Tag Archives: church attendance

Census Question Under Fire

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Clive D. Field

There are just six days to go before UK residents have to complete the household and individual questionnaire for the decennial population census. But humanists are still simultaneously maintaining their attack on the voluntary question on religion while paradoxically encouraging … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, News from religious organisations, Official data, Survey news | Tagged British Humanist Association, Census, church attendance, Humanist Society of Scotland, humanists, Jesus Christ, Office for National Statistics, Religious Affiliation, Scotland, self-assessed religiosity, YouGov | 1 Comment

Searchlight on Religion

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Clive D. Field

A major new source of public opinion data on religion and inter-faith relations has just become available in the form of a Populus poll for Searchlight Educational Trust. The survey is of unusual importance in terms of the number of … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Christians, church attendance, English nationalism, extremism, force for good, freedom of speech, Hindus, importance of religion, inter-faith relations, Islam, Islamophobia, Jews, legislation, mosques, multiculturalism, Muslims, personal identity, politics, Populus, religious abuse, Religious Affiliation, religious leaders, religious prejudice, Searchlight Educational Trust, Sikhs, violence | 1 Comment

A Perfect Companion

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Anybody feeling a little at sea in the plethora of religious data may find a new briefing paper from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) a great boon. Written by EHRC’s research manager, David Perfect, and simply entitled Religion … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, Official data | Tagged British Social Attitudes Survey, Census, church attendance, Church of England, Citizenship Survey, clergy, David Perfect, Employment Tribunal, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Eurobarometer, God, Integrated Household Survey, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, Religious discrimination, religious prejudice | 2 Comments

Getting Ahead in Life

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The traditional annual volume derived from the British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey was published by Sage just before Christmas. Edited by Alison Park, John Curtice, Elizabeth Clery and Catherine Bryson, The 27th Report: Exploring Labour’s Legacy was based on the … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Survey news | Tagged abuse, British Social Attitudes Survey, children, church attendance, getting ahead, importance of religion, NatCen, Religious Affiliation, social care | Leave a comment

Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2009

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The provisional Church of England statistics for mission for 2009, released yesterday in the form of five tables and eight maps, ‘paint a mixed picture’, according to Revd Lynda Barley, the Church’s Head of Research and Statistics, quoted in an … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, visualisation | Tagged Anglicans, baptisms, Bob Jackson, Christmas, church attendance, Church of England, communicants, confirmations, Easter, electoral roll, Fresh Expressions, funerals, Lynda Barley, marriages, rites of passage, statistics for mission, thanksgivings | 5 Comments

Christmas Churchgoing in the Diocese of London

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Anglican churches in the Diocese of London (which serves 17 boroughs in Greater London north of the River Thames) saw Christmas Eve and Christmas Day attendance levels rise by one-fifth between 2009 and 2010, according to returns from a cross-section … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations | Tagged Christmas, church attendance, Church of England, Diocese of London, religious festivals | Leave a comment

21st Century Evangelicals

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Clive D. Field

According to a large-scale survey of churchgoing published by Tearfund in 2007, there are approximately two million evangelical Christians in the UK. Hitherto, we have had only limited insights into their profile and attitudes. We now know a great deal … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged abortion, assisted suicide, Bible, black majority churches, Christian festivals, Christian Research, church attendance, civil partnerships, Ecumenism, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, evangelism, evolution, extra-marital sex, gifts of the Spirit, giving, God, hell, homosexuality, importance of faith, inter-faith work, Jesus Christ, prayer, small groups, social action, tithing, volunteering, voting | 3 Comments

Back to Church Sunday 2010

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Clive D. Field

‘Onward Christian Soldiers: Churches Resurgent’ proclaims the headline in Jonathan Wynne-Jones’s article in today’s Sunday Telegraph, referring to the case advanced by Christian Research over the past three months that the relentless decline in churchgoing may be coming to an … Continue reading →

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Today’s News – (1) ‘Islamic Extremism’, (2) Religion at Christmas

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The regular weekly YouGov poll for The Sunday Times, published today, includes questions on a couple of topics which will interest BRIN readers. Interviewing was online on 16 and 17 December, among a representative sample of 1,966 adult Britons aged … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Christmas, Christmas Day meal, church attendance, churchgoing, commercial festival, extremist preachers, government, Islam, Islamic extremism, Islamophobia, Luton, Luton Islamic Centre, Muslim community, police, prejudice, religious festivals, Rowan Williams, Stockholm, suicide bombing, Sunday Times, Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, terrorism, Terry Jones, universities, YouGov | Leave a comment

Understanding Society

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Clive D. Field

On 13 December the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) made an interim release of data for the general population component from Wave 1, Year 1 (running from 8 January 2009 to 7 March 2010) of Understanding Society, the new … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged British Household Panel Survey, church attendance, discrimination, Economic and Social Data Service, Economic and Social Research Council, employment, harassment, Institute for Social and Economic Research, longitudinal studies, National Centre for Social Research, Religious Affiliation, religious beliefs, Understanding Society, United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study | Leave a comment

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Census Question Under Fire

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Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2009

Christmas Churchgoing in the Diocese of London

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