Author Archives: Clive D. Field

More Census Data and Other News

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Clive D. Field

It is a matter of two quantitative steps forward and one back this week. On the upside, more religion data have been released from the 2011 census and new survey research has been commissioned for the 2013 Westminster Faith Debates. … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion in public debate, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Catholic Directory of England and Wales, census of population, Charles Clarke, Linda Woodhead, Office for National Statistics, personal life, Peter Brierley, religious census, Roman Catholic Church, The Tablet, Tony Spencer, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov | Leave a comment

Demographics of Atheism

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Clive D. Field

On 7 December 2012 Atheist Alliance International, a global network of atheist and freethought groups and individuals, launched its so-called Atheist Census online, in order ‘to count and collect demographic information on the world’s atheists’. It was relaunched on 16 … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion Online | Tagged atheism, Atheist Alliance International, Atheist Census, non-religion, Stewart Ware | Leave a comment

North African Islamism and Other News

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Clive D. Field

The threat posed by Islamism in North Africa is the lead story in today’s round-up of religious statistical news, with two of the other three items concerning the role of religion in state education. North African Islamism Recent events … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged EBacc, English Baccalaureate, Faith schools, Islamism, Islamist militants, Movement for Married Clergy, NASUWT, National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, North Africa, priests, Prospect, religious education, Roman Catholic Church, state schools, terrorism, YouGov | 1 Comment

Britishness and Other News

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Clive D. Field

The lead item in today’s round-up of religious statistical news sheds some light on the phenomenon of cultural Christianity which arises in connection with the 2011 religious census. In keeping with BRIN’s objectives, we also find space for some historical … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged ACT Network, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, British Future, Britishness, Buckinghamshire, Christianity, Church of England, Clive Field, Diocese of Lincoln, Diocese of Salisbury, Ecclesiastical Insurance, Geoff Knott, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Ipsos-MORI, John Broad, jubilee, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, metal theft, Oxford University Press, Rachael Jolley, Shute Barrington, social action, tensions, visitation returns, volunteering, William Wake, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine | 1 Comment

Anglican Comments on the Census and Other News

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Clive D. Field

The results of the 2011 religion census for England and Wales continue to reverberate around faith communities. The lead item in today’s BRIN post concerns coverage of the census in the country’s conservative evangelical newspaper for the Church of England. … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Arun Arora, census of population, Christmas, Church of England, Church of England Newspaper, Coalition for Marriage, ComRes, House of Lords, Paul Richardson, Peter Brierley, Religious Affiliation, religious festivals, Roman Catholic Church, same-sex marriage, The Times, Twitter | Leave a comment

Attitudes to Muslims

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Clive D. Field

The year 2012 ended with the revelation that the Muslim community in England and Wales had grown by 75% between the 2001 and 2011 censuses of population. This basic demographic fact, combined with the increasingly prominent role and voice which … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Ben Clements, British Social Attitudes Surveys, cartoon, Charlie Hebdo, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, hate crime, Innocence of Muslims, integration, Islam, Islamophobia, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Muslims, offence, Prophet Muhammad, solidarity of the religious, United States, YouGov, Youtube | 3 Comments

Mental Health and Other News

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Today’s round-up of religious statistical news leads on some freshly-published research into spirituality and mental health. We also report on another survey about same-sex marriage and the Church of England (for other recent polls, see our posts of 13 and … Continue reading →

Posted in People news, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged Andrew Grice, British Journal of Psychiatry, Church of England, clergy, ComRes, homosexuality, Howard Meltzer, Linda Woodhead, Louise Marston, Mental Health, Michael King, National Centre for Social Research, New Year's Honours, Paul Bebbington, religious marriages, Sally McManus, same-sex marriage, spirituality, Terry Brugha, The Independent | Leave a comment

Welcome to 2013

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Clive D. Field

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 | Tagged 1960s, Archbishop of Canterbury, Automobile Association, Bishops, Boydell Press, Callum Brown, Christmas carols, Church Commissioners, Church of England, Classic FM, costs, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, demography, Hannah Stuart, Henry Jackson Society, Houriya Ahmed, media, Muslim Council of Britain, number 13, O Holy Night, Populus, public sphere, religious festivals, secularization, superstitions, The Guardian, triskaidekaphobia, vehicle registration plates, women | 2 Comments

2011 Census – Searching for Explanations

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Clive D. Field

The general direction of travel revealed by the 2011 census results for religion in England and Wales, published on 11 December 2012, in relation to those for 2001 (when the question was first asked) came as no surprise. However, many … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religious Census, Research note, Rites of Passage | Tagged British Humanist Association, census of population, Christians, Church of England, cohort replacement, David Voas, disaffiliation, Eric Kaufmann, head of household, international migrants, natural growth, non-response, nones, Office for National Statistics, Pew Research Center, question-wording, Religious Affiliation, rites of passage, Steve Bruce, under coverage, write-in replies | 1 Comment

BRIN’s Christmas Crackers

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Our jokes may be as bad, but hopefully our content is more informative than the average Christmas cracker’s! In this our last round-up of religious statistical news before Christmas, we feature eight stories which will hopefully be of interest to … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Andrew Brown, Bible Society, Brian Grim, census of population, Christmas cards, Christmas carols, Church Times, Conrad Hackett, Daily Telegraph, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, evangelism, Global Religious Landscape, ICM Research, Lord Ashcroft, membership of religious groups, Michael Ashcroft, nativity knowledge, Nielsen, Office for National Statistics, Pew Research Center, Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, Religious Affiliation, religious festivals, RoxyPalace, The Guardian, Twitter, Wales, Welsh Government | 2 Comments

Author Archives: Clive D. Field

More Census Data and Other News

Demographics of Atheism

North African Islamism and Other News

Anglican Comments on the Census and Other News

Welcome to 2013

2011 Census – Searching for Explanations

BRIN’s Christmas Crackers

Recent News

Recent Sources

Archives

Recent Comments

2 responses to “BRIN’s Christmas Crackers”

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