Category Archives: Measuring religion

British Cohort Study + Fostering

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Our main story in today’s round-up of religious statistical news features initial findings from the current wave of one of the few genuinely longitudinal studies covering religion in this country, which further illustrates some of the methodological challenges involved in framing … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged afterlife, Alice Sullivan, BCS70, British Cohort Study, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, church attendance, David Voas, Economic and Social Research Council, foster children, foster parents, fostering, God, Institute of Education, inter-religious fostering, life after death, Matt Brown, Methodology, question-wording, Religious Affiliation, religious upbringing, Rotherham, TNS-BMRB, YouGov | 1 Comment

Labour Force Survey

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Professing Christians in this country are declining by one and a half percentage points annually and, on present trends, ‘the number of people with no religion will overtake the number of Christians in Great Britain in twenty years’. This prediction … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Official data, Survey news | Tagged Christians, House of Commons Library, Labour Force Survey, migration, no religion, Oliver Hawkins, Religious Affiliation | 1 Comment

Islamophobia in the West

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Islamophobia in the West: Measuring and Explaining Individual Attitudes, edited by Marc Helbling (of the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin) was published by Routledge on 16 February 2012 (ISBN 978-0-415-59444-8, hardback, £80). The book comprises 13 essays exploring the views … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Measuring religion, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate | Tagged attitude scales, Citizenship Survey, Clive Field, Erik Bleich, Islam, Islamophobia, Marc Helbling, Marco Cinnirella, Muslims, Rahsaan Maxwell, social psychology, students | Leave a comment

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

Restrictions on Religion

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The UK’s reputation as a land of religious liberty and toleration seems set to take a bit of a knock following the publication on 9 August 2011 of Rising Restrictions on Religion by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate | Tagged Anti-Semitism, Brian Grim, government, Islamophobia, Pew Research Center Forum on Religion and Public Life, restrictions on religion, social hostilities | Leave a comment

Falling Interest in Catholicism Online

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Interest in Roman Catholicism appears to be falling worldwide according to a new analysis of Google searches published on 3 June on the Nineteen Sixty-Four research blog of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Religion Online, visualisation | Tagged CARA, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University, Google, internet, John Paul II, Nineteen Sixty-Four, Roman Catholicism | Leave a comment

Immigrant Religiosity

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Clive D. Field

First-generation immigrants to the UK are three times as likely as natives to claim to attend religious services at least weekly and to pray in private daily. They are also more religious than immigrants to most other European countries on … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, Survey news | Tagged European Social Survey, Frank van Tubergen, immigrants, Jorunn Sindradottir, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, prayer, self-assessed religiosity, Utrecht University | 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

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

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