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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2024

Posted on July 20, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 106, July 2024 features ten short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No … Continue reading →

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Religious Voting Intentions and Other News

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Religious voting intentions Two large-scale online polls were released last week containing breaks of voting intentions by religious affiliation. There will naturally be heightened interest in these as we are now less than two months away from a general … Continue reading →

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Religion and Morality in the 1950s and 1960s

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Clive D. Field

We reported in the summer on the ongoing scholarly debate about ‘When was secularization?’ (in Britain) – see http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=347. In particular, we noted the arguments of Professor Callum Brown for regarding the 1960s as the major tipping-point on the trajectory … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies | Tagged 1950s, 1960s, morality, Nigel Yates, sex, sexual revolution | 2 Comments