Religious beliefs, practices and attitudes (1051)

Type of Data: Religious beliefs, practices and attitudes (1051)

Faith Community: General

Date: 2007, 18-27 July

Geography: Great Britain. Part of multinational survey

Sample Size: 1001 (15% response)

Population: Adults aged 18 and over

Keywords: Afterlife, angels, astrology, childrearing, church attendance, churchgoing, conversion, demons, disease, divine, end of the world, evil, God, importance of religion, life after death, life crises, meaning of life, meditation, nature, other religions, politics, prayer, religious affiliation, religious beliefs, religious books, religious commandments, religious experience, religious issues, religious upbringing, rites of passage, sacrifices, self-assessed religiosity, self-assessed spirituality, sexuality, supernatural powers, tolerance

Collection Method: Telephone interview

Collection Agency: TNS

Sponsor: Bertelsmann Foundation

Survey Instrument: What the World Believes, ed. Rieger, pp. 715-28

Published Source:

Religion Monitor 2008, Europe: Overview of Religious Attitudes and Practices, Gutersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2008

Olaf Muller and Detlef Pollack, 'Churchliness, Religiosity and Spirituality: Western and Eastern European Societies in Times of Religious Diversity', What the World Believes: Analyses and Commentary on the Religion Monitor, 2008, ed. Martin Rieger, Gutersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2009, pp. 399-416

David Voas, 'Varieties of Religious Commitment in Great Britain and Australia', What the World Believes: Analyses and Commentary on the Religion Monitor, 2008, ed. Martin Rieger, Gutersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2009, pp. 417-36

Petra-Angela Ahrens, Claudia Schulz and Gerhard Wegner, 'Religiosity with a Protestant Profile', What the World Believes: Analyses and Commentary on the Religion Monitor, 2008, ed. Martin Rieger, Gutersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2009, pp. 513-31

Anton A. Bucher, 'Religiosity and Spirituality Among Young Adults', What the World Believes: Analyses and Commentary on the Religion Monitor, 2008, ed. Martin Rieger, Gutersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2009, pp. 607-27

Michael N. Ebertz, 'The Older the More Devout? Religiosity in the Twilight Years', What the World Believes: Analyses and Commentary on the Religion Monitor, 2008, ed. Martin Rieger, Gutersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2009, pp. 629-39

BRIN ID: 1051

Remarks:

Multinational survey, undertaken in 20 countries besides Great Britain; data tables for each country published on the CD-ROM issued with What the World Believes, ed. Rieger

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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