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, July 2022

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, 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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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2022

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 78, March 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 78 March 2022

OPINION POLLS

  • Coronavirus chronicles: Covid-19 and British Jewish and Muslim communities
  • Anglican attitudes towards same-sex marriage: YouGov poll for Ozanne Foundation
  • Antisemitism Barometer, 2021: surveys of the British public and Jews
  • Removal of British citizenship: the case of Shamima Begum, the Islamic State bride

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • United Reformed Church statistical returns: not such a happy birthday
  • Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England cathedral statistics, 2020

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Updates on religious censuses: England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Four recent journal articles

NEW DATASETS

  • UK Data Service, SN 855354: Catholics in Britain Survey, 2019
  • Pew Research Center: Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2021

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Counting Religion in Britain, February 2022

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

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

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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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2021

 

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, October 2021

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 73, October 2021 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 73 October 2021

OPINION POLLS

  • UnHerd’s response to Savanta ComRes poll on frequency of churchgoing and prayer
  • YouGov Death Study: some afterlife beliefs
  • Trustworthiness of clergy or priests: Ipsos MORI global study of professional rankings
  • Anti-Semitism in Europe: Ipsos SA survey for the Action and Protection League
  • Coronavirus chronicles: a comeback for Halloween?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2020
  • Results of elections to the Church of England General Synod, 2021
  • Economic and social value of church buildings in the UK
  • UK Jews and climate change: Institute for Jewish Policy Research panel survey
  • Muslim Census survey about Muslim university student finance

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Religious hate crimes recorded by police forces in England and Wales, 2020/21
  • Offender management statistics as at 30 September 2021

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Six recent articles in academic journals

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