Attitudes to religious diversity (3229)

Type of Data: Attitudes to religious diversity (3229)

Faith Community: General, Atheism, Christianity, Hinduism, Humanism, Islam, Judaism, Paganism, Sikhism

Date: 2011-2012

Geography: United Kingdom (London, England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland)

Sample Size: 11725 (2296 in London, 2398 in England, 2319 in Wales, 2724 in Scotland, and 1988 in Northern Ireland)

Population: Years 9 and 10 pupils (aged 13-15) attending state-maintained secondary schools, including schools of both a religious and non-religious character

Keywords: Atheists, Buddhists, Christians, conflict, creation, different religious backgrounds, discrimination, empathy, equality, equal rights, evolution, extraversion, father, force for bad, fortune-tellers, friends, ghosts, God, God images, good, guardian angel, harm, heaven, hell, Hindus, holy scripture, horoscope, Humanists, identity, importance of religion, internet, intolerance, Islam, Jews, lie scale, life after death, magic, mother, Muslims, neighbours, neuroticism, Pagans, peace, personality, personal well-being, prayer, Protestants, psychoticism, religious affiliation, religious attendance, religious classes, religious diversity, religious dress, religious education, religious symbols, respect, Roman Catholics, self-assigned religiosity, self-assigned spirituality, Sikhs, superstition, tarot cards, theists, views about religion

Collection Method: Self-completion questionnaire

Collection Agency: Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick

Sponsor: Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council

Survey Instrument: Pyke, 'Assessing and Understanding Young People's Attitudes', pp. 281-98

Published Source:

Leslie John Francis, Jennifer S. Croft, Alice Pyke and Mandy Robbins, 'Young People's Attitudes to Religious Diversity: Quantitative Approaches from Social Psychology and Empirical Theology', Journal of Beliefs and Values, Vol. 33, 2012, pp. 279-92 and Religion, Education, and Society, eds Elisabeth Arweck and Robert Jackson, Abingdon: Routledge, 2014, pp. 31-44

Leslie John Francis, Jennifer S. Croft and Alice Pyke, 'Religious Diversity, Empathy, and God Images: Perspectives from the Psychology of Religion Shaping a Study among Adolescents in the UK', Journal of Beliefs and Values, Vol. 33, 2012, pp. 293-307 and Religion, Education, and Society, eds Elisabeth Arweck and Robert Jackson, Abingdon: Routledge, 2014, pp. 45-60

Leslie John Francis, Gemma Penny, and Alice Pyke, 'Young Atheists' Attitudes toward Religious Diversity: A Study among 13- to 15-Year-Old Males in the UK', Zeitschrift fur Religionspadagogik, Vol. 12, 2013, pp. 57-78

Alice Pyke, 'Assessing and Understanding Young People's Attitudes toward Religious Diversity in the United Kingdom', University of Warwick Ph.D. thesis, 2013

Leslie John Francis and Andrew Village, 'Church Schools Preparing Adolescents for Living in a Religiously Diverse Society: An Empirical Enquiry in England and Wales', Religious Education, Vol. 109, 2014, pp. 264-83

Leslie John Francis, Tania ap Sion, and Gemma Penny, 'Is Belief in God a Matter of Public Concern in Contemporary Wales? An Empirical Enquiry Concerning Religious Diversity among 13- to 15-Year-Old Males', Contemporary Wales, Vol. 27, 2014, pp. 40-57

Leslie John Francis, Andrew Village, Gemma Penny, and Peter Neil, ‘Catholic Schools and Attitudes toward Religious Diversity: An Empirical Enquiry among 13- to 15-Year-Old Students in Scotland’, Scottish Educational Review, Vol. 46, 2014, pp. 36-53

Leslie John Francis, Alice Pyke, and Gemma Penny, ‘Christian Affiliation, Christian Practice, and Attitudes to Religious Diversity: A Quantitative Analysis among 13- to 15-Year-Old Female Students in the UK’, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 30, 2015, pp. 249-63

Elisabeth Arweck and Gemma Penny, ‘Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity: Socialising Agents and Factors Emerging from Qualitative and Quantitative Data of a Nation-Wide Project in the UK’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 36, 2015, pp. 255-73

Jeff Astley and Leslie John Francis, ‘Introducing the Astley-Francis Theology of Religions Index: Construct Validity among 13- to 15-Year-Old Students’, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Vol. 37, 2016, pp. 29-39

Leslie John Francis and Christopher Alan Lewis, ‘Internal Consistency Reliability and Construct Validity of the Astley-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Theistic Faith among Religiously Unaffiliated, Christian, and Muslim Youth in the UK’, Mental Health, Religion, and Culture, Vol. 19, 2016, pp. 484-92

Leslie John Francis and Gemma Penny, ‘Prayer, Personality, and Purpose in Life: An Empirical Enquiry among Adolescents in the UK’, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 27, 2016, pp. 192-209

Leslie John Francis, Gemma Penny, and Mandy Robbins, ‘The Quantitative Strand: An Individual Differences Approach’, Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity, ed. Elisabeth Arweck, London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 31-42

Leslie John Francis, Gemma Penny, and Ursula McKenna, ‘Does RE Work and Contribute to the Common Good in England?’, Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity, ed. Elisabeth Arweck, London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 153-69

Leslie John Francis, Gemma Penny, and Peter Neil, ‘Growing Up Catholic in Scotland: Not One Catholic Community but Three’, Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity, ed. Elisabeth Arweck, London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 186-203

Leslie John Francis, Gemma Penny, and Tania ap Siôn, ‘Schools with a Religious Character and Community Cohesion in Wales’, Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity, ed. Elisabeth Arweck, London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 204-21

Leslie John Francis and Gemma Penny, ‘The Personal and Social Significance of Diverse Religious Affiliation in Multi-Faith London’, Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity, ed. Elisabeth Arweck, London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 222-

Elisabeth Arweck, ‘Religion Materialised in the Everyday: Young People’s Attitudes towards Material Expressions of Religion’, Materiality and the Study of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred, eds Tim Hutchings and Joanne McKenzie, London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 185-202

Leslie John Francis, Tania ap Siôn, Ursula McKenna, and Gemma Penny, ‘Does Religious Education as an Examination Subject Work to Promote Community Cohesion? An Empirical Enquiry among 14- to 15-Year-Old Adolescents in England and Wales’, British Journal of Religious Education, Vol. 39, 2017, pp. 303-16

Leslie John Francis and Ursula McKenna, ‘The Religious and Social Correlates of Muslim Identity: An Empirical Enquiry into Religification among Male Adolescents in the UK’, Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 43, 2017, pp. 550-65

Tania ap Siôn, ‘Seeing how We See Each Other: Learning from Quantitative Research among Young People in the UK’, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2017, pp. 305-17

Leslie John Francis and Ursula McKenna, ‘Assessing Attitude toward Religious Diversity among Muslim Adolescents in the UK: The Effect of Religious and Theological Factors’, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Vol. 38, 2017, pp. 328-40

Leslie John Francis, Christopher Alan Lewis, and Ursula McKenna, ‘Spirituality and Empathy: A Study among Religiously Unaffiliated Adolescents within the UK’, Spirituality of a Personality: Methodology, Theory, and Practice – Collection of Research Materials, Part 1, Issue 3(78), Severodonetsk: Publishing House of the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University, 2017, pp. 325-45

Leslie John Francis and Ursula McKenna, ‘Muslim Attitude toward Freedom of Religious Clothing and Symbols in Schools within the UK: The Effect of Religious and Theological Factors’, Religione e Società, Vol. 32, No. 87, 2017, pp. 50-8

Leslie John Francis, Andrew Village, Ursula McKenna, and Gemma Penny, ‘Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Religious Clothing and Symbols in School: Exploring the Impact of Church Schools in a Religiously Diverse Society’, Religion and Civil Human Rights in Empirical Perspective, edited by Hans-Georg Ziebertz and Carl Sterkens, Cham: Springer, 2018, pp. 157-75

Leslie John Francis and Ursula McKenna, ‘The Experience of Victimisation among Muslim Adolescents in the UK: The Effect of Psychological and Religious Factors’, Religions, Vol. 9, No. 8, 2018, article 243

Leslie John Francis, Jeff Astley, and Ursula McKenna, ‘“Science Disproves the Biblical Account of Creation”: Exploring the Predictors of Perceived Conflict between Science and Religion among 13- to 15-Year-Old Students in the UK’, British Journal of Religious Education, Vol. 41, 2019, pp. 188-201

Leslie John Francis, Gemma Penny, and Jeff Astley, ‘Christian Identities, Theologies of Religion, and Attitude towards Religious Diversity: A Study among 13- to 15-Year-Old Students across the UK’, in Young People and the Diversity of (Non)Religious Identities in International Perspective, edited by Elisabeth Arweck and Heather Shipley, Cham: Springer, 2019, pp. 87-107

Ursula McKenna and Leslie John Francis, ‘Growing up Female and Muslim in the UK: An Empirical Enquiry into the Distinctive Religious and Social Values of Young Muslims’, British Journal of Religious Education, Vol. 41, 2019, pp. 388-401

BRIN ID: 3229

Remarks:

The research project also involved a qualitative strand, reported in Arweck, Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity.

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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