Religious beliefs, practices and attitudes (2501)

Type of Data: Religious beliefs, practices and attitudes (2501)

Faith Community: General, Christianity

Date: 1944, October-1945, January

Geography: Local survey. London Borough of Hammersmith

Sample Size: 500

Population: Adults

Keywords: Afterlife, church attendance, churchgoing, divinity of Christ, God, Jesus Christ, life after death, most important thing in life, prayer, progress, purpose of life, religion, religious affiliation, religious organizations, science, Ten Commandments, Virgin Birth

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: Mass-Observation

Sponsor: Ethical Union

Published Source:

Church Times, 24 August 1945

Mass-Observation, Puzzled People: A Study in Popular Attitudes to Religion, Ethics, Progress and Politics in a London Borough, London: Victor Gollancz, 1947

BRIN ID: 2501

Remarks:

The original papers for this study will be found at the Mass-Observation Archive, University of Sussex, TC 47/13/A-K, 47/14/A-E. The survey was replicated in 1960. A brief reference to this fact was made by Tom Harrisson, Britain Revisited, London: Victor Gollancz, 1961, p. 258, but the raw material for this later survey is not in the Mass-Observation Archive

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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