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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2017
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 18, March 2017 features 25 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 18 March 2017 OPINION POLLS Belief at work ‘British employers struggle to manage … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion Online, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news
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Counting Religion in Britain, June 2016
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 9, June 2016 features 24 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 9 June 2016 OPINION POLLS – BREXIT The referendum on the United Kingdom’s … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Organisational data, People news, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious prejudice, Survey news
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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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Halloween and Other News
Today (1 November) is All Saints’ Day or All Hallows’ Day. Tomorrow (2 November) is All Souls’ Day. Yesterday (31 October) was All Hallows’ Eve or Halloween. At one time, these were all important Christian festivals, but now Halloween has … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Channel 4, clergy, ComRes, corpus linguistics, Costas Gabrielatos, council prayers, discourse analysis, full face veils, Halloween, Islam, Islamophobia, Mail on Sunday, media, Muslims, newspapers, niqab, Paul Baker, professionals, religious dress, religious festivals, telling the truth, Tony McEnery, veils, veracity, Westminster Abbey Institute, women, YouGov
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From St George to Prince George
Prince George and St George both feature in today’s round-up of religious statistical news, which contains five items. Prince George’s christening The private christening ceremony for His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, which took place yesterday (23 October 2013), … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, BBC, British Future, christening, Church of England, clergy, ComRes, Englishness, face coverings, Faith in the World Week, ICM Research, Islamophobia, loneliness, ministry, Muslims, niqab, patron saints, Peter Brierley, Prince George of Cambridge, religious dress, religious faith, rites of passage, Sky News, St George, Survation, veils, women, YouGov
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Gender and Religion and Other News
Today BRIN features the third instalment of findings from the YouGov poll commissioned in connection with the 2013 series of Westminster Faith Debates, plus the usual miscellany of other British religious statistical news. Gender and religion There is little public … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Survey news, visualisation
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Welcome to 2013
Welcome to 2013! All of us at BRIN wish our readers every success and happiness in the New Year. We thank you for using our website (there have been over 360,000 page views to date). We sincerely hope that not … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
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Women in Jewish Leadership
Women are underrepresented in the leadership of the Jewish community in the UK, and there is strong (83%) grass-roots support for action to address the shortfall, including 56% backing for the setting of targets and 35% for the introduction of … Continue reading
Churching of Women
The churching of women (the service of purification, blessing and thanksgiving in celebration of a mother’s personal achievement of childbirth) is a rite of passage which has both biblical and pagan roots, although its liturgical expression in England can only … Continue reading
Honour Crimes
Almost two-thirds (69%) of young British Asians aged 16-34 consider that families should live according to the concept of ‘honour’ or ‘izzat’. The proportion is lowest among Asian Christians (62%) and Hindus (64%) and greatest for Muslims (70%) and Sikhs (79%). This is one of the findings of a ComRes poll undertaken on behalf of the BBC as background for a Panorama special on ‘Britain’s Crimes of Honour’, being broadcast tonight (BBC One, 8.30 pm). Continue reading
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Tagged Asians, BBC, ComRes, honour crimes, honour killings, izzat, Panorama, physical punishment, women
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