Attitudes to the conduct and outcomes of the National Pastoral Congress, including the bishops’ questions and statements on socio-political issues; religious beliefs, practices and attitudes (2112)

Type of Data: Attitudes to the conduct and outcomes of the National Pastoral Congress, including the bishops’ questions and statements on socio-political issues; religious beliefs, practices and attitudes (2112)

Faith Community: Christianity (Roman Catholic Church)

Date: 1981, November-December

Geography: England and Wales

Sample Size: 1276 (65% response)

Population: Delegates to the National Pastoral Congress, Liverpool, May 1980 (other than bishops)

Keywords: Abortion, Bible, birth control, British Council of Churches, celibacy, change, Christian unity, Church, church attendance, charismatic prayer meeting, churchgoing, church schools, confession, contraception, divorce, ecumenism, English Mass, euthanasia, evil, faith schools, folk music, God, Holy Communion, Holy Spirit, house mass, Latin Mass, lay ministry, married priests, Mass, ministry, missionary concerns, multiculturalism, Nationality Bill, National Pastoral Congress, Northern Ireland, nuclear weapons, ordination of women as deacons/priests, parish organizations, politics, poverty, prayer, pre-marital sex, priests, religion, religious discussion group, religious education, remarriage of divorcees, social justice, spiritual books, third world, unemployment, unilateral disarmament, vernacular, weapons of mass destruction, women

Collection Method: Self-completion postal questionnaire

Collection Agency: Department of Sociology, University of Surrey

Sponsor: University of Surrey and Nuffield Foundation

Survey Instrument: Hornsby-Smith and Cordingley, Catholic Elites, pp. 40-7

Published Source:

The Tablet, 8 and 15 May 1982

Michael Peter Hornsby-Smith and Elizabeth S. Cordingley, Catholic Elites: A Study of the Delegates to the National Pastoral Congress, University of Surrey Department of Sociology Occasional Paper No. 3, Guildford: the Department, [1983]

Michael Peter Hornsby-Smith, Michael Procter, Lynda T. Rajan and Jennifer Brown, 'A Typology of Progressive Catholics: A Study of the Delegates to the National Pastoral Congress', Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 26, 1987, pp. 234-48

Michael Peter Hornsby-Smith, Roman Catholics in England: Studies in Social Structure Since the Second World War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 139-53

BRIN ID: 2112

Remarks:

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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