Tag Archives: Clive Field

Humanist Marriages and Other News

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Herewith eight more religious statistical news stories which have come to hand during the past week. Humanist marriages Humanist marriages have been legal in Scotland since 2005, and in 2011 (the latest year for which data are available) they were … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Abu Qatada al-Filistini, Alan Munden, British Humanist Association, census of population, church growth, Church of England, church-joining, church-leaving, Clive Field, County Durham, Diocese of Leicester, hate preachers, humanism, humanist marriages, Islamism, Islamophobia, Jordan, Lee Rigby, London, mission statistics, Muslim communities, National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, NATRE, Northumberland, primary schools, Religious Affiliation, religious education, Scottish Episcopal Church, Sociology of Religion Study Group, SocRel, St Paul's Cathedral, Sun on Sunday, Surtees Society, Survation, Warburtons, Woolwich, YouGov | Leave a comment

Scottish Social Attitudes and Other News

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Start your week with BRIN’s latest selection of British religious statistical news, comprising three sources of data on the contemporary scene plus a reassessment of religious belonging in the Edwardian era a century ago. Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2011 The … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Survey news | Tagged 21st Century Evangelicals, British Journal of Religious Education, Callum Brown, children, church attendance, church membership, Clive Field, education, Edwardian era, Evangelical Alliance, Faith schools, Halloween, Journal of Religious History, Lincolnshire, Mark Plater, Redbridge, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, religious education, religious festivals, ScotCen Social Research, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey | 1 Comment

Abortion and Other News

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Our lead religious statistical news story today concerns the first release of data from the YouGov poll specially commissioned for the 2013 series of Westminster Faith Debates, which commences tomorrow. There will be further releases of data in connection with … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Abby Day, abortion, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, BBC, Ben Quinn, census of population, Charles Clarke, Clive Field, Community Security Trust, Linda Woodhead, nominalist Christianity, Religious Affiliation, religious census, same-sex marriage, The Guardian, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov | Leave a comment

Britishness and Other News

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Clive D. Field

The lead item in today’s round-up of religious statistical news sheds some light on the phenomenon of cultural Christianity which arises in connection with the 2011 religious census. In keeping with BRIN’s objectives, we also find space for some historical … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged ACT Network, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, British Future, Britishness, Buckinghamshire, Christianity, Church of England, Clive Field, Diocese of Lincoln, Diocese of Salisbury, Ecclesiastical Insurance, Geoff Knott, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Ipsos-MORI, John Broad, jubilee, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, metal theft, Oxford University Press, Rachael Jolley, Shute Barrington, social action, tensions, visitation returns, volunteering, William Wake, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine | 1 Comment

Christmas and Other Themes

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Today’s ‘bumper’ round-up of religious statistical news features seven stories. Two are Christmas-themed; two summarize public attitudes to the religious dimensions of the same-sex marriage debate; two report on new research among Roman Catholics; and the last highlights reflections on … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Bible, Bible Society, carols, Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, census of population, Christian Research, Christmas, church attendance, Church of England, churchgoing, Clive Field, Daily Telegraph, Diocese of Portsmouth, Freedom to Marry, homosexuality, ICM Research, Ipsos-MORI, Linda Woodhead, liturgy, Mail on Sunday, Missale Romanum, nativity, nativity plays, Paul Inwood, Religious Affiliation, religious festivals, religious knowledge, religious weddings, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, Roman Missal, same-sex marriage, Simon Walters, Survation, The Sun, The Tablet, YouGov | 1 Comment

Some Historical Religious Statistics

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Although much of BRIN’s focus, and probably the majority of our reader interest, lies in the area of contemporary British religious statistics, we continue to delve into historical data and will periodically feature them in our posts. Here are three … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies | Tagged 1851 Religious Census, Chris Paton, church attendance, church membership, Clive Field, demography, fertility, First World War, Methodism, Methodist Church, mortality, nuptiality, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, religious belonging, The National Archives, Your Family History | 1 Comment

Eighteenth-Century Religious Statistics

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Clive D. Field

The statistical analysis of religion in England and Wales has usually commenced with the mid-nineteenth century, but the first holistic quantification of eighteenth-century religious adherence has now been published, as a contribution to the BRIN project, in Clive Field, ‘Counting Religion … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies | Tagged Archdeaconry of Salop, Church of England, Clive Field, Diocese of Salisbury, Journal of Church and State, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, religious adherence, Shropshire Record Society, Sylvia Watts, Wiltshire Studies | 4 Comments

Islamophobia in the West

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Islamophobia in the West: Measuring and Explaining Individual Attitudes, edited by Marc Helbling (of the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin) was published by Routledge on 16 February 2012 (ISBN 978-0-415-59444-8, hardback, £80). The book comprises 13 essays exploring the views … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Measuring religion, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate | Tagged attitude scales, Citizenship Survey, Clive Field, Erik Bleich, Islam, Islamophobia, Marc Helbling, Marco Cinnirella, Muslims, Rahsaan Maxwell, social psychology, students | Leave a comment

Muslim Integration

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Concern among Britons about the integration of Muslim immigrants into British society has lessened somewhat over the past year but still remains at quite a high level, according to the fourth report on Transatlantic Trends: Immigration, published in Washington on … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Clive Field, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Immigration, integration, Islamophobia, Muslims, Transatlantic Trends | Leave a comment

Occupy London and St Paul’s Cathedral

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The photograph of St Paul’s Cathedral standing proud amid the chaos of the London Blitz was one of the most striking and iconic images of the Second World War, at once tangible evidence of a seeming miracle and a beacon … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-Catholicism, Church and State, Church of England, Clive Field, establishment, Giles Fraser, legislation, monarchy, Occupy London, protest, Roman Catholics, St Paul's Cathedral, Sunday Times, YouGov | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: Clive Field

Humanist Marriages and Other News

Abortion and Other News

Christmas and Other Themes

Some Historical Religious Statistics

Eighteenth-Century Religious Statistics

Muslim Integration

Occupy London and St Paul’s Cathedral

Recent News

Recent Sources

Archives

Recent Comments

2 responses to “Occupy London and St Paul’s Cathedral”

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