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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2024

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Clive D. Field

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, May 2023

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 92, May 2023 features 16 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 92 May 2023

OPINION POLLS―CORONATION OF KING CHARLES III

Before the coronation: Savanta ComRes polls
Before the coronation: YouGov polls
Before the coronation: other surveys
After the coronation

OPINION POLLS―OTHER TOPICS

Ipsos Global Advisor multinational religion study
World Values Survey, Wave 7 (2017–22): update―new report on UK findings
The Archbishop of Canterbury and contemporary politics
Functions of the British monarchy: is preservation of Christian morality one of them?
Demographics of self-reported attendance at religious services in Great Britain
Anti-Semitism in Western and Eastern Europe: The ADL Global 100 Index, 2022

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Church Commissioners for England annual report, 2022
Church of Scotland membership and attendance statistics for 2022

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Marriages in England and Wales, 2020
Census, 2021, England and Wales: new reports and data

NEW DATASETS

European Social Survey Round 10 data release
UK Data Service, SN 9079: Community Life Survey, 2021–2022

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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2023

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 88, January 2023 features 35 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 88 January 2023

OPINION POLLS

After the census results: Christianity in Britain according to Opinium Research
YouGov’s aspects of Christmas poll―was there still room for Jesus Christ?
YouGov poll on self-reported observance of childhood Christmas traditions
Church buildings: Savanta ComRes poll for the National Churches Trust
Religious agencies and cost of living crisis: Savanta ComRes poll for Church of England
Christian mission: Savanta ComRes poll for Operation Mobilisation
Religion and worldviews: Savanta ComRes poll for Culham St Gabriel’s Trust
Same-sex marriage and the Church of England: YouGov poll of public attitudes
Attitudes to Jews and Muslims: Savanta ComRes poll for Voice4Change
Science and religion: more findings from the Theos/Faraday Institute research project
Changing beliefs in God across the generations: Ipsos MORI survey
YouGov poll on self-reported frequency of reading horoscopes
YouGov poll on prevalence of superstitious beliefs

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Christmas church services in 2022: Bible Society survey for Ecclesiastical
Church of England’s state of readiness to welcome the public at Christmas
Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2021
Church of England Carbon Emissions Report, 2021
United Reformed Church statistics in its 2023 Yearbook
Catholic Education Service’s annual census of Catholic schools and colleges
British Sikh Report, 2022
Hindus and Christians in the workforce: Pearn Kandola reports

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

UK armed forces biannual diversity statistics, October 2022
Diversity and inclusion of Scottish Government workforce, 2021: religion
Police-recorded hate crime in Scotland during 2020–21 and 2021–22
Religious census of England and Wales, 2021 (1): expert reactions to the topline data
Religious census of England and Wales, 2021 (2): age and sex breaks

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Religion and occupational structure in early nineteenth-century Wales
Places of worship in Great Britain and Ireland, c.1829–c.1929
Churchgoing in Cheltenham in 1882
Mass Observation, religion, and the Second World War
British Methodism’s engagement with sociology during the long 1960s
Recent changes in British Methodism as reflected in two surveys of presbyters
Coronavirus chronicles: wellbeing of Anglican clergy and laity during third lockdown
Microsimulation of ‘fuzzy fidelity’: cohort effect explanation of secularization
Spirituality in northern Europe: International Social Survey Program data

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Counting Religion in Britain, September 2022

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 84, September 2022 features thirteen 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 84 September 2022

OPINION POLLS

Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022): public attitudes to her funeral
Self-reported religious behaviour: Savanta ComRes poll for the Church of England (2)
Importance attached to religious and other freedoms and rights
Inaugural Global Faith and Media Study

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Articles in the October 2022 edition of FutureFirst
Statistics of the Scottish Episcopal Church as at 31 December 2021
180 years of Jewish population change in the UK
Coronavirus chronicles: the UK Jewish experience of Covid-19

ACADEMIC STUDIES

The future of religion in Britain – according to Linda Woodhead
Sex and religiosity in Great Britain in the early 2010s
Coronavirus chronicles: lay churchgoers’ attitudes towards online Holy Communion

NEW DATASETS

UK Data Service, SN 9005: British Social Attitudes Survey, 2020
UK Data Service, SN 9006: Annual Population Survey, Three-Year Pooled Dataset, January 2019-December 2021

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2021

Posted on December 2, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 74, November 2021 features 19 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 74 November 2021

OPINION POLLS

Latest updates to YouGov tracker polls on religious issues
Popularity of national and religious events: YouGov Ratings data for quarter 3, 2021
YouGov@Cambridge Globalism Project, 2021: conspiracy theories
Knowledge and awareness of the Holocaust: multinational survey including the UK
Savanta ComRes polling for the Centre for Enterprise, Markets, and Ethics
Other Savanta ComRes polling: hospitality, marriage, Christmas, religious prejudice

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Perceiving the Church of England: an insider’s reading of outsider views
Church of England’s energy footprint: annual report for 2020
Evangelical Alliance survey of Christians and climate change
Coronavirus chronicles: children’s ministry and the pandemic
Mapping England’s spiritual needs: estimates by Peter Brierley
Coronavirus chronicles: Co-operative Funeralcare’s 2021 music charts
Coronavirus chronicles: update on Jewish mortality
Representations of Muslims and Islam in the British media

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Crimes in churches, 2020/21: Freedom of Information data

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Round-up of recent publications: four articles, a thesis, and a report

NEW DATASETS

UK Data Service, SN 8867: Community Life Survey, 2020-2021
UK Data Service, SN 8870: National Survey for Wales, 2020–2021

PEOPLE NEWS

Professor Linda Woodhead MBE, now at King’s College London

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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2021

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 68, May 2021 features 14 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 68 May 2021

OPINION POLLS

Afterlife beliefs: multinational poll from Maru Public Opinion
Religion and funerals: SunLife’s The Cost of Dying 2021 Report
First religion-related findings released from Fall 2020 Pew Global Attitudes Survey
Religion and conversion therapy: YouGov poll of public attitudes
Religion and charitable giving: YouGov Profiles data, 2020–21
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
Coronavirus chronicles: Israel as a potential holiday destination

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Peter Brierley’s overview of numbers and trends in the UK church scene in 2021
Coronavirus chronicles: Church of Scotland’s congregational statistics report for 2020

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Coronavirus chronicles: latest ONS data on vaccine hesitancy and religion
Coronavirus chronicles: updated ONS figures on deaths involving Covid-19 by religion
Scotland’s census, 2022: religion topic report
Teacher Roman Catholic approval management information for Scotland

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: three articles in the current edition of Rural Theology

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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2021

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 64, January 2021 features 16 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 64 January 2021

OPINION POLLS

Coronavirus chronicles: multinational Pew poll on Covid-19’s impact on religious faith
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
Campaign against Antisemitism/King’s College London Antisemitism Barometer, 2020
Coronavirus chronicles: public attitudes to early medical abortion at home in Scotland
The onward march of religious nones: trend data from Populus/Yonder

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Religion Media Centre briefing on faith in lockdown
Coronavirus chronicles: Peter Brierley’s estimate of churchgoing after the pandemic
Coronavirus chronicles: anticipating a religious revival?
Coronavirus chronicles: more findings from ‘Coronavirus, Church, and You’ survey
Coronavirus chronicles: United Christian Broadcasters survey of faith during lockdown
Youthscape’s latest research report on Christian youth ministry
Coronavirus chronicles: the Jewish experience of Covid-19
Coronavirus chronicles: survey of impact of Covid-19 restrictions on British mosques

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Profiling of voters by religion: a test case for the Information Commissioner’s Office

NEW DATASETS

UK Data Service, SN 8728: Scottish Election Study, 2016
British Election Study, 2019–23: 2019 Post-Election Random Probability Survey

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2020

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 63, December 2020 features 16 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 63 December 2020

OPINION POLLS

Coronavirus chronicles: multinational study of the pandemic’s impact on religious faith
YouGov study on Christianity in Britain: a mid-pandemic snapshot
Festive traditions: planned attendance at a Christmas religious service in 2020
Coronavirus chronicles: Bible sustains churchgoers in the UK and Republic of Ireland
Coronavirus chronicles: attitudes of religious communities to vaccines
Pew Research Center’s International Science Survey, 2019–20
Ipsos Global Advisor predictions for 2021: ghosts and aliens
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Fourth edition published of Peter Brierley’s triennial UK Church Statistics
Statistical profile of British evangelicalism in the early 2010s
Coronavirus chronicles: attendance at Mass by Roman Catholics during the pandemic
Coronavirus chronicles: more evidence of disproportionate UK Jewish mortality
Coronavirus chronicles: study of the impact of Covid-19 on Jewish wealth and health

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

UK government diversity statistics, 2020

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: BRIC-19 research project on digital congregations
Some recent articles in academic journals

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2019

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 50, November 2019 features 23 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 50 November 2019

OPINION POLLS

Attitudes to Christianity, faith, and Bible: Lumino website launched by Bible Society
Attitudes to right and wrong: Savanta ComRes poll on morality for the BBC
ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism, 2019 update
Antisemitism Barometer, 2019 from the Campaign against Antisemitism
Muslim women and removal of the face veil
Trust in clergy and other professions: Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, 2019

OPINION POLLS–2019 GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN

December 2019 general election: religion and voting intention
December 2019 general election: anti-Semitism and Islamophobia [9 polls]

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Does the 2030 Future Have a Church? New e-book from Peter Brierley
Church of England cathedral statistics, 2018
Statistics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
British Muslims and the December 2019 general election

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Crimes at churches and religious buildings, 2017–19: police data under FOI requests
Diversity reporting by Government departments and agencies

ACADEMIC STUDY

Periodizing secularization in modern British history

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2018

Posted on December 2, 2018 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 38, November 2018 features 20 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 38 November 2018

OPINION POLLS

Trust in clergy and priests
Trust in religious leaders and other matters
Clergy as lawmakers
Child sexual abuse
Religion and sex
Church social action
Christmas traditions
Religion in Europe
Anti-Semitism

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Christians making a difference
Church of England social action
Church of England statistics for mission
Church of England digital report
Church of England gender pay gap
Distance to church
Jewish charity

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

National barometer of prejudice

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Anglican church growth
Muslims and education

PEOPLE NEWS

Ceri Peach (1939-2018)

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