Counting Religion in Britain, September 2023

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

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, July 2023

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 94, July 2023 features seven 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 94 July 2023

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • State of, and prospects for, the United Reformed Church
  • Patterns of membership in the Religious Society of Friends, 2022
  • Scale of Jewish migration from the UK and Europe
  • Virtues of faith project: responses from UK faith communities

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • UK Armed Forces biannual diversity statistics, April 2023
  • Hate crime in Scotland, April 2022–March 2023

NEW DATASET

  • UK Data Service, SN 9066: Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2019

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P.S. For operational reasons, this month’s edition has been put together on 12 July. Any relevant news stories appearing later in the month will be carried forward and included in our August edition.

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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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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2022

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, September 2022

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, August 2022

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)

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Counting Religion in Britain, June 2022

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 81, June 2022 features seven 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 81 June 2022

OPINION POLLS

  • British Muslim attitudes: Savanta ComRes poll for Hyphen
  • Overestimating demographics: YouGov poll for Campaign for Common Sense
  • Religious correlates of attitudes to animal testing: Savanta ComRes poll for RSPCA
  • Disinclination to marry: are religious factors at play?

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Government diversity monitoring data: latest reports
  • Response rate to Scotland’s census, 2022 still below target

NEW DATASETS

  • Opening up the Roper Center’s historical archive of British Gallup Polls

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