Tag Archives: Church of England

Counting Religion in Britain, January 2016

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 4, January 2016 features 25 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 4 January 2016 OPINION POLLS Nones On 19 January 2016 Professor Linda … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Alan Munden, Andrea Silberman, Andrew Atherstone, Anthony Tricot, Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Urban Priority Areas, Baptist ministry, Baptist Union of Great Britain, Bashar al-Assad, BMG Research, Brierley Consultancy, Bristol and Gloucestershire, British Academy, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire Records Society, Cathedrals, census of population, Censuswide, Charlie Hebdo, Christian Research, Christine Brewster, Christmas, Christopher Stephens, church attendance, Church of England, Church of England Record Centre, clergy, clergy and priests, ComRes, cost of living, Daily Record, David Thompson, death, Donald Trump, Douglas Davies, economic impact, English language skills, entry ban, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, Evening Standard, Faith in the City, Gallup Poll, Gemma Penny, Gloucestershire Record Series, ground troops, hate crimes, Health, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, human rights, Huntingdonshire, Ignite Project Team, Ipsos-MORI, Iraq, Islamic State, Jayne Ozanne, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish lifestyle, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Judith Muskett, Kareena McAloney-Kocaman, Kelvin Randall, Labour Force Survey, labour market penalties, LBC Radio, Leslie Francis, Lia Dong Shimada, Linda Woodhead, London, Mandy Robbins, Mental Health Religion and Culture, Methodist Church, Muslim women, Muslims, Nabil Khattab, New West End Company, Oxera Consulting, Patrick Laycock, Peter Brierley, prayer request, proficiency in English, psychological well-being, radicalization, Religious Affiliation, religious census, Religious discrimination, religious nones, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, retail employees, rites of passage, same-sex marriage, Scotland, Scottish church census, Skaiste Liepyte, Southwark Cathedral, St Vincent de Paul Society, Stanley Brunn, stress, Sunday trading, Survation, Syria, Tania ap Sion, Tariq Modood, terror attack, The Changing World Religion Map, The Tablet, threat, truth, Urban Priority Areas, veracity, visiting and befriending, YouGov | 1 Comment

Counting Religion in Britain, November 2015

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 2, November 2015 features no fewer than 41 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 2 November 2015 OPINION POLLS – GENERAL Religious affiliation ORB … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, religious festivals, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged advertisement, air strikes, Andrew Village, armed forces, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Arzu Merali, Bashar al-Assad, being human, BICOM, BMG Research, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, British Future, British Jews, Cabinet Office, Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, Catholicity, charitable giving, Christian Research, Christians, Christine Brewster, Christmas, Church of England, Church Times, City University, clergy, Clive Field, Colin Shindler, Community Life Survey, ComRes, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, David Cameron, David Graham, David Voas, Digital Cinema Media, Embrace the Middle East, European Union, Eurotrack, Evening Standard, finance, freedom of speech, freedom to practice religion, funerals, Great Britain, ground troops, ICM Unlimited, Ideate Research, importance of God, importance of religion, Independent Press Standards Organisation, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Integrated Household Survey, integration, Ipsos-MORI, Iraq, Islam, Islamic Human Rights Commission, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Israel, Israelis, Jeremy Corbyn, Jewish state, Jihadi John, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Journal of Empirical Theology, Labour Party, Laura Watt, leadership skills, Leave.EU, Leslie Francis, life after death, London, Lord's Prayer, Margaret Harris, Mental Health Religion and Culture, Middle East, military action, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice, Mohammed Emwazi, Muslims, NatCen Social Research, National Offender Management Service, nature of the Church, negotiation, opinion polls, Opinium Research, ORB International, organized religion, Palestine, Paris, Parliament, people of different faiths, Pew Global Attitudes Project, police and security services, Pope Francis, poppy, Populus, prayer, Premier Christian Media, pride in religion, Princeton Survey Research Associates International, prisoners, psychological types, psychological well-being, Religiosity, Religious Affiliation, Religious discrimination, religious meaning, religious texts, Remembrance Day, Resonate, Rural Theology, Saied Reza Ameli, saliency of religion, schools and colleges, Scotland, spirituality, Stephen Miller, Survation, Syria, terrorism, terrorist acts, The Independent, The Sun, The Times, TNS-BMRB, Understanding Society, United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study, United States, volunteering, Western countries, World War III, Yachad, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge, youth social action | Leave a comment

Counting Religion in Britain, October 2015

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Clive D. Field

We are pleased to announce that the migration of the British Religion in Numbers (BRIN) website to its new platform has now taken place, and we are in a position to recommence posting of content to the site. We wish … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged 21st Century Evangelicals, Adrian Burgess, Alice Pettigrew, Amnesty International, Andy Pearce, Anti-Semitism, atheism, atheists, attendance at religious services, BBC, Ben Clements, Bible, bonding social capital, British Bill of Rights, British Social Attitudes Survey, Buddhists, Cathedrals, census of population, Centre for Church Growth Research, Centre for Holocaust Education, Christians, church buildings, Church of England, Churches Trust for Cumbria, ComRes, contraception, Cumbria, Daniel Staetsky, David Cameron, David Goodhew, David Lankshear, David Voas, Deborah Lader, demography, Demos, Devil, Diocese of Southwark, disestablishment, Durham University, Eurobarometer, European Commission, European Values Studies, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, Faith schools, fertility, freedom of religion and thought, Gallup Poll, God, Greg Smith, Hannah Corcoran, heaven, hell, higher education, holocaust, Home Office, homosexuality, Huffington Post UK, human rights, Human Rights Act, importance of religion, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Interlink Foundation, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamophobia, James Lewis, Jews, Jonathan Birdwell, Jonathan Boyd, Journal of Beliefs & Values, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Judith Muskett, Kevin Smith, labour market, Leslie Francis, Libya, life after death, Louis Reynolds, Lucy Olofinjana, madrassas, Methodist Church, millennial Christians, Muslims, NatCen Social Research, National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, Newman Demographic Survey, North East, Pastoral Research Centre Trust, Paul Salmons, Rebecca Hale, Religious Affiliation, religious beliefs, Religious discrimination, Religious diversity, religious extremists, religious hate crimes, religious nones, religious pluralism, Rob Barward-Symmons, Roman Catholic Church, Russia, Ruth-Anne Lenga, science, Scottish Gaelic, secondary schools, secularization, sexual experience, sin, Strictly Orthodox Jews, Stuart Foster, supplementary religious schools, Survation, Syria, TNS UK, United Kingdom Data Service, United Reformed Church, University College London, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge | Leave a comment

Cost of Dying and Other News

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Cost of dying Insurance company SunLife released the report of its ninth annual survey of the cost of dying on 13 October 2015. It was based on interviews conducted by YouGov, online on 8-20 May 2015 among 1,507 UK … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged Baha'is, Baptist Union, China, Christine Brewster, church attendance, church growth, church membership, Church of England, churches, Churches Trust for Cumbria, churchmanship, clergy fees, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Cumbria, Dalai Lama, Daniel Staetsky, Free Tibet Campaign, funerals, Gemma Penny, Home Office, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, Journal of Religious History, Leslie Francis, Mandy Robbins, Mental Health Religion and Culture, Methodist Church, Ministry of Justice, Muslims, orthodox Jews, personality differences, Peter Smith, prisoners, psychological well-being, religious hate crimes, religious prejudice, Rural Theology, SunLife, Tibet, undergraduate students, United Reformed Church, Wales, YouGov | Leave a comment

Exploring Religious Data in the British Social Attitudes 2014 Survey

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Ben Clements

The latest British Social Attitudes 2014 survey has recently been released via the UKDS, which holds all of the other surveys in the BSA series (as well as the data having being added to the online British Social Attitudes Information System). This … Continue reading →

Posted in Research note, Survey news, Uncategorized, visualisation | Tagged British Social Attitudes, British Social Attitudes Surveys, British society, Christianity, Christians, church attendance, Church of England, gay rights, group membership, Non-Denominational Christians, Religious Affiliation, religious attendance, religious belonging, religious extremism, Roman Catholics, same-sex marriage, social attitudes, Survey Data | 1 Comment

Muslim Stories and Other News

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Yearbook of Muslims in Europe One important international reference work which BRIN has hitherto failed to mention in our regular round-ups of British religious statistical news is Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (ISSN 1877-1432), published by Brill since 2009 … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged bonding social capital, census of population, Censuswide, Church of England, David Cameron, David Lankshear, David Voas, Demos, Diocese of Southwark, foreign travel, grandchildren, grandparents, Huffington Post UK, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic countries, Islamic State, James Lewis, Jews, Jonathan Birdwell, Jorgen Nielsen, Journal of Beliefs and Values, Journal of Contemporary Religion, labour market, Leslie Francis, Libya, Louis Reynolds, madrassas, Muslims, Newman Demographic Survey, Pastoral Research Centre, Peter Collins, prayer, Religious Affiliation, religious nones, Roman Catholic Church, Scotland, Scottish Gaelic, supplementary religious schools, Survation, Syria, Tania ap Sion, Travelzoo, Tunisia, World Jewish Relief, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge | Leave a comment

Sunday Trading and Other News

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Sunday trading The Government has recently run a public consultation on its proposals for further deregulation of Sunday shop trading hours in England and Wales, involving devolution to local authorities of decisions to extend hours for large stores beyond … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religious beliefs, Survey news | Tagged Association of Convenience Stores, Barna Group, Church of England, ComRes, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, extra-terrestrial intelligent life, General Synod, Geoffrey Alderman, Jewish Chronicle, Mehmood Naqshbandi, mosques, NatCen Social Research, National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, Oxford Economics, Populus, Statistical and Demographic Research Unit of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Sunday trading, Talking Jesus, Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers, United Kingdom Data Archive, USDAW, YouGov | Leave a comment

Talking Jesus and Other News

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Talking Jesus Newly-published research from the Barna Group on behalf of the Church of England, Evangelical Alliance, and HOPE throws light on perceptions of Jesus, Christians, and evangelism among UK and English adults. Fieldwork was conducted by ComRes on … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Barna Group, Bible, Christianity, Christians, church attendance, Church of England, Clive Field, ComRes, Evangelical Alliance, evangelism, HOPE, ICM Unlimited, importance of religious faith, Islamic State, Jesus Christ, non-Christians, organ donation, practising Christians, Religious Affiliation, Scotland, Scottish Referendum Study, Sunday Times, Syria, The Times, YouGov | Leave a comment

Scottish Religion and Other News

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Scottish religion The continuing decline of religion in Scotland is documented in two publications from the Scottish Government this month. The first, published on 26 August 2015, is Scotland’s People Annual Report: Results from the 2014 Scottish Household Survey, … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged abortion, assisted dying, BBC Radio 4, BBC Trust, British values, cancer, Cathedrals, Church of England, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, faith-based support, ICM Unlimited, Ipsos-MORI, Jeremy Corbyn, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Joint Council for Qualifications, Kelvin Randall, Labour Party, Macmillan Cancer Support, marriage, National Records of Scotland, O Levels, Protestants, Religious Affiliation, religious broadcasting, religious studies, Roman Catholics, same-sex marriage, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish Household Survey, stipendiary clergy, Survation, theology, YouGov | Leave a comment

Trustworthiness of Clergy and Other News

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Trustworthiness of clergy Clergy occupy the middle ground of professionals in terms of their perceived trustworthiness, according to two Opinium Research surveys published on 12 August 2015, for which representative samples of adults were interviewed online in the UK … Continue reading →

Posted in Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged A Levels, Beaufort Research, Cambre Associates, church growth, Church of England, clergy, diversity, European Union, examinations, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Islamic State, Islamophobia, John Hayward, Joint Council for Qualifications, LBC Radio, London, London mayoral election, Muslims, National Survey for Wales, Opinium Research, professions, Religious Affiliation, religious studies, TNS-BMRB, trustworthiness, YouGov | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Church of England

Cost of Dying and Other News

Talking Jesus and Other News

Scottish Religion and Other News

Trustworthiness of Clergy and Other News

Recent News

Recent Sources

Archives

Recent Comments

British Religion in Numbers is funded as a British Academy Research Project