Category Archives: News from religious organisations

Concerns for Christians

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The indefatigable Peter Brierley of Brierley Consultancy has just brought out, under his ADBC Publishers imprint, a 24-page synthesis of statistics relating to 21 issues which are likely to be of concern to Christians. Entitled 21 Concerns for 21st Century … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion in the Press | Tagged Brierley Consultancy, Church of England, FutureFirst, Peter Brierley, university students | 2 Comments

Domestic Abuse and British Jews

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Clive D. Field

We reported four months ago (http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=718) that Jewish Women’s Aid (JWA), the UK national charity for Jewish women and their children affected by domestic violence, was intending to carry out an online survey into the incidence and perceptions of domestic … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Cora Peterson, domestic abuse, Jewish Women's Aid, Jews, rabbis, Sarah Abramson, violence, women | Leave a comment

Census Question Under Fire

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Clive D. Field

There are just six days to go before UK residents have to complete the household and individual questionnaire for the decennial population census. But humanists are still simultaneously maintaining their attack on the voluntary question on religion while paradoxically encouraging … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, News from religious organisations, Official data, Survey news | Tagged British Humanist Association, Census, church attendance, Humanist Society of Scotland, humanists, Jesus Christ, Office for National Statistics, Religious Affiliation, Scotland, self-assessed religiosity, YouGov | 1 Comment

Receptions into Roman Catholicism

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Adult receptions into the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales will be significantly up on 2010, to judge by attendances at last weekend’s Rite of Election and tabulated in a press release from the Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference posted … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations | Tagged converts, Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, Rite of Election, Roman Catholic Church | Leave a comment

Census Snippets

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Combined household and individual questionnaires for the 2011 population census have been dropping on doormats all week in preparation for the official enumeration date of Sunday, 27 March. They can be completed on paper or online. This will be the … Continue reading →

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Papal Visit – Final Reckoning

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Clive D. Field

A significant amount of controversy surrounded the run-up to the state and pastoral visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Scotland and England on 16-19 September 2010, although, in retrospect, the visit was deemed by many to have been a success. … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion in public debate, Research note | Tagged finance, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, National Secular Society, papal visit, police, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church | Leave a comment

Theos Civil Unrest Survey

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Britain may be poised for a period of protest and civil unrest, according to a new survey by ComRes for Theos, the public theology think-tank, released on 3 March. Fieldwork was conducted online on 23-25 February 2011, among 2,003 adults … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Belief in God, British Social Attitudes Surveys, civil unrest, ComRes, direct action, higher power, Religious Affiliation, Religious Liberty, Theos | Leave a comment

Costing the Heavens

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The National Secular Society (NSS) claimed on Monday that its study of expenditure on hospital chaplaincy by NHS provider trusts in England had demonstrated that the service yields no clinical benefit. The NSS press release and accompanying 12-page report, written … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Survey news, visualisation | Tagged Freedom of Information, hospital chaplaincy, Keith Porteous Wood, National Health Service, National Secular Society, NHS, Robert Christian | 8 Comments

National Jewish Student Survey

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The National Jewish Student Survey, a large-scale enquiry into Jewish identity, was launched on Tuesday last week. It has been commissioned by UJS Hillel, a support organization for Jewish students in the UK since 1953, with a view to informing … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged higher education, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos-MORI, Jewish identity, Jewish students, UJS Hillel | 1 Comment

UK Religious Trends to 2020

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Some fascinating (but necessarily speculative) insights into ten key current religious, demographic and other changes in the UK and their potential impact upon the Churches are contained in a new publication by Peter Brierley, head of Brierley Consultancy. Entitled Major … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, News from religious organisations | Tagged Brierley Consultancy, Christian Research, Peter Brierley, religious trends | Leave a comment

Dear Paul Thank you very much indeed for your kind words. I shall continue to pursue my own personal research…

Thank you for all your hard work on this important service which will be greatly missed, but all the best…

Thank you for your diligence in unearthing broken links on the site. Regarding religious profession of prisoners, there were surveys…

1) FYI. There is an incorrect link to a spreadsheet on the page here: https://www.brin.ac.uk/figures/belief-in-britain-1939-2009/conventional-belief/belief-in-god-divinity-of-christ-and-the-resurrection/. The spreadsheet is for "Belief…

Dear Colin I am sorry that you have experienced difficulties in getting data from the site. Please go to www.brin.ac.uk/figures/churches-and-churchgoers/…

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