Category Archives: Historical studies

British Social Attitudes Survey, 2010

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Clive D. Field

‘Britain is becoming less religious, with the numbers who affiliate with a religion or attend religious services experiencing a long-term decline. And this trend seems set to continue; not only as older, more religious generations are replaced by younger, less … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Survey news | Tagged British Social Attitudes Survey, church attendance, Lucy Lee, NatCen, National Centre for Social Research, Religious Affiliation, school choice, Sonia Exley | 2 Comments

Baptist Times (1855-2011)

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The Baptist Times, Britain’s longest-running weekly Free Church newspaper, is to cease publication of both print and digital editions at the end of this year, its directors have announced recently. Falling circulation and advertising revenue have been blamed. The paper … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion in the Press | Tagged Baptist Times, newspapers, religious press | 3 Comments

Restudies of Religion in English and Welsh Communities

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Steve Bruce, who has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen since 1991, has been engaged since 2007 on an extended reappraisal of religious change in Britain since 1945, made possible by the award of a Leverhulme Trust … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Measuring religion, Organisational data, People news | Tagged Alwyn Rees, Anne Murcott, Banbury, Bill Pickering, Billingham, Church of England, Colin Bell, community studies, Contemporary Wales, County Durham, David Clark, Deerness Valley, Eric Batstone, Isabel Emmett, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Llanfihangel yng Ngwynfa, Llanfrothen Ffestiniog, Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog, Llanuwchllyn-Llangower, Margaret Stacey, Methodism, mining, Northern History, Oxfordshire, Peter Kaim-Caudle, Peterlee, Rawmarsh, restudies, Robert Moore, Ronald Frankenberg, Scunthorpe, secularization, Sociological Review, Staithes, Steve Bruce, Trefor Owen, Upper Teesdale, Wales, Yorkshire | Leave a comment

Church of England Resumes Normal Service

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Great news for statisticians! The Church of England has decided to resume publication of Church Statistics in something like its traditional form. This was discontinued in 2006 following the appearance of the edition for 2004/05, and in favour of what … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Ethnicity | Tagged church attendance, church finance, church membership, Church of England, Church Statistics, clergy, licensed ministry, Research and Statistics Department Archbishops' Council | Leave a comment

Telling the Story of the 2001 Religious Census

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Much has been written about the results of the religion question in the 2001 census of population of Great Britain, but rather less is known about how that question came to be asked in the first place. This followed a four-year … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Official data, Religion and Politics | Tagged Census, Jamil Sherif, John Dixie, Journal of Beliefs & Values, Leslie Francis, Muslim Council of Britain, Office for National Statistics, Religious Affiliation | Leave a comment

Trends in Anglican Confirmations, 1872-2009

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Siobhan McAndrew

There has been some discussion in the press regarding Kate Middleton’s recent confirmation as an Anglican, and so I thought I would look up the extant data. Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Measuring religion, Religion in the Press, Rites of Passage | Tagged Church of England, Confirmation, Kate Middleton | 3 Comments

Assessing the Decade of Evangelism

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Resolution 43 of the 1988 Lambeth Conference called on ‘each province and diocese of the Anglican Communion, in co-operation with other Christians, to make the closing years of this millennium a “Decade of Evangelism” with a renewed and united emphasis … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies | Tagged Andrew Village, church growth, Church of England, clergy, Decade of Evangelism, Leslie Francis, Patrick Laycock, Review of Religious Research | 1 Comment

Future of the Global Muslim Population

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The long-awaited Pew report on The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Projections for 2010-2030 was eventually published yesterday by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life. The Forum, based in Washington DC, is a non-partisan organization … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Measuring religion, News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate | Tagged cohort-component method, demography, fertility, Forum on Religion and Public Life, Immigration, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Islam, Muslims, Pew Research Center, Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project | Leave a comment

Religious Crisis of the 1960s: The Debate Continues

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Hard on the heels of Love Now, Pay Later? (SPCK, 2010), a major reappraisal by Nigel Yates of religion and morality in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s (see our earlier post at http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=701), in which the author both explicitly … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies | Tagged 1960s, Callum Brown, Gerald Parsons, Hugh McLeod, Ian Randall, Nigel Yates, Simon Green | Leave a comment

Religious Archives

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The origins of record-keeping in this country are primarily religious, rather than secular. The state was a remarkably late entrant on the scene. Thus, until well into the nineteenth century, the registration of births, marriages and deaths and the proving … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Survey news | Tagged Archives and Records Association, National Register of Archives, religious archives, Religious Archives Group, The National Archives | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Historical studies

Baptist Times (1855-2011)

Restudies of Religion in English and Welsh Communities

Church of England Resumes Normal Service

Telling the Story of the 2001 Religious Census

Trends in Anglican Confirmations, 1872-2009

Assessing the Decade of Evangelism

Future of the Global Muslim Population

Religious Crisis of the 1960s: The Debate Continues

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