Author Archives: Clive D. Field

Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Clive D. Field

The recent Islamist outrages in France continued to dominate the news last week, being the most noted story for 74% of the 2,070 Britons interviewed online by Populus on 14-15 January 2015. However, the domestic research agenda has now broadened … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Anti-Semitism, British society, Campaign against Antisemitism, Charlie Hebdo, holocaust, integration, Islamist terrorism, Islamophobia, Israel, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Muslims, Nigel Farage, prejudice, Sunday Times, Survation, YouGov | 1 Comment

Je suis Charlie and Other News

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Last week’s news was dominated by a series of Islamist outrages in France, in which seventeen innocent people died, three police officers, four shoppers at a kosher supermarket, and ten journalists working for the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which in … Continue reading →

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Twixtmas News

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Hopefully, BRIN readers have had a good rest over Christmas. In case any of you ‘switched off’ from the religious statistical news during the festivities, here is a round-up of seven stories which made headlines between 24 and 29 … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, People news, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, Survey news | Tagged AB InBev, alcohol, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of Westminster, attributes of a democracy, Body Mass Index, Christmas carols, Christmas Day working, Christmas story, Classic FM, clergy, ComRes, Deborah Lycett, first-time voters, Health Survey for England, Jesus Christ, Journal of Religion and Health, Justin Welby, Labour Force Survey, moral leadership, Obesity, Office for National Statistics, Opinium Research, religious festivals, self-assessed religiosity, Sunday Times, The Observer, Vincent Nichols, YouGov | Leave a comment

Quantiphobia and Other News

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Quantiphobia Quantiphobia – the fear or suspicion of statistics – surfaces among religious leaders from time to time, and, of course, has some biblical foundation in David’s alleged sin in numbering the Israelites (2 Sam. 24:1-25, 1 Chron. 21:1-30). … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Anthony Christopher, Boko Haram, British Empire, canonizations, census of population, charitable donations, Christmas, Church Commissioners, Church Times, City AM, Edward Dowler, Eurobarometer, European Union, Islamic State, Islamism, Journal of Religious History, Office for National Statistics, Opinium Research, Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII, quantiphobia, Religious Affiliation, religious festivals, Roman Catholic Church, Salvation Army, TNS UK, traditions, values | Leave a comment

Quality of Religious Research

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Durham is the UK’s top-rated university for research in theology and religious studies, according to the results of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework or REF (successor to the Research Assessment Exercise, last held in 2008), which are published today … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion | Tagged higher education, REF, Research Excellence Framework, research quality | Leave a comment

Christmas Observance and Other News

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Christmas observance Prospect magazine has entered into the festive spirit by commissioning YouGov to run a few questions about how Britons observe Christmas, 1,927 adults being quizzed online on 13-14 November 2014. Nothing unusual about that, you might think … Continue reading →

Posted in People news, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged Brent Cross Shopping Centre, British Religion in Numbers, Christmas, Eurotrack, freedom of speech, Ipsos-MORI, Jesus Christ, Mortar, nativity, New Culture Forum, Peter Kellner, Pew Research Center, places of worship, Pope Francis, Prospect, religious festivals, religious knowledge, Social Integration Commission, Sunday Telegraph, YouGov | 1 Comment

Advent Pot-Pourri

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Correlates of belief The socio-structural and religious correlates of over-time belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, and sin are explored in a new article by Ben Clements published in the advance access edition of Journal of Beliefs … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Social Capital, Religious beliefs, Survey news | Tagged abortion, assisted suicide, Ben Clements, Bible Society, Bookseller, British Crime Survey, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, Christian Research, Christians in Sport, Church of England, Church Urban Fund, crime, debt, employment, European Values Study, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Journal of Religion in Europe, Julian Hargreaves, Labour Force Survey, Muslims, Nabil Khattab, nativity plays, Netmums, New Churches, religious beliefs, religious books, Resonate, Roman Catholics, Ron Johnston, schools, Social Science Journal, sport, Sunday Times, YouGov | Leave a comment

Jesus Test and Other News

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Clive D. Field

The Jesus test Jesus Christ is not often dragged into the contemporary British political arena, but, when He is, people tend to ask what He would do or think about a current situation (or, in a few cases, even … Continue reading →

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Sacred Texts and Other News

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Sacred texts The potential contribution of religious and sacred texts to the school curriculum is explored in new research published by the Bible Society on 20 November 2014. Commissioned from YouGov, it involved online interviews with samples of (a) … Continue reading →

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Bible Versus Darwin and Other News

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Bible versus Darwin Given a list of 30 books, and invited to select three which they considered to be most valuable to humanity (as opposed to having read or enjoyed), 37% of the 2,044 adult Britons recently questioned by … Continue reading →

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Author Archives: Clive D. Field

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