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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2024

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 111, December 2024 features thirteen 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 →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Education, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged 1851 Religious Census, anti-Semitic incidents, Brethren, Brethren Historical Review, broadsheet newspapers, Christmas, Church of England bishops, Church of England Diocese of Salisbury, Church of England Statistics for Mission, Community Life Survey, Community Security Trust, David Goodhew, Department for Culture Media and Sport, diversity of the judiciary, episcopal visitation queries, ethnic groups, focaldata, GCSE Religious Studies, Helen Taylor, House of Lords, Irfan Raja, Jews, Ken Eames, likes and dislikes, Mark Smith, media representation of Islam, Ministry of Justice, More in Common, mosques, National Opinion Polls, National Secular Society, Palgrave Macmillan, Policy Institute King’s College London, Preet Kaur Gill MP, public bodies, Public Body Ethnicity Data, Religions journal, religious celebration of Christmas, religious festivals, religious occasion, religious prejudice, religious profession, secularization, Sikhs, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Tim Grass, universities, Verian, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Record Society, YouGov | Leave a comment

Places of Worship in England and Wales, 1999-2009

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Siobhan McAndrew

We have spent a little time compiling data on registered places of worship in England and Wales from 1999-2009 and are making a note here on the data, and the caveats you need to bear in mind before interpreting them. The headline data suggest that ‘mainline’ established denominations are showing a reduction over time in numbers of places of worship, while other world religions, ‘other Christians’, and ‘other’ faith communities are exhibiting a gradual increase.
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Posted in Measuring religion, Official data, Uncategorized | Tagged Baptists, Brethren, Calvinistic Methodists, Congregationalists, General Register Office, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jewish, Mark Littler, Mehmood Naqshbandi, Methodists, Muslims in Britain, National Statistics, Register of Places of Worship, Roman Catholics, Salvation Army, Sikhs, Society of Friends, Unitarians, United Reformed Church | 1 Comment