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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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Posted in church attendance, Covid-19, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, People news, Religion and Education, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged aliens visiting Earth, Amy Unsworth, Annual Population Survey, Anti-Semitism, Antisemitism Policy Trust, Beth Singler, Bible Society, Brigitta Horup, Carli Lessof, carol services, celebrity creationists, celebrity scientists, Censuswide, Christmas, Church and organized religion, church attendance, Church of England, clergy and priests, Clive Field, Community Security Trust, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Covid-19, David Lankshear, David Voas, Diocese of Southwark, Ecclesiastical Insurance, Eileen Barker, Elizabeth Poole, ethnicity, Evangelical Alliance, evolution, Fabian Society, Gallup Poll, Gordon Heald, happiness, HTS Theological Studies, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, Ipsos-MORI, Jesus Christ, Jewish Labour Movement, Jewish schools, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, Journal of Religion Media and Digital Culture, Keir Starmer, Ken Eames, Labour Party, Leslie Francis, Liverpool Cathedral, media representation of religion, minority religions, Muslims, National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, National Secular Society, nativity plays, New Religious Movements, newspapers, non-stun slaughter of animals, Office for National Statistics, Opinion Research Business, Oxford University Press, psychological health, Public Understanding of Science, Religious Affiliation, religious education, religious festivals, religious prejudice, rites of passage, Routledge, secularization, Springer International, statistics for mission, Susan Jones, tell the truth, trust, Twitter, UFOs, unidentified flying objects, Ursula McKenna, vaccination rates, well-being, Woolf Institute, YouGov | Leave a comment

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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Posted in church attendance, Covid-19, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, People news, Religion and Education, Religion in the Press, Religion Online, Religious beliefs, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged Aliens, Andrew Village, Anne Lawson, Anthony-Paul Cooper, Anti-Semitism, Battersea, Bishop Grosseteste University, Board of Deputies of British Jews, business, carbon emissions, Centre for Enterprise Markets and Ethics, Centre for Media Monitoring, children’s ministry, Christian Today, Christmas, church attendance, Church of England, climate change, Co-operative Funeralcare, Community Life Survey, Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Coronavirus Church and You, Countryside Alliance, Covid-19, Covid-19 and Church-21, crimes in churches, Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport, energy footprint, enterprise, Evangelical Alliance, Faisal Hanif, fostering, funerals, FutureFirst, God, Grove Books, holocaust, Home for Good, hospitality, hymns, influence of religion, initial teacher education, Islam, Islamophobia, Jews, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Journal of Religion and Health, Kantar Public, Keith Bailey, Kingsley Purdam, Leslie Francis, Linda Woodhead, Local Historian, Mark Plater, marriage, Marriage Foundation, media, mortality, music, Muslims, National Survey for Wales, Office for National Statistics, Paul Weller, Peter Brierley, QAnon, Religious Affiliation, religious education, religious festivals, religious socialization, religious studies, Richard Turnbull, Rural Theology, Samuel Nunney, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Satan-worshipping paedophiles, Savanta ComRes, Schoen Cooperman Research, spiritual need, Stephen Hance, Sunday trading, supported lodgings, taxation, Twitter, University of Turku, Welsh Government, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge | Leave a comment

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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Posted in church attendance, Covid-19, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Education, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religion Online, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Aisha Phoenix, Alana Vincent, Alison Scott-Baumann, Andrew Village, Anglican clergy, animal slaughter, Anti-Semitism, Association of English Cathedrals, atheism, balanced affect, Bethan Juliet Oake, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Cathedrals, Centre for Holocaust Education, Centre for Muslim Policy Research, church attendance, Church of England, Church Times, coronavirus, Covid-19, Culham St Gabriel’s Trust, David Johnson, Deltapoll, Ecorys, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Eleanor O’Keeffe, Elizabeth Poole, Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, Eurobarometer, European Commission, evolution, Faith schools, focaldata, halal, higher education, holistic practice, holocaust, Hope Not Hate, immigration from Muslim-majority countries, Islam, Jeremy Corbyn, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, Jews, Joshua Edelman, Journalism, Kantar UK, Labour Party, Labour Uncut, Leslie Francis, Manchester Metropolitan University, Maryanne Martin, Mathew Guest, Milly Williamson, mindfulness, mortality, Muslims, National Secular Society, newspapers, Otto Simonsson, Oxford University Press, Panelbase, Paulina Kolata, prayer, Quakers, religious education, religious prejudice, Religious Society of Friends, ritual innovation, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Savanta ComRes, science, scientists, Scotland, secondary school teachers, Secularism and Nonreligion, Shurruq Naguib, social media, Sociological Research Online, spiritual but not religious, Stephen Fisher, Sunday Times Scotland, synagogues, University of Chester, Yonder | Leave a comment

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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Posted in church attendance, Covid-19, Measuring religion, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Education, Religion Online, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged A Levels, Alison Geary, Ben Clements, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Cathedrals, census of population, Christian Research, Christopher Alan Lewis, church finances, Church Times, coronavirus, Covid-19, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, David Graham, David Lankshear, digital transformation, Diocese of Llandaff, Ecclesiastical Insurance, Emma Eccles, GCSEs, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Jews, Joint Council for Qualifications, Jonathan Boyd, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Leslie Francis, Mental Health Religion and Culture, Methodists, mortality, National Secular Society, Office for National Statistics, psychological type profile, public examinations, Real Presence, religious hate crime, religious marriages, religious prejudice, religious studies, Resonate, rites of passage, Roman Catholics, Scotland, Simon Mansfield, Stephen Bullivant, Student Voice Project, The Tablet, United Synagogue, Ursula McKenna, visitor expectations | Leave a comment

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, 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, 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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