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Confidence in the Church and other institutions; religious and paranormal beliefs, practices and attitudes; religious experience; religious aspects of Christmas; anticipation of Christian-Muslim conflict in the 1990s and of a continuing established Church (1872)


Type of Data: Confidence in the Church and other institutions; religious and paranormal beliefs, practices and attitudes; religious experience; religious aspects of Christmas; anticipation of Christian-Muslim conflict in the 1990s and of a continuing established Church (1872)

Faith Community: General, Christianity (Church of England), Islam, Alternative

Date: 1989, 6-13 December

Geography: Great Britain

Sample Size: 969

Population: Adults aged 16 and over

Keywords: Abortion, afterlife, Archbishop of Canterbury, astrology, baptism, Bible, black magic, blasphemy, Book of Common Prayer, carols, Christian country, Christianity, Christians, Christian society, Christmas, Church, church and state, church attendance, churchgoing, confidence, confirmation, contraception, cribs, death, deja vu, devil, disestablishment, divorce, Easter, evil, exchanging messages with the dead, extra-marital sex, faith, faith healing, flying saucers, fortune telling, ghosts, God, heaven, hell, homosexuality, horoscopes, hypnotism, importance of God, influence of religion, institutions, Jesus Christ, Latin Mass, life after death, lucky charms, lucky mascots, miracles, morality, Muslims, nature, New Testament, Old Testament, ordination of women, paranormal, patterning, political issues, politics, power, prayer, premonition, presence, priests, reincarnation, religious affiliation, religious education, religious experience, religious festivals, religious rules, sacred, self-assessed religiosity, sex, spirituality, spiritualism, spiritual power, superstition, telepathy, thought transference, women

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll)

Sponsor: Sunday Telegraph

Published Source:

  • Sunday Telegraph, 24 and 31 December 1989
  • Gallup Political Index, No. 352, December 1989, pp. 4-6, 8-12, 21-4, 28
  • Index to International Public Opinion, 1989-1990, eds. Elizabeth Hann Hastings and Philip K. Hastings, New York: Greenwood Press, 1991, pp. 28, 301-2, 317, 468-77, 528, 554

    BRIN ID: 1872

    Remarks:

    Posted by: Clive D. Field


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