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Tag Archives: women bishops
Public attitudes towards women bishops
Given important recent developments in the long-running debate on the issue of women bishops in the Church of England, this post provides a brief review of topline and group attitudes using recent data from opinion polls. Several polls on the … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Behaving, believing, Belonging, Church of England, ComRes, gender equality, opinion polls, Opinium Research, ordination of women, public debate, religious belonging, Survey Data, women bishops, women clergy, YouGov
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Church of England Health Check and Other News
Church of England health check Further to our post of 31 January 2014, we now note the appearance of the second and third instalments of the ‘Church Health Check’ series being run in the Church Times. In the issue for … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news
Tagged abortion, Afghanistan, Andrew Village, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, census of population, Church of England, Church of Scotland, Church Times, Community Security Trust, Critical Research, David Voas, euthanasia, family, Fiona Tweedie, health check, Highlands and Islands, Hoge Intrinsic Religiosity Scale, homosexuality, Jews, leadership, Leslie Francis, Linda Woodhead, Mark Hookham, ministry, Mission and Discipleship Council, Modern Believing, non-churchgoers, parishes, Peter King, Queen’s Royal Hussars, Religious Affiliation, Roman Catholic Church, same-sex marriage, social impact, soldiers, Statistics for Mission Group, Steve Aisthorpe, Sunday Times, values, Vatican, volunteering, Westminster Faith Debates, women bishops, YouGov
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Easter Day with the Sunday Times
Just a fortnight after its last batch of questions on religion, the Sunday Times has taken advantage of its Easter Day publication to include another module in its weekly online omnibus poll conducted by YouGov. On this occasion, 1,918 Britons … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, church attendance, Church of England, Dipesh Gadher, Easter, God, homosexuality, importance of religion, in touch, Jesus Christ, Justin Welby, moral leadership, out of touch, parents, Pope Francis I, religious country, Resurrection, Rowan Williams, same-sex marriage, self-assessed religiosity, Son of God, Sunday Times, trust in clergy, women bishops, YouGov
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Sunday Times Religion Poll
YouGov conducts a weekly online poll for The Sunday Times, and today’s edition includes a special module on religion (with particular reference to attitudes to the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church), as well as analysing responses to … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Argentina, celibacy, child abuse, Church and State, Church of England, Coalition Government, David Cameron, extra-marital sex, Francis I, George Osborne, in touch, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Justin Welby, out of touch, politics, Pope, priests, Roman Catholic Church, same-sex marriage, South America, Sunday Times, welfare benefits, women bishops, 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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Teaching Christianity and Other News
Today’s round-up of religious news highlights poll data in support of the improved teaching of religious education (RE) in schools and presents a gender breakdown of last week’s vote on women bishops in the Church of England’s General Synod. Teaching … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged BBC Radio 4, benefits, Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, ComRes, Conservative Party, gender, General Synod, Nigel Fancourt, nones, Oxford University Department of Education, Populus, Religious Affiliation, religious education, schools, social welfare, teaching, welfare state, women bishops, YouGov
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After General Synod, Religion and Health
In today’s news round-up, BRIN covers a poll of public attitudes to current issues in the Church of England, following General Synod’s narrowest of rejections of women bishops, and some interesting research into the relationships between religion and health. Church … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Church of England, Equality Act 2010, equality groups, General Synod, homosexuality, Julie Ramsay, Karen MacNee, Measure for Women Bishops, NHS Health Scotland, out of touch, Parliament, Paul Whybrow, religion and health, Religious Affiliation, religious freedom, same-sex marriage, ScotCen Social Research, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish Health Survey, Sunday Times, women bishops, YouGov
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Churchgoers and the Recession and Other News
The following statistics appeared on Monday and Tuesday this week: Women bishops and the image of the Church of England Although the measure for women bishops yesterday narrowly failed to secure the necessary two-thirds majority in all three houses of the … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Survey news
Tagged Church of England, churchgoers, ComRes, educational background, ITV News, John Jerrim, moral influence, National Identity, personal finances, professions, recession, relevance, religious leaders, schools, Sutton Trust, universities, women bishops
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Sunday Times Religion Poll
The Sunday Times took advantage of the expected announcement of the appointment of Justin Welby as the next Archbishop of Canterbury (eventually confirmed on 9 November) to include several questions on religion in the latest weekly omnibus poll which YouGov … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Durham, church attendance, Church of England, God, higher power, homosexuality, Justin Welby, politics, Rowan Williams, same-sex marriage, Sunday Times, women bishops, YouGov
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