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Counting Religion in Britain, September 2020

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 60, September 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 60 September 2020

OPINION POLLS

Coronavirus chronicles: attending places of worship after lockdown
Coronavirus chronicles: has good neighbourliness increased during the pandemic?
Coronavirus chronicles: religion and volunteering before, during, and after lockdown
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK
Islamophobia in the Conservative Party: Hope Not Hate report
Resonating narratives: Islamist and far-right extremism among young people
World’s most admired people: YouGov’s annual global poll
Belief in the existence of life on other planets
Religious correlates of attitudes to sex education in the Scottish school curriculum

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Catholic Voices report on Catholic experiences of the pandemic
Coronavirus chronicles: round-up of the Jewish experience of Covid-19
Gendered Islamophobia: Muslim women’s experiences of hate and hate crime
Youthscape report on Christian youth ministry and missional practice

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Non-stun slaughter of animals: Food Standards Agency discontinues reporting data
Religious affiliation in Scotland: results of 2019 Scottish Household Survey
Religious hate crime in Scotland, 2019–20

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Miscellany of recent academic journal articles

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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

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Counting Religion in Britain, June 2020

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 57, June 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 57 June 2020

OPINION POLLS

Coronavirus chronicles: relaxation of Sunday trading laws in England and Wales
Coronavirus chronicles: the practice of meditation
Coronavirus chronicles: pre- and post-lockdown religious affiliation
Religious London: Savanta ComRes polling for Theos
Attitudes of trustees to the management and governance of charities
Security of places of worship: survey conducted for Jacksons Fencing
Public’s continuing disinclination to adopt the Common Era dating system
Importance of teaching of Religious Studies at secondary school
Perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as problems in the UK

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: Evangelical Alliance report on Changing Church
Coronavirus chronicles: Roman Catholic responses to ‘Coronavirus, Church, and You’
Coronavirus chronicles: Anglican responses to ‘Coronavirus, Church, and You’
Coronavirus chronicles: UK Jewish mortality statistics
Recent Church of England reports
Other annual denominational statistical returns for 2019

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Coronavirus chronicles: Covid-19 deaths by religion in England and Wales

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Catholics in Britain research project: results for attitudes to women priests
Revisiting Methodism and social inclusion: a preferential option for the affluent?
Islamophobia in North-East England
Recent academic journal articles

NEW DATASETS

UK Data Service, SN 8632: Annual Population Survey, January-December 2019
UK Data Service, SN 8648: Survey of Londoners, 2018–19
UK Data Service, SN 8649: Health Survey for England, 2018

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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2020

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 54, March 2020 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 54 March 2020

OPINION POLLS

Ozanne Foundation’s latest research into religious attitudes to same-sex marriage
Religious attendance in England in 2018: Savanta ComRes survey for Jerusalem Trust
Reading habits: analysis of YouGov Profiles data for World Book Day
Is there too much talk about religious prejudice? ICM Unlimited poll for British Future
British Muslim attitudes to policing, extremism, and the Prevent programme
Who is triskaidekaphobic? YouGov survey on March’s Friday the thirteenth

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus and faith communities: Church of England, Jews, Muslims, and humanists

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religion and belief in UK higher education: Advance HE report on 2017/18 data

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Catholics in Britain: new resources on the project website
Five recent articles from academic journals

NEW DATASET

UK Data Service, SN 8608: Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2018–2019

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Counting Religion in Britain, February 2020

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 53, February 2020 features 24 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 53 February 2020

OPINION POLLS

Frequency and subjects of prayer: Savanta ComRes poll for Premier Christian Media
Monarchy and Supreme Governorship of the Church of England: Daily Express poll
Attitudes to people holding opposite views about the existence of God
Anti-Semitism and Lord Ashcroft’s diagnosis of Labour’s defeat in the general election
Electoral damage from anti-Semitism assessed by Labour Party members and affiliates
Public attitudes to Labour Party’s response to allegations of anti-Semitism
Public support for a Labour Party plan to tackle anti-Semitism
Knowledge of the Holocaust: YouGov poll to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
Affluence and wellness priorities: YouGov study of wealthy households

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

SunLife’s Cost of Dying Report, 2020: the diminishing religious aspect of funerals
Acute NHS chaplaincy pastoral, spiritual, and religious care services in England
Barna Group and The Connected Generation research project: UK report
Children and youth ministry in the Church of England: General Synod paper
Church Buildings Council report on struggling Church of England places of worship
Catholic Education Service 2019 census of Catholic schools and colleges
UK Jews and organ donation
Community Security Trust’s Antisemitic Incidents Report, 2019

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Exploring Religion in England and Wales: equalities data audit by the ONS

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Religious census of Cumbria, 1851: critical edition of the manuscript returns
Catholics in the British Social Attitudes Surveys and British Election Studies
Hypothetical collective action by British Muslims against Islamist extremism

NEW DATASETS

UK Data Service, SN 8584: Community Life Survey, 2018–2019
UK Data Service, SN 8591: National Survey for Wales, 2018–2019
UK Data Service, SN 8606: British Social Attitudes Survey, 2018

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2019

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 51, December 2019 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 51 December 2019

OPINION POLLS

Who doesn’t like Christmas? Some religious correlates from YouGov Profiles
Attitudes to Jews and Muslims: ICM Unlimited polling for Avaaz
Attitudes to Israel and the Middle East conflict: annual Populus/BICOM survey, 2019
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’s fanbase consultation on the use of the Y-word
Autumn 2019 Eurobarometer: what value do we place on religion?

OPINION POLLS–2019 GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN (PART 2)

Religion and party choice: Lord Ashcroft’s data on how people actually voted
Muslims and the general election: Savanta ComRes poll for Henry Jackson Society
Anti-Semitism as a general election issue for the Labour Party

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Wellbeing and flourishing among Church of England clergy and ordinands

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

ONS Research Report on Population Estimates by Ethnic Group and Religion
UK Sikhs and the ethnicity question in the 2021 census of population
Religious profession of UK armed forces personnel: biannual update

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Religion and party choice: data from the British Election Study Internet Panel
Religion and party choice among Roman Catholics in 2017 and 2019
Pew Research Center on religion and living arrangements around the world
Religion and parental values: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study
Muslim perceptions of Western hostility to Islam in 2011 and 2013
Annual update of BRIN source database for 2019

NEW DATASET

Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2018

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2019

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 50, November 2019 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 50 November 2019

OPINION POLLS

Attitudes to Christianity, faith, and Bible: Lumino website launched by Bible Society
Attitudes to right and wrong: Savanta ComRes poll on morality for the BBC
ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism, 2019 update
Antisemitism Barometer, 2019 from the Campaign against Antisemitism
Muslim women and removal of the face veil
Trust in clergy and other professions: Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, 2019

OPINION POLLS–2019 GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN

December 2019 general election: religion and voting intention
December 2019 general election: anti-Semitism and Islamophobia [9 polls]

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Does the 2030 Future Have a Church? New e-book from Peter Brierley
Church of England cathedral statistics, 2018
Statistics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
British Muslims and the December 2019 general election

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Crimes at churches and religious buildings, 2017–19: police data under FOI requests
Diversity reporting by Government departments and agencies

ACADEMIC STUDY

Periodizing secularization in modern British history

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2019

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 49, October 2019 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 49 October 2019

OPINION POLLS

Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2019: religion questions
Religious discrimination in the European Union: a Eurobarometer restudy
One in nine Britons claim to have communicated with somebody beyond the grave
Claimed use of Ouija boards
How children cope with the death of people and pets: Legal and General research
Religious attitudes towards adoption: ComRes poll for Home for Good
Focus of Remembrance Sunday: new polling by Populus
Public knowledge of complaints of anti-Semitism against members of the Labour Party
Jewish political engagement (and disengagement): Survation poll
Ethnic minorities in Scotland and their experiences of, and attitudes to, discrimination
Perceived threat posed by Islamic extremist and other terror groups
Changing British moral attitudes: Ipsos MORI polling from 1989 and 2019 compared

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Charitable and church giving by Christian television viewers: Christian Opinion Panel
Competitive car insurance premiums for the clergy: quotezone.co.uk survey
Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2018
Church of England digital report, 2019
Fresh Expressions of Church in the Anglican Diocese of Leicester
‘The God who speaks’: Roman Catholics and scripture – a new initiative

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religious hate crime in England and Wales recorded by the police, 2018/19
Religious affiliation of prisoners in England and Wales, 30 September 2019

NEW DATASET

First release of European Social Survey, Round 9, 2018

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Counting Religion in Britain, September 2019

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 48, September 2019 features 18 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 48 September 2019

OPINION POLLS

Trust in clergy and other professions: Ipsos Global Advisor survey in 23 countries
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Ipsos Global Advisor survey in 27 countries
Friendships formed through churches or other religious communities
Children’s participation in harvest festivals: ComRes survey for the Church of England
The Bible as holiday reading: survey by Stena Line
Extra-terrestrials: Survation poll for the University of Oxford
Labour Party and anti-Semitism: another YouGov survey of the views of party members

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

The UK’s favourite hymn, 2019: BBC Songs of Praise special
Terms and conditions of salaried children, youth, and families workers in UK churches
Church of England ministry statistics, 2018
Church in Wales annual report on membership and finance for 2018
Safeguarding in the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales in 2018
Holy Alliances: Demos report on Church-secular partnerships
Unrequested assignment of children to faith schools: National Secular Society research
NATRE survey into provision of religious education in English state secondary schools

ACADEMIC STUDY

Political realignment of British Jews: towards an explanation

NEW DATASET

UK Data Service, SN 8402: Scottish Referendum Study, 2014

PEOPLE NEWS

Church growth specialist Revd Dr David Goodhew returns to Anglican parish ministry

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