Category Archives: Survey news

Britain as a Christian Country

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The recent census question on religion sparked some debate about the persistence of cultural Christianity. That phenomenon can be defined both at the level of the individual and in terms of national character – whether Britain remains a ‘Christian country’. … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged atheism, Christian Concern, Christian country, ComRes, equality | Leave a comment

Burka Britain

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Two-thirds of Britons would like to see the burka banned in this country, notwithstanding the fact that the Home Secretary has indicated that the Government has no intention of moving in the same direction as France, where a law prohibiting … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Burka, Islamophobia, legislation, Muslims, religious dress, YouGov | 2 Comments

British Muslims and the Police

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Taken as a whole, Muslims in England and Wales express higher levels of trust and confidence in the police than do the general population, notwithstanding the fact that they report crime and disorder impacts more negatively upon them than society … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Association of Chief Police Officers, British Crime Survey, Cardiff University, Colin Roberts, community cohesion, crime, Helen Innes, Martin Innes, Muslims, police, policing, PREVENT, Universities' Police Science Institute | 1 Comment

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

Self-Supporting Ministry

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Clive D. Field

In 2009 3,100 or 27% of all the Church of England’s diocesan licensed ministers were in self-supporting ministry (SSM), sometimes described as non-stipendiary ministry. Hitherto, comparatively little has been known about these SSMs and how they are utilized by the … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Church of England, Church Times, clergy, non-stipendiary ministry, self-supporting ministry, Teresa Morgan | Leave a comment

Libya and Radical Islam

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Among the public’s many concerns about the current crisis in Libya is a fear that it may result in the country falling under the influence of radical Islam. That is one of the findings from a YouGov poll conducted online … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged al-Qaeda, Islam, Libya, Middle East, radicalism, Sunday Times, YouGov | Leave a comment

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

Feminism and Religion

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Women have historically scored more highly than men on most indicators of religious belief and practice, but there have been signs in recent years that the situation may be changing, as females succumb to secularization, and apparently nowhere is this … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged agnostics, atheists, British Social Attitudes Survey, Catherine Redfern, feminism, Kendal, Kristin Aune, secularization, spirituality, third-wave feminism, women | Leave a comment

English Schools and Community Cohesion

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The Education and Inspections Act 2006 placed a new duty on the governing bodies of maintained schools in England to promote community cohesion. In order to see how much progress schools had been making, the previous Labour administration commissioned Ipsos-MORI … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged Chris Phillips, community cohesion, Daniel Tse, Department for Education, Education and Inspections Act, Faith schools, Fiona Johnson, Ipsos-MORI, PREVENT, religious education, schools, violent extremism | Leave a comment

Monarchical Religion

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The Church of England, the product of the sixteenth-century Reformation, remains the state church in England, notwithstanding successive attempts to disestablish it during the past two centuries. These campaigns were initially led by militant Dissenters promulgating the gospel of ‘voluntaryism’, … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged Act of Settlement, Church of England, Clive Field, establishment, monarchy, Peter Kellner, Prince Charles, Prospect, Roman Catholicism, Supreme Governor, YouGov | 2 Comments

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