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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2023

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 98, November 2023 features seventeen 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 98 November 2023

OPINION POLLS

Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: British attitudes towards Israel at war
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: Savanta poll of Muslim voting intentions
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: Savanta poll of Labour councillors
Emotional responses to death and dying in the UK: latest Theos report
Mental health, job satisfaction, and the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life
Practising Christians’ attitudes to sharing their faith: Savanta poll
Effectiveness of Churches in helping during the cost of living crisis: YouGov poll
‘Blasphemy’ in UK schools: the teachers’ perspective

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Church attendance in the Church of England―Glimmers of hope? Perhaps not
Survey of financial pressures among Church of England ordinands in training
Religion at work: Pearn Kandola Research report
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: anti-Semitic incidents
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: poll of UK Jews on post-7 October experiences

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Census, 2021, England and Wales: new article and data on sexual orientation
Police-recorded hate crimes in England and Wales, 2022–23: revised data
Equality and Human Rights Monitor, 2023

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2023

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 97, October 2023 features eleven 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 97 October 2023

OPINION POLLS

Global poll: faith and wellbeing―Gallup/Radiant Foundation research
Global poll: trustworthiness of clergy/priests and other professions
Israel-Hamas conflict: perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Unite investigation into the wellbeing of faith workers
Chinese Christianity in Britain: Bible Society report
Israel-Hamas conflict: Institute for Jewish Policy Research briefings
Israel-Hamas conflict: sudden and steep rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the UK
Israel-Hamas conflict: Islamophobic incidents in the UK
Israel-Hamas conflict: impact on Muslim voting intentions in the UK

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Police-recorded hate crimes in England and Wales, 2022–23

NEW DATASET

Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2022

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Counting Religion in Britain, September 2023

Posted on October 1, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 96, September 2023 features ten 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 96 September 2023

OPINION POLLS

Majority of people of faith supportive of assisted dying according to two YouGov polls
Importance of teaching Religious Studies at secondary school
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

The Times survey of Church of England priests (continuation)
Evaluation of the Transforming Wigan project in the Church of England
Methodist Church Statistics for Mission, 2022
Church of Scotland enhances capacity for research and analysis
Pastoral statistics of the Catholic Church in Scotland
Latest publications from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Census, 2021, England and Wales: new reports and data

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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2023

Posted on September 3, 2023 by Clive D. Field

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, March 2023

Posted on April 2, 2023 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 90, March 2023 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 90 March 2023

OPINION POLLS

Religious beliefs around the world: Gallup International Association poll
Political leaders and their religious beliefs: fall-out from the SNP leadership contest
Round-up of latest YouGov tracker polls
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
Attitudes of young Muslims in the UK and their non-Muslim peers

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England cathedral statistics, 2021
Muslim women in sport: Muslim Census poll for Muslimah Sports Association
UK Jewish attitudes to the 2021 conflict in Israel and Gaza

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Estimated suicide rates by religion in England and Wales, 2011–21
Census, 2021, England and Wales: religion by housing, health, employment, education

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Psychological type profiles of the UK’s non-Anglican ministries
Other recent open access articles in academic journals

NEW DATASETS

Religion and politics: two UK home nation election datasets, 2021
Release of World Values Survey wave 7 (2017–22) datasets

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2023

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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, December 2022

Posted on December 10, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 87, December 2022 is a special 14-page edition devoted to the first release of data from the religion question in the 2021 Census of Population in England and Wales.

This issue of BRIN’s monthly bulletin consists of tables, commentary, and a selection of media reporting of the results of the religious census. A copy of the full text can be downloaded from this link No 87 December 2022

Any other items of religious statistical news from December will be held over to the January 2023 edition of Counting Religion in Britain.

At the time of writing, the most significant new resource, apart from the census, is the Church of England’s Statistics for Mission, 2021, which can be found at: https://www.churchofengland.org/system/files/private%3A//2022-12///2021StatisticsForMission.pdf

The BRIN team wish all our users a peaceful and restful festive break. We look forward to ‘seeing’ you again in 2023.

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2022

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 86, November 2022 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 86 November 2022

OPINION POLLS

The UK’s first Hindu prime minister
Contact with and attitudes towards local churches: ComRes poll for Church of England
What makes someone a good member of society? Pew Global Attitudes Survey
The Open Generation: Barna Group survey of teens around the world
Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, 2022: trust in clergy and priests to tell the truth
Removal of British citizenship: Shamima Begum, the Islamic State bride (continued)

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: the place of families in church post-Covid-19
Praying online with the Church of England via podcast and app
Community use of church buildings in the Church of England Diocese of Ely
Methodists and their hymnbook(s): a new survey
Muslims and the cost of living crisis
Profiling the ‘nones’: latest Theos report

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religious census of England and Wales, 2021
Coronavirus chronicles: Scottish faith communities and the impact of Covid-19

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: more analyses by Village and Francis of their 2020–21 surveys
Meatless Fridays, Roman Catholics, and mitigating climate change

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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2022

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 83, August 2022 features fourteen 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 83 August 2022

OPINION POLLS

Self-reported religious behaviour: Savanta ComRes poll for the Church of England
Latest YouGov trackers on perceived influence of religion and beliefs about god(s)
Trustworthiness of clergy and priests: public perceptions in Britain and worldwide
Attitudes towards religious groups in contemporary England: HOPE Not Hate report

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Methods of estimating the Roman Catholic population of England and Wales
Anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom, January-June 2022
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and the use of the ‘Y word’

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Non-stun slaughter of farm animals: latest Food Standards Agency data
Public examination results in Religious Studies, June 2022: A Levels and GCSEs

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Liverpool Cathedral’s online music outreach in lockdown
Scottish Catholics not so distinctive from their English and Welsh counterparts
Separatist Presbyterianism in Scotland
The History of Methodist Insurance in Britain

NEW DATASETS

United Kingdom Data Service, SN 4562: Great Britain Historical Database, Census Data, Religion Statistics, 1851 (second edition) and SN 8945: Great Britain Historical Database, Census Data, Education Statistics, 1851 (first edition)

Counting Religion in Britain, July 2022

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 82, July 2022 features sixteen 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 82 July 2022

OPINION POLLS

Perceptions of prejudice against religious groups as a problem in contemporary society
Importance of a British prime minister being a Christian: Deltapoll for Mail on Sunday

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Easter church attendance before and after the pandemic
Peer evangelism among young people in the UK
Anti-Semitism in English secondary schools and colleges: Henry Jackson Society report
Merseyside Jewish community census, 2021: summary report
Attacks on mosques and Islamic institutions in the UK: Muslim Census survey

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Coronavirus chronicles: vaccination rates by religion as at 31 May 2022
Civil Service statistics, 2022: profile by religion or belief

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Covid-19’s impact on the body, mind, and soul of Anglicans
Analysing the ‘Muslim penalty’ in the British labour market
Relationship between religiosity and Parkinson’s disease in England and the USA
Effectiveness of school mindfulness programmes in minimizing mental health risks
Reviewing the statistics of the secularization history of Britain
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 32 (2022)
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Volume 13 (2022)

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