Characteristics of benefices in the Church in Wales, and characteristics, attitudes and social values of its clergy and laity (1824)
Type of Data: Characteristics of benefices in the Church in Wales, and characteristics, attitudes and social values of its clergy and laity (1824)
Faith Community: Christianity (Church in Wales)
Date: 1989 (benefices and clergy), 1991 (laity)
Geography: Wales
Sample Size: 549 benefices (91% response), 687 clergy, 803 laity
Population: Benefices, clergy and churchgoing laity of the Church in Wales
Keywords: Baptism, benefices, benefits, Bible, causes for hope or despair, Church, church attendance, churchgoing, Church in Wales, clergy, communicants, community service, confirmation, Easter, ecumenism, funerals, income, job satisfaction, lay workers, ministry
Collection Method: Self-completion questionnaire
Collection Agency: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Wales, Swansea
Sponsor: Archbishop of Wales
Published Source:
Christopher Charles Harris, The Archbishop's State of the Church Study: Report on Phase One, Being the Responses of Deaneries and Parishes Throughout the Province, Penarth: Church in Wales Publications, 1991Christopher Charles Harris, The Archbishop's State of the Church Study, Phase Two: Report of the Survey of the Laity, Penarth: Church in Wales Publications, 1993Christopher Charles Harris, The Archbishop's State of the Church Study: Final Report to the Governing Body, Penarth: Church in Wales Publications, 1993Christopher Charles Harris and Richard Startup, 'Lay Characteristics and Religious Attitudes in the Church in Wales', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 13, No. 8, 1993, pp. 50-66Christopher Charles Harris and Richard Startup, 'The Church in Wales: A Neglected Welsh Institution', Contemporary Wales, Vol. 7, 1995, pp. 97-116Christopher Charles Harris and Richard Startup, 'Clergy Activities and Attitudes in the Church in Wales', Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 7, 1996, pp. 109-26Richard Startup and Christopher Charles Harris, 'Elements of Religious Belief and Social Values Among the Laity of the Church in Wales', Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 12, 1997, pp. 215-28Christopher Charles Harris and Richard Startup, The Church in Wales: The Sociology of a Traditional Institution, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999
BRIN ID: 1824
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