Churchgoing, audiences for religious broadcasts, and attitudes to religious education and the Bible (2441)

Type of Data: Churchgoing, audiences for religious broadcasts, and attitudes to religious education and the Bible (2441)

Faith Community: General, Christianity

Date: 1954, 1-15 December

Geography: Great Britain

Sample Size: 1859

Population: Adults aged 16 and over

Keywords: Afterlife, Bible, Bible class, British Broadcasting Corporation, church attendance, churchgoing, divorce, immortality, life after death, Old Testament, prayer, religious affiliation, religious broadcasting, religious broadcasts, religious education, Sunday school

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: British Institute of Public Opinion

Sponsor: British Broadcasting Corporation Audience Research Department and Central Religious Advisory Committee

Published Source:

Religious Broadcasts and the Public: A Social Survey of the Differences Between Non-Listeners and Listeners to Religious Broadcasts, London: British Broadcasting Corporation Audience Research Department, 1955

Sunday School Chronicle, 18 August 1955

Robert J. E. Silvey, 'The Audiences for Religious Broadcasts', Religion on the Air: Three Talks Given to the St Paul's Lecture Society, London: British Broadcasting Corporation, [1956], pp. 5-14

Asa Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Volume IV: Sound and Vision, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979, pp. 796-800

Kenneth Maurice Wolfe, The Churches and the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1922-1956: The Politics of Broadcast Religion, London: SCM Press, 1984, pp. 470-4

BRIN ID: 2441

Remarks:

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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