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, October 2022

Posted on October 15, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 85, October 2022 features eight 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 85 October 2022

OPINION POLL

  • Importance of teaching Religious Studies at secondary school

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Hate crimes in England and Wales, 2021–22
  • Race Disparity Unit’s consultation on standards for ethnicity data

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Catholics in Contemporary Britain: new sociological data and insights
  • Baby boomers as architects of religious change
  • The statistical movement in Victorian Britain
  • Coronavirus chronicles: psychological wellbeing of Church of England clergy and laity

NEW DATASET

  • UK Data Service, SN 9011: National Survey for Wales, 2021-2022

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PS Operational considerations have necessitated the early filing of the October edition of Counting Religion in Britain. Any new sources from the second half of the month will feature in a subsequent edition.

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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, 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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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2022

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 80, May 2022 features 22 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 80 May 2022

OPINION POLLS

  • Attitudes to continued presence of Church of England bishops in the House of Lords
  • Attitudes to existing Sunday trading hours in England and Wales
  • Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in UK society
  • Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in UK professional football
  • Science and religion: more results from YouGov/Theos/Faraday Institute polling

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Mapping Christian youth ministry in south-west England
  • Annual report of Church Commissioners for 2021
  • Church of Scotland congregational statistics for 31 December 2021
  • Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) membership statistics for 31 December 2021
  • Growth of strictly Orthodox Jewry: European Jewish Demography Unit estimates
  • Performance measures of religious education in England and Wales

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Marriages in England and Wales, 2019
  • Social capital in the UK, 2020–21
  • Response rate to Scotland’s census, 2022 still below target
  • Results of 2021 Research Excellence Framework published

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Calculating decline and extinction potentials for UK Churches
  • Religion and the supernatural during the 1990s: evidence from Mass Observation
  • Some psychological insights into churchgoing in the UK
  • Coronavirus chronicles: gendered responses to Covid-19 in the Church of England
  • Coronavirus chronicles: rural Anglican lay attitudes to online worship during Covid-19
  • Coronavirus chronicles: God, prayer, personal wellbeing, and the pandemic
  • Ethos of Anglican primary schools in Wales

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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2022

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 79, April 2022 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 79 April 2022

OPINION POLLS

  • Easter as a ‘proper’ special occasion: international YouGov poll
  • Planned attendance at religious services over the Easter weekend
  • Religious or spiritual wellbeing as source of greatest happiness: Ipsos global poll
  • Science and religion: YouGov poll for Theos and Faraday Institute
  • Talking Jesus: HOPE Together’s 2022 research
  • Importance of teaching Religious Studies at secondary school: YouGov tracker data

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Future of UK church buildings: results of National Churches Trust consultation
  • Coronavirus chronicles: some Anglican experiences of distanced church
  • Coronavirus chronicles: Methodist responses to ‘Covid-19 and Church-21 Survey’
  • Coronavirus chronicles: Baptist Union statistics, 2021
  • Two recent blogs from Muslim Census

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Scotland’s census of population, 2022

ACADEMIC STUDY

  • Levels of religious commitment among British Catholics

NEW DATASET

  • UK Data Service, SN 8928: Annual Population Survey, January-December 2021

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Counting Religion in Britain, February 2022

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 77, February 2022 features 13 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 77 February 2022

OPINION POLLS

  • Changing public views on the possible timeline and causation for human extinction
  • Fashion and faith: Savanta ComRes poll for Tearfund

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Churches and mental health: Christian Research Resonate panel survey
  • Safeguarding LGBT+ Christians survey, 2021
  • Jewish identities of UK and European Jewry
  • Anti-Semitic incidents in the UK exhibit steep rise during 2021
  • Coronavirus chronicles: Jewish mortality exceeds 1,000

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Coronavirus chronicles: odds of testing positive for Covid-19 vary by religious group
  • Census of population, Scotland, 2022
  • Scottish Household Survey: analysis of religion in relation to culture in 2020
  • Religious affiliation of the legal profession in 2021

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Religion and science: still a gap to close among the clergy
  • Coronavirus chronicles: doubts about the long-term viability of online worship

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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2022

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 76, January 2022 features 10 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 76 January 2022

OPINION POLLS

  • Exploring spirituality and alternative beliefs with YouGov
  • Islamophobia in contemporary Britain: University of Birmingham and YouGov study
  • Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
  • Perceived threat posed by Islamic State in Britain
  • Attitudes to Sunday trading legislation in England and Wales: YouGov tracker

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England Living Ministry panel survey wave 3 report
  • Coronavirus chronicles: update on Jewish mortality

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Coronavirus chronicles: vaccination rates by religion to 31 December 2021

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Recent articles in academic journals: ‘Coronavirus, Church, and You’ (four articles)
  • Three other recent academic outputs

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2021

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 75, December 2021 features 17 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 75 December 2021

OPINION POLLS

  • Depicting the ethnicity of Jesus Christ: what is acceptable?
  • Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, 2021: trust in clergy and priests to tell the truth slightly up
  • Trust in the Church/organized religion and other institutions, as measured by YouGov
  • Non-stun slaughter of animals for religious reasons: the debate continues
  • Extra-terrestrials, Ipsos MORI, and the public

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: Evangelical Alliance’s latest survey on Changing Church
  • Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2020
  • Coronavirus chronicles: Christmas special events in churches, 2020 and 2021
  • Jewish children in Jewish schools: Institute for Jewish Policy Research’s latest report
  • Estimating the level of anti-Semitism on Twitter in the UK
  • Jewish perceptions of Labour Party membership: still more to do?
  • Recent reports from the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Population estimates by religion, England and Wales, 2019
  • Coronavirus chronicles: vaccination rates among the over-50s by religion

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Counting religion in Britain, 1970–2020: new analysis and compendium of data tables
  • Other academic outputs: two collections of essays and three journal articles

PEOPLE NEWS

  • Gordon Heald (1941–2021)

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