Category Archives: Official data

Caring for Places of Worship

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Churchgoing may be declining, but, according to an omnibus survey conducted for the Church of England, 85% of the adult population visited places of worship for some reason in 2009, whether for an event, personal interest or to attend a … Continue reading →

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Science and Religion in the European Union

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The interactions of science with religion have featured in a number of opinion polls during the past year or so, largely in connection with the debate on the origins of the universe, and how it should be taught in schools, … Continue reading →

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‘Onward Pagan Soldiers’ (Daily Mail)

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Clive D. Field

On 5 April 2010, we reported on ‘Religion in the Armed Forces’, based on an annual census of religious profession carried out by the Defence Analytical Services and Advice section of the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The religious groupings used … Continue reading →

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Muslims in Prison

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Clive D. Field

In December 2008 there were 9,975 Muslim prisoners in England and Wales, equivalent to 12% of the prison population. This represented a considerable increase on the 5% in 1994 and 8% in 2004 and was more than four times the … Continue reading →

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Transforming Religious Education

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills) has today published a new report on the state of religious education (RE) in 183 maintained primary and secondary schools across 70 local authorities in England. These schools were inspected … Continue reading →

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Economic Inequality and Religion

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The outgoing Labour Government’s often controversial Equality Bill received royal assent on 8 April and became the Equality Act 2010. In the economic sphere the legislation, and the Parliamentary debates on it, were informed by the work of the independent … Continue reading →

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Taking Part in England

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

The Taking Part in England survey is a large survey of cultural and leisure participation in England, sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The first was fielded in July 2005 and it has been run annually since then. The current collection agency is BMRB Social Research, which operates the survey via face-to-face interview. Continue reading →

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Religion in the Armed Forces

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The UK Ministry of Defence might seem an improbable source of religious statistics. In fact, it (and its predecessor departments) has long been enquiring into the religious affiliation of the armed forces, from the 1860s for the Army, the 1930s … Continue reading →

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Muslim Voices

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The Department for Communities and Local Government has recently published two reports which illuminate, numerically, the attitudes of British Muslims. The first is Helen Connolly, Attitudes, Values and Perceptions: Muslims and the General Population in 2007-08. This utilizes evidence from the … Continue reading →

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