Tag Archives: women

Women in Jewish Leadership

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Clive D. Field

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 →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Commission on Women in Jewish Leadership, Jewish Leadership Council, Jews, SurveyMonkey, volunteering, women | Leave a comment

Churching of Women

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Clive D. Field

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 →

Posted in Historical studies, Rites of Passage | Tagged Berkshire, childbirth, Church of England, churching, liturgy, London, Margaret Houlbrooke, rites of passage, Southwark, Staffordshire, thanksgivings, women | Leave a comment

Honour Crimes

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Clive D. Field

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 →

Posted in Religion and Ethnicity, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Asians, BBC, ComRes, honour crimes, honour killings, izzat, Panorama, physical punishment, women | 8 Comments

Women’s Representation in the Church in Wales

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The Governing Body of the Church in Wales met at the University of Wales, Trinity St David on 21 and 22 September 2011. One of the items on its agenda was a report from Dr Gill Todd of the Diocese … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Organisational data | Tagged Church in Wales, churchwardens, clergy, diocesan boards of finance, finance, Gill Todd, Governing Body, Lord Rowe-Beddoe, membership, parochial church councils, representation, Representative Body, Richard Jones, women | Leave a comment

Group-Focused Enmity in Europe

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Fresh light on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Britain is shed in a report published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin on 11 March 2011. Entitled Intolerance, Prejudice and Discrimination: A European Report, it is written by Andreas Zick, Beate Kupper and … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Alliance Publishing Trust, Andreas Hovermann, Andreas Zick, Anti-Semitism, Beate Kupper, Bielefeld Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, holocaust, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Jews, Muslims, Palestinians, prejudice, self-assessed religiosity, terrorism, TNS, women | Leave a comment

Domestic Abuse and British Jews

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Clive D. Field

We reported four months ago (http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=718) that Jewish Women’s Aid (JWA), the UK national charity for Jewish women and their children affected by domestic violence, was intending to carry out an online survey into the incidence and perceptions of domestic … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Cora Peterson, domestic abuse, Jewish Women's Aid, Jews, rabbis, Sarah Abramson, violence, women | Leave a comment

Feminism and Religion

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Women have historically scored more highly than men on most indicators of religious belief and practice, but there have been signs in recent years that the situation may be changing, as females succumb to secularization, and apparently nowhere is this … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged agnostics, atheists, British Social Attitudes Survey, Catherine Redfern, feminism, Kendal, Kristin Aune, secularization, spirituality, third-wave feminism, women | Leave a comment

Jewish Women’s Aid

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Jewish Women’s Aid (JWA), the only UK national charity for Jewish women and their children affected by domestic violence, has launched the first ever survey into the incidence and perceptions of domestic abuse against women in the Jewish community. It … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations | Tagged domestic abuse, domestic violence, Jewish Women's Aid, Jews, Sarah Abramson, women | 1 Comment

Roman Catholic Opinion

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The recent spate of surveys triggered by the forthcoming papal visit continues with the publication this morning of a ComRes poll of a random sample of 500 UK Catholics conducted for the BBC between 6 and 9 September. Interviews were … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Andrew Hawkins, BBC, British society, Catholic faith, celibacy, children, ComRes, leadership, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, sexual abuse, women | 2 Comments

Battle of the Burka

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Clive D. Field

As might have been expected, the recent near-unanimous vote by the lower house of the French Parliament in favour of a ban on the wearing of full-face veils in public has prompted a further test of popular opinion on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Burka, Channel 5 News, face-veils, Islamophobia, Muslims, religious dress, women, YouGov | 2 Comments

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