trust in clergy Clergy/priests are … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged abstinence, beginning of human life, bereavement, Bishops, Church of England, churchgoing, clergy, ComRes, conception, episcopate, gay bishops, Ipsos-MORI, Lent, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Michael Keulemans, Philip Brenner, priests, Religious Affiliation, religious festivals, Sociology of Religion, trust, truth, Westminster Faith Debates, women bishops, Xlibris, YouGov
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Psychics
The age of reason has not yet fully dawned, apparently. Almost one-quarter of British adults claim to have consulted a psychic or medium, even though many fewer (one in seven) believe that these intermediaries have a real ability to predict … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged mediums, psychics, self-assessed spirituality, truth, YouGov
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Veracity of Clergy
Clergy and priests are the sixth most trustworthy group in society, according to an Ipsos MORI poll for the British Medical Association and published on 27 June. Fieldwork was conducted on 10-16 June 2011 among 1,026 adults aged 15 and … Continue reading
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Tagged British Medical Association, clergy, Ipsos-MORI, priests, trustworthiness, truth, veracity
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