Counting Religion in Britain, April 2025

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 115, April 2025 features ten short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text (with URLs for sources, where available) can be downloaded from the following link No 115 April 2025

OPINION POLLS

  • Papal business: remembering Franciscus
  • Christianity, Church, and Bible enjoying ‘quiet revival’, according to Bible Society
  • Celebrating Easter in the UK in 2025: More in Common and YouGov polls
  • Claimed volunteering for religious and faith groups during the past year
  • UK Muslim perceptions and experiences of Islamophobia: Survation poll
  • Muslim World League poll conducted in Britain – has anybody seen it?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Fasting among regular churchgoers: Green Christian survey
  • UK undergraduates and the Bible
  • British Muslims in Numbers: latest update from the Muslim Council of Britain

ACADEMIC STUDY

  • Churchgoing in Edwardian Wales and Scotland

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2024

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 109, October 2024 features fourteen short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 109 October 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Reform of the House of Lords: should Church of England bishops keep their seats?
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: sympathies with Israel and Palestinians
  • Observance of, and attitudes to, Halloween in Britain

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Economic value of church provided health and wellbeing activities
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: British Jewish views
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: JPR analysis of anti-Semitism post-7 October
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents
  • Core Jewish population of Great Britain

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Religious and other hate crimes, 2023–24

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • English and Welsh Catholic attitudes to child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
  • Political, social, economic, and religious perspectives of ethnic minority Britons
  • Longitudinal study of churchgoing in Edinburgh and Leith
  • Religion in English northern industrial towns during the 1950s
  • Paganism in numbers

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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2024

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 107, August 2024 features twelve short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 107 August 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Pew Research Center polling updates on religion
  • Church closure poll: Whitestone Insight for National Churches Trust
  • UK general election, 2024: how faith communities actually voted
  • Religion as a source of the current conflict in the Middle East: new YouGov poll
  • Public concerns about religious extremism in the UK: Ipsos and YouGov polling
  • Is the National Health Service treated like a ‘national religion’ in Britain?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES 

  • Public examinations in Religious Studies
  • UK general election, 2024: final briefing from Theos, on religion and climate change
  • JPR report on UK Jewish observance of Shabbat
  • Community Security Trust report on anti-Semitic incidents, January–June 2024
  • Foreign-born Jews resident in the UK: Pew Research Center stands corrected

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Some picks from recent Taylor and Francis academic journals

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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2024

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 106, July 2024 features ten short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 106 July 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: where do British public sympathies lie?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Charitable giving by UK Christians: Stewardship’s Generosity Report, 2024
  • Male and female ministry in the Church of England
  • Scottish Episcopal Church annual report and accounts, 2023
  • Methodist Church statistics for mission, October 2023: preliminary data
  • Presbyterian Church of Wales statistics
  • UK general election, 2024: a clue to the religion of parliamentarians?

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • UK armed forces biannual diversity statistics, April 2024

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Revisiting English urban religion in the 1950s: three northern case studies
  • Church of England ministry in south-west England

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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2024

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 104, May 2024 features fifteen short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 104 May 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Attitudes to faith in public life
  • Attitudes to Sunday trading hours in England and Wales
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: where do British public sympathies lie?
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: university student opinion

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Will religion count in the UK and other national elections in 2024?
  • UK evangelical Christians and politics
  • Church of England attendance statistics, 2023: preliminary view
  • Church of Scotland congregational statistics, 2023
  • Collective worship in state schools: teacher attitudes and experiences
  • Further release from the UK National Jewish Identity Survey
  • National Jewish Student Survey, 2024

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Scotland’s census, 2022: religious affiliation data
  • Hate crimes recorded by the police in Scotland, 2022–23

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: giving up on online or offline services during lockdown

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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2024

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 102, March 2024 features fourteen short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 102 March 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Attitudes to assisted dying: Opinium Research poll for Dignity in Dying
  • Religion and life satisfaction: Ipsos global happiness survey, 2024
  • HarrisX/Faith and Media Initiative global faith and entertainment study
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: where do British public sympathies lie?
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: More in Common polling
  • Social contribution of British Muslims: Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life report

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Church of England parish finance statistics, 2022
  • Lapsed Catholics: Diocese of Brentford case study, 2023
  • Catholic Education Service digest of 2023 census data for Catholic schools and colleges
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: claimed UK and international media bias
  • Young people’s attitudes to religious and social groups: Anne Frank Trust’s impact

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Scottish Surveys Core Questions, 2022: religion question

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Two recent historical studies

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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2024

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 100, January 2024 features fourteen short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 100 January 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Religion as a source of national identity: new Pew Global Attitudes Survey release
  • Michaela Community School, Brent and its alleged ban on prayer rituals
  • Updates to YouGov trackers on religion-related themes
  • Changing shape of funerals: SunLife Cost of Dying Report, 2024
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: where do British public sympathies lie?
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • National Churches Trust manifesto
  • Coronavirus chronicles: impact of Covid-19 on Church of England attendance
  • United Reformed Church statistics
  • Religious beliefs in Wolverhampton: Through Faith Missions street survey, 2023
  • British Sikh Report, 2023
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: anti-Semitism in the workplace

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Three recent academic papers

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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2023

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 95, August 2023 features fourteen articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 95 August 2023

OPINION POLLS

  • Is the UK a Christian country? Perceptions of the general public
  • YouGov trackers: influence of religion, belief in god(s), Sunday trading laws
  • Utility of religious education in schools
  • Perceptions of the United States as more religious than other wealthy nations

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • The Times survey of Church of England priests
  • Three recent reports from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research
  • Anti-Semitic incidents in the UK, January–June 2023
  • British Muslims’ charitable giving

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Extremism in Scotland: new evidence of public attitudes
  • Religion of civil servants
  • Census 2021, England and Wales: overcrowding and under-occupancy by religion
  • Public examination results in Religious Studies, June 2023: A Levels and GCSEs

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Recent articles by Leslie Francis and his research network

NEW DATASET

  • European Social Survey: release of CRONOS-2 dataset

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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2023

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 91, April 2023 features 10 articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 91 April 2023

 OPINION POLLS

  • Coronation blues: can King Charles III still enthuse his people about his coronation?
  • Mourning Queen Elizabeth II: Bible Society report derived from YouGov polling
  • Necessity to believe in God to be moral and have good values? Most don’t think so

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England attendance in October 2022
  • Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England cathedral statistics, 2022
  • Death and dying in the UK: new report from Theos and Susanna Wesley Foundation

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Census, 2021, England and Wales: new reports and data
  • Government engagement with faith: publication of The Bloom Review

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Three recent open access publications

NEW DATASET

  • UK Data Service, SN 9072: British Social Attitudes Survey, 2021

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