Category Archives: Historical studies

Religion and Morality in the 1950s and 1960s

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Clive D. Field

We reported in the summer on the ongoing scholarly debate about ‘When was secularization?’ (in Britain) – see http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=347. In particular, we noted the arguments of Professor Callum Brown for regarding the 1960s as the major tipping-point on the trajectory … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies | Tagged 1950s, 1960s, morality, Nigel Yates, sex, sexual revolution | 2 Comments

Counting Catholics

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

Andrew Brown of the Guardian has just written a very interesting article on the problems of calculating the size of the Catholic community. The Catholic Church defines the Catholic community as those people who have been baptised living within England and Wales. Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Measuring religion, Religion in the Press | Tagged Alan Gilbert, Andrew Brown, baptisms, Catholic Directory, Churches and Churchgoers, Lee Horsley, Pastoral Research Centre, Peter Brierley, religious trends, Robert Currie, Roman Catholics, Tony Spencer | 2 Comments

Religious Census of Berkshire in 1851

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Clive D. Field

On 30 March 1851, for the first and last time, a government survey of religious accommodation and attendance was undertaken throughout Great Britain as part of the decennial census of population. Information was gathered from the minister or lay official in … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies | Tagged 1851 Religious Census, Berkshire, Kate Tiller, Primitive Methodism, Samuel Wilberforce | Leave a comment

Religious Equality

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Pat Thane has edited a new book exploring seven aspects of inequality in Britain since the Second World War, including religious. Entitled Unequal Britain: Equalities in Britain since 1945 (London: Continuum, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84706-298-7), its contributors are all associated with … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies | Tagged discrimination, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Liza Filby, religious inequality | Leave a comment

Turbulent Times

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Clive D. Field

BRIN readers keen to understand the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990 will find helpful a book which was published by Continuum on 22 July. Entitled Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Religion in public debate | Tagged Anglo-Jewry, Ben Gidley, Jews, Judaism, Keith Kahn-Harris, multiculturalism, reflexivity | Leave a comment

Long-Living Methodists

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The current issue (24 June 2010, p. 2) of the Methodist Recorder, the weekly newspaper for Methodists in Great Britain, reports the death of Stanley Lucas of Cornwall. Aged 110 (he was born on 15 January 1900), he was thought … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations | Tagged abstinence, Clive Field, death, demography, Kenneth Brown, life expectancy, Methodism, Methodist Recorder, mortality, Tim Allison | 3 Comments

Authority and Governance in the Roman Catholic Church

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Roehampton University announced on 16 June that its Archives and Special Collections are now home to the ‘Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain, 1998–2002: The Queen’s Foundation Authority and Governance Archive’. The following post incorporates some edited extracts from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies | Tagged authority, governance, Queen's Foundation, Roehampton University, Roman Catholic Church | Leave a comment

When was Secularization?

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Secularization continues to be a hotly-debated topic with academics, especially among sociologists and historians. There is certainly no consensus about its nature, timing and causation, while a few would even dispute its very existence. The latest contribution to the literature … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies | Tagged Callum Brown, secularization, Steve Bruce, Tony Glendinning | 1 Comment

The New Anti-Semitism

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Clive D. Field

In his massive new book, Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England (Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-929705-4, £25.00), Anthony Julius devotes two long and controversial chapters to the ‘new anti-Semitism’, which emerged (according to him) in … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Survey news | Tagged Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, BBC World Service, GlobeScan, Israel, PIPA | Leave a comment

Zion’s People: Profile of English Nonconformity

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Protestant Nonconformity, formerly known as Religious Dissent and latterly as the Free Churches, has made a major contribution to all walks of British life, not just the religious. The movement had its origins in the puritans and separatists of Elizabethan … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Measuring religion | Tagged Age, Baptists, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Clive Field, Congregationalists, ethnicity, Free Churches, gender, marital status, Methodists, Nonconformity, occupation, Protestant Nonconformists, Quakers, Religious Society of Friends | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Historical studies

Religion and Morality in the 1950s and 1960s

Counting Catholics

Religious Census of Berkshire in 1851

Religious Equality

Turbulent Times

Long-Living Methodists

Authority and Governance in the Roman Catholic Church

When was Secularization?

The New Anti-Semitism

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