Viewing of and attitudes to religious television; religious beliefs, practices and attitudes (1674)

Type of Data: Viewing of and attitudes to religious television; religious beliefs, practices and attitudes (1674)

Faith Community: General, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism

Date: 1993, 23 June-20 August

Geography: United Kingdom

Sample Size: 1201, together with booster samples for Black Pentecostalists (n = 146), Hindus (n = 105), Muslims (n = 145), and Jews (n = 166)

Population: Adults aged 16 and over with a working television in the household

Keywords: Christian country, Christianity, church attendance, churchgoing, ethnic minorities, God, Hindus, importance of religion, Jews, meaning of life, moral standards, Muslims, only true religion, Pentecostalists, religious affiliation, religious broadcasting, religious programmes, religious television, rules, self-assessed religiosity

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: Paul Winstone Research

Sponsor: Independent Television Commission

Published Source:

Barrie Gunter and Rachel Viney, Seeing is Believing: Religion and Television in the 1990s, London: John Libbey, 1994

BRIN ID: 1674

Remarks:

Qualitative research was also undertaken among various groups, including atheists or agnostics, Black churches, Greek Orthodox, Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Sikhs

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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