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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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, August 2021

Posted on August 15, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 71, August 2021 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 71 August 2021

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: Covid-19 and the Christian Church
  • Coronavirus chronicles: the Jewish experience of Covid-19

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Office for National Statistics consultation on 2021 census outputs
  • Religious marriages in England and Wales, 2018
  • Religious hate crimes in Scotland, 2020–21
  • Entries for Religious Studies in June 2021 school examinations in England and Wales

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Four recent articles in religion journals

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Counting Religion in Britain, June 2021

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 69, June 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 69 June 2021

OPINION POLLS

  • Religion questions in recent polling by Number Cruncher Politics for British Future
  • Coronavirus chronicles: vaccine hesitancy and religious groups – Ipsos MORI polling
  • YouGov poll of public attitudes to lobbying by faith leaders against assisted dying
  • Attitudes towards the recent conflict between Israel and Palestinians
  • Survation survey of political party identification and voting among British Muslims
  • Is it being political for football fans to sing songs about the Pope or ISIS?
  • Alternative beliefs: do aliens exist and have they visited the earth?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: Good Faith Partnership’s vision for Covid-19 recovery

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Coronavirus chronicles: vaccine hesitancy and religious groups – ONS data
  • Faith schools and their pupils in England, January 2021
  • Religious profession in the armed forces as at 1 April 2021

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Values as the new religion: Linda Woodhead’s Edward Cadbury Lectures, 2021
  • Coronavirus chronicles: University of York’s ‘Churches, Covid-19, and Communities’

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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, March 2021

Posted on April 2, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 66, March 2021 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 66 March 2021

OPINION POLLS

  • Humanists UK’s 2021 census campaign bolstered by new YouGov polling
  • Updates to YouGov trackers: religion’s influence, belief in God, and Sunday trading
  • Should Church of England bishops continue to sit in the House of Lords?
  • Coronavirus chronicles: experiences of bereavement and funerals in the age of Covid-19
  • Attitudes to international aid: Savanta ComRes poll for Islamic Relief
  • Talking about religion: opinion poll for Zopa
  • Religious division in Scottish society: Survation poll for Scotland in Union
  • Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
  • Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party: YouGov poll of Labour members
  • Threat posed by Islamic extremists: YouGov poll of general public

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: the Anglican experience of Covid-19
  • Coronavirus chronicles: the Baptist experience of Covid-19
  • Coronavirus chronicles: the Methodist experience of Covid-19
  • Coronavirus chronicles: the Jewish experience of Covid-19

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Coronavirus chronicles: vaccination rates by religion of people aged 70 and over
  • Census snippets: measuring religion in England and Wales in 2021
  • Characteristics of police recorded hate crime in Scotland

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Three recent articles in academic journals

NEW DATASETS

  • UK Data Service SN 8699: Contemporary Relevance of Thatcherite Values, 2019
  • UK Data Service SN 8789: Annual Population Survey, January-December 2020

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2020

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 62, November 2020 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 62 November 2020

OPINION POLLS

  • How we get along: Woolf Institute diversity study of England and Wales
  • Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, 2020: who trusts clergy and priests to tell the truth?
  • Religious correlates of adoption/fostering: Savanta ComRes poll for Home for Good
  • Importance attached to Religious Studies as a secondary school subject
  • Knowledge of the Holocaust and its importance in the school history curriculum
  • Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
  • Legacy of Islamic State: the public’s ongoing lack of sympathy for Shamima Begum
  • Coronavirus chronicles: Co-op calls for reopening of places of worship during lockdown
  • Coronavirus chronicles: door-to-door carol singing not so welcome this Christmas

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: Evangelical Alliance’s second survey of Changing Church
  • Church growth and social action in the Church of England
  • Church of England cathedral statistics, 2019
  • Coronavirus chronicles: UK Jewish mortality from Covid-19
  • Coronavirus chronicles: MCB report on British Muslims and Covid-19
  • Islamophobia and the Labour Party: report by the Labour Muslim Network

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Campaign to recognize Sikhs as an ethnic group in the 2021 census of population
  • Coronavirus chronicles: partnerships between faith groups and local authorities

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: fear, isolation, and compulsive buying among religious groups
  • Coronavirus chronicles: more findings from ‘Coronavirus, Church, and You’ survey
  • Coronavirus chronicles: Exeter report on Covid-19, Christian faith, and wellbeing
  • Secularization at the grass roots: a perspective from twentieth-century Slough
  • Round-up of recent academic journal articles

NEW DATASET

  • UK Data Service, SN 8718: National Survey for Wales, 2019–2020

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2020

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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2020

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 59, August 2020 features 21 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 59 August 2020

OPINION POLLS

  • Coronavirus chronicles: religion/spirituality under lockdown–YouGov polling
  • Coronavirus chronicles: religion/spirituality under lockdown–Savanta ComRes polling
  • Coronavirus chronicles: have religious divisions in the UK shifted in the pandemic?
  • Coronavirus chronicles: attending places of worship after lockdown
  • Sunday shopping hours: latest YouGov tracker
  • Belief in God or a spiritual greater power: latest YouGov tracker
  • Influence of religion on the world: latest YouGov tracker
  • Plight of persecuted Christians in Nigeria: time for the UK to take action?
  • Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
  • British Muslim anti-Semitism: Savanta ComRes poll for Henry Jackson Society
  • Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill: Savanta ComRes survey in Scotland

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: Zoom boom for churches, reports Ecclesiastical
  • Coronavirus chronicles: UK Jewish mortality statistics
  • Media reporting of Muslims and terrorism: new statistical insights

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Britain’s changing religious landscape: estimates from the Annual Population Survey
  • Coronavirus chronicles: postponement of 2021 census of population in Scotland
  • Solemnization of marriages in Scotland: humanist progress checked for the first time
  • Religious diversity of civil servants as at 31 March 2020
  • Religious diversity of armed forces personnel as at 1 April 2020
  • Entries for Religious Studies in June 2020 school examinations in England and Wales

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: impact of the pandemic on Christian welfare organizations

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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2020

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 58, July 2020 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 58 July 2020

OPINION POLLS

  • Spring 2019 Pew Global Attitudes Project: release of results for religion questions
  • Coronavirus chronicles: opening and attending places of worship after lockdown
  • Religious correlates of attitudes to gay conversion therapy
  • Religious correlates of attitudes towards climate change and racial inequality
  • Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
  • Was the government right to strip Shamima Begum of her British citizenship?
  • BAME attitudes to minority religions: focaldata study for Hope Not Hate

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: new research reports by the Allchurches Trust
  • Coronavirus chronicles: Covid-19 survey of Jews in the UK
  • Coronavirus chronicles: UK Jewish mortality statistics
  • Community Security Trust’s anti-Semitic incidents report, January-June 2020
  • Church of England clergy: initial research findings from the Sheldon Community

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Number of state-funded faith schools and their students in England, 2000–20
  • Campaign to recognize Sikhs as an ethnic group in the 2021 census of population

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Science and religion: conflict or coexistence?
  • Islam and Muslims on UK university campuses

NEW DATASET

  • UK Data Service, SN 8657: Annual Population Survey, Three-Year Pooled Dataset, January 2017-December 2019

Please note: Counting Religion in Britain is © Clive D. Field, 2020

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