Category Archives: Survey news

Quantiphobia and Other News

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Quantiphobia Quantiphobia – the fear or suspicion of statistics – surfaces among religious leaders from time to time, and, of course, has some biblical foundation in David’s alleged sin in numbering the Israelites (2 Sam. 24:1-25, 1 Chron. 21:1-30). … Continue reading →

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Understanding Society, Wave 4

Posted on December 20, 2014 by David Voas

Wave 4 of ‘Understanding Society’, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, is now available to registered users of the UK Data Service. Every year the study collects data on the social and economic characteristics of people living in 40,000 households across … Continue reading →

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Christmas Observance and Other News

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Christmas observance Prospect magazine has entered into the festive spirit by commissioning YouGov to run a few questions about how Britons observe Christmas, 1,927 adults being quizzed online on 13-14 November 2014. Nothing unusual about that, you might think … Continue reading →

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Advent Pot-Pourri

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Correlates of belief The socio-structural and religious correlates of over-time belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, and sin are explored in a new article by Ben Clements published in the advance access edition of Journal of Beliefs … Continue reading →

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Jesus Test and Other News

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Clive D. Field

The Jesus test Jesus Christ is not often dragged into the contemporary British political arena, but, when He is, people tend to ask what He would do or think about a current situation (or, in a few cases, even … Continue reading →

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Sacred Texts and Other News

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Sacred texts The potential contribution of religious and sacred texts to the school curriculum is explored in new research published by the Bible Society on 20 November 2014. Commissioned from YouGov, it involved online interviews with samples of (a) … Continue reading →

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Public attitudes towards women bishops

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Ben Clements

Given important recent developments in the long-running debate on the issue of women bishops in the Church of England, this post provides a brief review of topline and group attitudes using recent data from opinion polls. Several polls on the … Continue reading →

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Bible Versus Darwin and Other News

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Bible versus Darwin Given a list of 30 books, and invited to select three which they considered to be most valuable to humanity (as opposed to having read or enjoyed), 37% of the 2,044 adult Britons recently questioned by … Continue reading →

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Huffington Post and Other Polls

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Huffington Post religion poll As part of its new ‘Beyond Belief’ series, The Huffington Post UK commissioned Survation to carry out a short online survey about religion among 2,004 Britons on 31 October and 1 November 2014. Results were … Continue reading →

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Halloween and Other News

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Halloween Halloween is almost upon us again! It is next Friday (31 October 2014). Strictly speaking, it is All Hallows’ Eve in the Christian calendar, but since the Millennium it has been transformed in the UK into a seasonal … Continue reading →

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Quantiphobia and Other News

Understanding Society, Wave 4

Public attitudes towards women bishops

Bible Versus Darwin and Other News

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