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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2021

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Clive D. Field

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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Posted in church attendance, Covid-19, Historical studies, Measuring religion, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Education, Religion and Social Capital, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Action and Protection League, afterlife, Andrew Village, Anti-Semitism, balanced affect, Carli Lessof, church at home, church attendance, Church of England, Church of Scotland, clergy or priests, climate change, coronavirus, Covid-19, David Graham, death, Denise Bonnette, diurnal activity, economic and social value of churches, Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, evangelicals, Family and Community History, Freddie Sayers, General Synod, Greg Smith, Halloween, hate crimes, holocaust, Home Office, Ian Jones, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos Global Trustworthiness Index, Ipsos SA, Ipsos-MORI, Israel, Jersey Road PR, Jews, John Payne, Jonathan Boyd, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Ken Eames, Leicestershire, Leslie Francis, Lincolnshire, manses, Mental Health Religion and Culture, Methodist Church, Michael Hirst, Michael Marshall, Milan Dinic, Ministry of Justice, Muslim Census, Muslims, National Churches Trust, ordinary theology, Peter Ould, prayer, prisoners, professions, Psephizo, redundant churches, Religious Affiliation, religious prejudice, Salvation Army, Savanta ComRes, secularization, student finance, The Skeptic, Theology and Ministry, trick or treating, trustworthiness, UnHerd, work-related psychological health, YouGov | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, September 2021

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 72, September 2021 features 15 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 72 September 2021

OPINION POLLS

Savanta ComRes/Culham St Gabriel’s Trust poll on religious education
Coronavirus chronicles: Savanta ComRes poll on prayer and church attendance
Science versus religion: two questions from Special Eurobarometer 516
Anti-Semitism and the Labour Party
Online safety: public attitudes to anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial posts and comments
Scottish views on increased immigration from Muslim-majority countries

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: the impact of the pandemic on English Anglican cathedrals
Coronavirus chronicles: Quaker statistics for year-ending 31 December 2020
Coronavirus chronicles: the Jewish experience of Covid-19
National Secular Society’s new tool against faith schools: the local authority scorecard
Centre for Muslim Policy Research paper on animal slaughter without pre-stunning

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: final report of British Ritual Innovation under Covid-19 project
Coronavirus chronicles: the state of Anglican clergy morale one year into the pandemic
Coronavirus chronicles: newspaper coverage of Muslims during the Covid-19 pandemic
Five other recent academic publications

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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2021

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 70, July 2021 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 70 July 2021

OPINION POLLS

Coronavirus chronicles: comfort about resuming attendance at places of worship
Perceived tension between different religions: Ipsos multinational survey
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
Reported sightings of, and suspected government secrecy about, UFOs: YouGov poll

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Church Army launches ‘investigating the distanced church’
Coronavirus chronicles: Methodist Church Statistics for Mission
Coronavirus chronicles: Jewish mortality during the first year of the pandemic

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Coronavirus chronicles: marriages in Scotland dramatically down in 2020

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Recent articles in academic journals: theme issue on psychological type and religion
Recent articles in academic journals: six miscellaneous

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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, April 2021

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 67, April 2021 features 11 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 67 April 2021

OPINION POLLS

Religious and faith groups ranked bottom of ten agencies for the support they offer
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: the Church of England’s community response to the pandemic
Coronavirus chronicles: the Scottish Church experience of Covid-19
Coronavirus chronicles: the Muslim experience of Covid-19
Coronavirus chronicles: the Jewish experience of Covid-19
British Sikh Report, 2020
Widespread disregard of daily collective worship in maintained schools in England

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Religion and Euroscepticism in Brexit Britain
Attitudes of contemporary British Catholics to personal morality and the priesthood
Primitive Methodism in Hertfordshire before 1918

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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, February 2021

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 65, February 2021 features 30 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 65 February 2021

OPINION POLLS

Coronavirus chronicles: are things really looking up that much for the Churches?
Coronavirus chronicles: Christian Aid poll on Covid-19 vaccines in developing nations
Coronavirus chronicles: returning to places of worship after lockdown
Coronavirus chronicles: Survation on lockdown of Scottish places of worship
Coronavirus chronicles: religious correlates of attitudes to abortion in England
Perceived importance of religion for getting ahead in life: KCL inequality poll
The Together Initiative’s Our Chance to Reconnect report: religion questions
ICM/Henry Jackson Society poll of UK adults and Black Britons: religion comparisons
Savanta ComRes report on Church Leaders Panel for 2020
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: reaching for the Bible in a time of pandemic
Coronavirus chronicles: Church of England discussion paper on its prospects
Coronavirus chronicles: the attitudes of churchgoing laity in the Church of England
Coronavirus chronicles: survey of the views of Christian event organizers
Coronavirus chronicles: Jewish mortality from Covid-19
Community Security Trust’s anti-Semitic incidents report for 2020
Coronavirus chronicles: the Muslim experience of Covid-19
Attitudes of young British Christians towards climate change
Church of England’s carbon footprint: first year’s data from energy tool

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

On your marks! The decennial population census of England and Wales is on 21 March
Scottish Surveys Core Questions: 2019 results released

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: University of York’s ‘Covid-19, Churches, and Communities’
Coronavirus chronicles: launch of Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS)
Coronavirus chronicles: impact of Covid-19 on London’s Strictly Orthodox Jews
Renewal in the Baptist Union of Great Britain during the 1990s
Theology and Religious Studies Provision in UK Higher Education (2019): A response
Three recent articles in academic religion journals

NEW DATASETS

UK Data Service, SN 8767: Community Life Survey, 2019–2020
UK Data Service, SN 8772: British Social Attitudes Survey, 2019

PEOPLE NEWS

Katie Harrison appointed Archbishop of Canterbury’s public affairs adviser

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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

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2020

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 61, October 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 61 October 2020

OPINION POLLS

Religious or spiritual wellbeing as a source of happiness: Ipsos Global Advisor poll
Religious attitudes to climate change: Savanta ComRes polling for Christian Aid
Attitudes to Sunday trading laws in England and Wales: latest YouGov tracker
Coronavirus chronicles: not so happy holidays–Ipsos MORI poll of public expectations
Coronavirus chronicles: religious correlates of Christmas planning during a pandemic
Conspiracy theories: public knowledge of, and support for, QAnon in Great Britain
Conspiracy theories: have humans made contact with aliens?
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
Labour Party and anti-Semitism: Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension as a party member

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Economic and social value of church buildings: The House of Good report
Coronavirus chronicles: YourNeighbour’s The Church in Lockdown report
Coronavirus chronicles: more findings from ‘Coronavirus, Church, and You’ survey
Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2019 and Digital Report, 2020
Church of England Living Ministry research: summative report–How Clergy Thrive
Coronavirus chronicles: survey of Baptist Union churches during lockdown
Coronavirus chronicles: round-up of the Jewish experience of Covid-19
European Jewish population trends and estimates
Perceived threat to secular education: new National Secular Society research report

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Home Office annual report on hate crime in England and Wales, 2019/20

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Revisiting secularization in modern Britain: Steve Bruce’s latest book
Islam and Muslims on British university campuses
Residential patterns of Strictly Orthodox Jewish communities in Britain
Coronavirus chronicles: UCL study of Covid-19’s effects on religious worship

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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

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