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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, 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, August 2019

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 47, August 2019 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 47 August 2019

OPINION POLLS

Spring 2019 Eurobarometer: what value do we place on religion?
School assemblies: should they include acts of religious worship?
Religion in schools: views and experiences of teachers
Support for vulnerable children overseas correlated with frequency of churchgoing
Political and diplomatic fallout from the defeat of Islamic State’s caliphate
ComRes polling on attitudes to Islam and Islamophobia
Enhancing the visitor experience? Rochester Cathedral and that mini-golf course

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Burying Traditions: Co-operative Funeralcare’s latest report on funeral trends
Normalising Hatred: Tell MAMA Annual Report, 2018

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Mode of solemnization of marriages in Scotland, 2018 – the rise of Humanism
Religious Studies GCE A Level
Religious Studies GCSE Level
Scottish qualifications in Religious Studies

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Bertelsmann Stiftung Religion Monitor III, 2017: the politics of religious pluralism
Recent publications on religious psychology co-authored by Professor Leslie Francis

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Counting Religion in Britain, June 2019

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 45, June 2019 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 45 June 2019

OPINION POLLS

Conservative Party, Muslims, and Islamophobia: the views of Party members
Terrorism in London: YouGov poll for the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Allchurches Trust survey of children’s and young people’s ministry in UK and Ireland
Church of England’s digital outreach: LentPilgrim and EasterPilgrim reflections, 2019
Three years’ worth of Church of England national safeguarding data
British Sikh Report, 2019

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Gift Aid payments made to charitable sectors, 2014/15 to 2018/19
Religious profession of UK-domiciled university students in England
Religious affiliation of Scottish Government workforce, March 2019

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Understanding Unbelief Programme: interim findings about atheists and agnostics
ESRC research grant to open up UK Gallup opinion poll data for 1945-91
Parental right of withdrawal of children from religious education in English schools

NEW DATASETS

UK Data Service, SN 8461: Annual Population Survey, January-December 2018
UK Data Service, SN 8464: Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2017-2018
UK Data Service, SN 8466: Wellcome Global Monitor, 2018

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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2019

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 42, March 2019 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 42 March 2019

OPINION POLLS

Crossing religious divides: multinational survey by Ipsos for the BBC
Humanist weddings: Humanists UK’s new poll and analysis of Scottish divorce data
Self-understanding of anti-Semitism: Deltapoll for Jewish Chronicle
Jews, political parties, and anti-Semitism: Survation poll for Jewish Leadership Council
YouGov@Cambridge tracker on Islam’s perceived compatibility with British values
Islamic State: YouGov polling on the death of Shamima Begum’s son

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

European Jewish Demographic Unit established by Institute for Jewish Policy Research

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Mode of solemnization of marriages in England and Wales in 2016
Report on diversity of candidates and elected officials in Great Britain

ACADEMIC STUDIES

The Bible and digital millennials: new survey-based research from CODEC
Religion and Brexit: evidence from the 2016 British Election Study Referendum Panel
Gender differences in religion and spirituality among technical and health professionals
Muslim perceptions of discrimination in Western Europe: revisiting 2006 Pew data

NEW DATASET

UK Data Service, SN 8450: British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017

PEOPLE NEWS

Revd Professor David Alfred Martin, FBA (1929-2019)

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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2019

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 40, January 2019 features 22 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 40 January 2019

OPINION POLLS

Brexit: religious voting patterns in any second referendum
Disestablishment: monarchy and the Church of England
Global opinions of Pope Francis
Attitudes to Common Era dating
Perceptions of anti-Semitism in the European Union
Holocaust knowledge and attitudes
Supernatural predictions for 2019

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Anti-Semitic Google searches in the UK
Hostility towards Israel
Number of Jewish students at Jewish schools

ACADEMIC STUDIES

British Political Facts
Beliefs and attitudes of clergy and laity in the Church of England
Methodist leadership and psychological type
Political behaviour and civic engagement of British Muslims
Victimization of Muslim adolescents
Adolescent attitudes towards abortion and euthanasia
Religiosity of academic scientists in the UK
Missionary origins of religious quantification
Eighteenth-century English Quaker numbers
Local censuses of church attendance, 1881-82

NEW DATASETS

UK Data Service, SN 8398: Scottish Health Survey, 2017
UK Data Service, SN 8418: British Election Study, 2017 Face-to-Face Post-Election Survey

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2018

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 39, December 2018 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 39 December 2018

OPINION POLLS

The Times end-of-year religion poll
Eurobarometer: valuing religion
Understanding religious festivals
Christmas carols
Religious education in schools
Racial bias
Perils of perception, 2018
Islam and British society
Sexual violence

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Faith schools and school choice
Barna’s Pastor Poll
Jewish brain drain
European Union survey of anti-Semitism

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Census of population, England and Wales, 2021

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Marriage law: religious elements in civil marriage
Religious education teachers
Anglican self-identity
Anglican clerical burnout
Violence against Anglican clergy

PEOPLE NEWS

Ben Clements: research grant to survey Catholics

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2018

Posted on December 2, 2018 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 38, November 2018 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 38 November 2018

OPINION POLLS

Trust in clergy and priests
Trust in religious leaders and other matters
Clergy as lawmakers
Child sexual abuse
Religion and sex
Church social action
Christmas traditions
Religion in Europe
Anti-Semitism

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Christians making a difference
Church of England social action
Church of England statistics for mission
Church of England digital report
Church of England gender pay gap
Distance to church
Jewish charity

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

National barometer of prejudice

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Anglican church growth
Muslims and education

PEOPLE NEWS

Ceri Peach (1939-2018)

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