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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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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, July 2019

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 46, July 2019 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 46 July 2019

OPINION POLLS

Climate change: the views of active Christians and the general public
Anti-Semitism and the Labour Party: the views of the general public
Anti-Semitism and the Labour Party: the views of party members
Islamophobia and the Conservative Party: the views of party members towards Islam
Religion and mental health issues
Religion and dietary preferences
The world’s most admired people: results of YouGov’s latest annual survey

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Anti-Semitic incidents recorded by Community Security Trust, January-June 2019
Media reporting of Islam and Muslims: launch of new monitoring centre

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religious backgrounds of Civil Service staff
Religious backgrounds of UK armed forces
Number of faith schools and their pupils in England: results of 2019 annual census
Religious hate crime in Scotland, 2018-19

ACADEMIC STUDIES

British Social Attitudes Survey and International Social Survey Programme, 2018
Science versus religion: meta-analysis of ten years of data on public attitudes in the UK

NEW DATASETS

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences, Cologne, ZA 7500: European Values Study, 2017 Integrated Dataset
UK Data Service, SN 8478: Community Life Survey, 2017-2018

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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, May 2019

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 44, May 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 44 May 2019

OPINION POLLS

European Union Parliamentary election: Lord Ashcroft’s post-voting poll in Britain
YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project: favourability towards world religions
YouGov tests level of public understanding of the month of Ramadan, just as it starts
Charitable donations to religious causes: findings from the 2019 UK Giving report
Spiritual/religious preparations left out of readiness to die planning, ComRes finds
London’s skyline: Londoners express appreciation of St Paul’s Cathedral
Anti-Semitism and the Labour Party: YouGov polling for the Jewish Chronicle

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Church Commissioners for England annual report for 2018
Scottish Episcopal Church statistics for 2018
Methodist Church of Great Britain statistics for 2018
Baptist Union of Great Britain statistics for 2018
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain tabular statement for 2018
British Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists statistics for 2008-18
Hymns drop out of the top 10 funeral play list, according to Co-operative Funeralcare
Child sexual abuse in religious contexts: IICSA report from the Truth Project

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Catholic lapsation since Vatican II: Britain and the United States compared
Student chaplaincy in UK universities
British Academy probe into future of theology and religious studies in UK universities

PEOPLE NEWS

Professor Ernest (Kopul) Krausz (1931-2018), pioneering Jewish sociologist

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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2019

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 43, April 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 43 April 2019

OPINION POLLS

Forgive us our trespasses: BBC and ComRes investigate the willingness to forgive sins
Lead us not into temptation: Populus probes the consumer market for Easter treats
The importance of religion: findings from the Spring 2018 Pew Global Attitudes Survey
Religion and the legalization of assisted dying: Populus poll for Dignity in Dying
Perceived traits of a ‘good’ Christian (according to YouGov panellists)
YouGov poll on the acceptability of godparents who do not believe in God
YouGov poll on public belief in science-based ‘conspiracy theories’, including creationism
Someone to open up to about worries or personal issues? Rarely to religious leaders
Rebuilding Notre-Dame de Paris after the fire: YouGov sounds out British opinions
Should Catholic priests be able to marry? A YouGov poll seemingly inspired by Fleabag
Contribution of non-Christian soldiers to British war effort during the First World War
Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, and anti-Semitism: latest ComRes poll for Jewish News
Multinational YouGov poll on the perceived threat posed by Islamic State
Accessing legal aid to challenge the revocation of Shamima Begum’s British citizenship
General public’s knowledge of the name for a Sikh place of worship

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Churches outnumber pubs and other public buildings, National Churches Trust finds
Church of Scotland statistical returns for 2018
Divine numerology: Ted Harrison reflects on the sacred significance of numbers . . .

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religion by local authority and region: estimates from the Annual Population Survey
The religion of prisoners in England and Wales as at 31 March 2019

ACADEMIC STUDY

The predictors of young people’s views on the conflict between science and religion

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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, February 2019

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 41, February 2019 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 41 February 2019

OPINION POLLS

Multinational surveys of attitudes towards major world religions
Pew Global Attitudes Survey, 2018 – international concerns, including ISIS
Three surveys on consequences of the erosion of the ISIS caliphate
Hope Not Hate’s report on State of Hate, 2019
YouGov/Jewish Labour Movement survey of anti-Semitism and the Labour Party
Darwin Day poll – belief in evolution and knowledge of Charles Darwin
Religious affiliation
Londoners’ interactions with people from different backgrounds
Popularity of religious education and other subjects with older teenagers

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Ozanne Foundation’s National Faith and Sexuality Survey, 2018
Women speakers on Christian conference platforms in 2018
Church Army Research Unit report on Messy Church
Census of Catholic schools and colleges in England and Wales
Projections of demand for places in state-funded Jewish secondary schools in London
Community Security Trust’s anti-Semitic incidents report, 2018
Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Latest Food Standards Agency statistics of ‘religious’ slaughter of animals

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion
Ethnic minority voters in the 2015 general election
Emergence of the quantitative society – in the long eighteenth century

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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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