Tag Archives: Christianity

Marginalized Christians?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The All Party Parliamentary Group ‘Christians in Parliament’, chaired by Conservative MP Gary Streeter, is currently conducting the ‘Clearing the Ground’ inquiry, which seeks to establish whether changes to the law and recent court decisions have adversely affected Christian freedoms … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Christianity, Christians in Parliament, Clearing the Ground, ComRes, Cpanel, discrimination, marginalization, Premier Christian Media Trust, public life | 1 Comment

Perceived Threats to Christianity

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Forced to choose, churchgoing Christians in the UK are far more likely to think that secularism rather than Islam is the greater threat to Christianity, according to poll data made available to BRIN by ComRes but not yet posted on … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Christianity, Christians, ComRes, Cpanel, Islam, Premier Christian Media, secularism, threats | 1 Comment

Attitudes towards Britain’s Involvement in the Afghanistan Conflict by Religious Affiliation

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Ben Clements

As well as looking at behaviour and attitudes in relation to the 2010 general election (participation, method of voting, party voted for, etc.), the EMBES survey contains a wealth of attitudinal data relating to long-standing or more recent political issues in Britain. One of these is the involvement of British military forces in the conflict in Afghanistan. Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics | Tagged Afghanistan, Angus Reid, Ben Clements, British Election Study, Christianity, EMBES, Ethnic Minority, Gallup, Hinduism, Ipsos-MORI, Islam, Sikhism, War, YouGov | Leave a comment

Not Ashamed – Christianity in Britain

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Some sections of British evangelical Christianity feel increasingly beleaguered in the face of what they perceive as the progressive marginalization of their faith, at the hands of the law, the media, government and employers. Christian Concern is one organization seeking … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Christian Concern, Christian country, Christian Legal Centre, Christian symbols, Christianity, Christians, ComRes, conscience, cross, discrimination, employers. employment, foster care, freedom of speech, health care workers, homosexuality, Muslims, Not Ashamed, prayer, religious freedom, workplace | 2 Comments

Dunfermline Presbytery Community Survey

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Other than statistics regularly collected by the various Christian denominations, there is only limited national data about religion in Scotland in very recent years. One has to go back to sources such as the 2001 civil census, the religion module … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Allan Vint, Christianity, church attendance, Church of Scotland, Dunfermline Presbytery, God, heaven, Jesus Christ, Sunday school | Leave a comment

Daybreak Surveys Religion

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Daybreak is the new breakfast television programme for the ITV network, anchored by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley and launched on 6 September. It has made an early entry into surveying public opinion by commissioning YouGov to run a poll on … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged attendance at religious services, child abuse, Christianity, church weddings, Citizenship Survey, Daybreak, Faith schools, inter-faith marriage, ITV, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Religious Affiliation, religious leaders, respect, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse, YouGov | Leave a comment

Muslim Integration in Scotland

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The British Council Scotland has recently released a report on Muslim Integration in Scotland, by Amy Homes, Chris McLean and Lorraine Murray, and based upon quantitative and qualitative research undertaken by Ipsos MORI Scotland. The report, commissioned under the auspices … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Amy Homes, bombings, British Council Scotland, Chris McLean, Christianity, compatibility, favourable opinions, Glasgow airport, integration, Ipsos MORI Scotland, Islam, Islamophobia, Lorraine Murray, loyalty, Muslim Integration in Scotland, Muslims, Scotland, toleration | 1 Comment

Christianity in Western Europe

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Clive D. Field

On 1 April the Paris-based Roman Catholic daily newspaper La Croix published the headline findings of a poll which it had commissioned into Western European attitudes to Christianity. The survey was undertaken online by the Institut Français d’Opinion Publique (IFOP) … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Christian Churches, Christian values, Christianity, Christians, Europe, France, Germany, IFOP, Institut Francais d'Opinion Publique, Italy, La Croix, Spain, validity of religions, visibility of Christians, young people | Leave a comment

Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Eric Kaufmann was published by Profile Books on 25 March (xxii + 330pp., ISBN 978 1 84668 144 8, £15.00, but currently available from Amazon for … Continue reading →

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Religion and Politics – A New Opinion Poll

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Since its launch in November 2006 the public theology think tank, Theos, has performed valuable service in a number of ways, not least (in the cause of religious statistics) by commissioning a series of opinion polls to gauge public attitudes … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Christianity, ComRes, Islam, politics, religious freedom, Theos, voting | 1 Comment

Thanks for your query. There are no recent British data on these topics which spring to mind, at least so…

Is there any data on the number of converts to Christianity from Islam and vice versa in the UK?

The census of population (2001, 2011, 2021) is the main statistical source for non-Christian and other faiths and groups. Jews…

Very interesting

Where are the statistics for other religious groups? In addition, analysis on the differences between 1st to 3rd generation migrant…

One response to “Religion and Politics – A New Opinion Poll”

British Religion in Numbers: news

April 28, 2010

[…] Clive Field has already posted extensively earlier this week here and here on the ComRes/CPanel survey of Christians’ political attitudes, conducted 30 March-12 April. The think-tank Theos also commissioned a poll of religion and politics on 17 and 18 February, which Clive has covered here. […]