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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2024

Posted on May 25, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 104, May 2024 features fifteen 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 104 May 2024

OPINION POLLS

Attitudes to faith in public life
Attitudes to Sunday trading hours in England and Wales
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: where do British public sympathies lie?
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: university student opinion

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Will religion count in the UK and other national elections in 2024?
UK evangelical Christians and politics
Church of England attendance statistics, 2023: preliminary view
Church of Scotland congregational statistics, 2023
Collective worship in state schools: teacher attitudes and experiences
Further release from the UK National Jewish Identity Survey
National Jewish Student Survey, 2024

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Scotland’s census, 2022: religious affiliation data
Hate crimes recorded by the police in Scotland, 2022–23

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: giving up on online or offline services during lockdown

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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2022

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 79, April 2022 features 14 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 79 April 2022

OPINION POLLS

Easter as a ‘proper’ special occasion: international YouGov poll
Planned attendance at religious services over the Easter weekend
Religious or spiritual wellbeing as source of greatest happiness: Ipsos global poll
Science and religion: YouGov poll for Theos and Faraday Institute
Talking Jesus: HOPE Together’s 2022 research
Importance of teaching Religious Studies at secondary school: YouGov tracker data

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Future of UK church buildings: results of National Churches Trust consultation
Coronavirus chronicles: some Anglican experiences of distanced church
Coronavirus chronicles: Methodist responses to ‘Covid-19 and Church-21 Survey’
Coronavirus chronicles: Baptist Union statistics, 2021
Two recent blogs from Muslim Census

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Scotland’s census of population, 2022

ACADEMIC STUDY

Levels of religious commitment among British Catholics

NEW DATASET

UK Data Service, SN 8928: Annual Population Survey, January-December 2021

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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2020

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 56, May 2020 features 16 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 56 May 2020

OPINION POLLS

Religion and the Covid-19 pandemic: Savanta ComRes polling for Tearfund
Religion and the Covid-19 pandemic: Savanta ComRes polling for Christian Aid
Religion and the Covid-19 pandemic: Populus polling on stress indicators
Religion and the Covid-19 pandemic: YouGov polling on funerals in churches
Religion and the Covid-19 pandemic: Savanta ComRes polling on church reopenings
Willingness to discuss religious/spiritual beliefs: Savanta ComRes poll for Hospice UK
Talking Toddlers: Savanta ComRes poll on young children, their parents, and Church

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Coronavirus chronicles: news from the religious press
Coronavirus chronicles: Stephen Bullivant’s book on Catholicism and the pandemic
Coronavirus chronicles: UK Jewish mortality still disproportionately high
Coronavirus chronicles: have Muslims also been disproportionately impacted?
Coronavirus chronicles: Sikh Network’s Covid-19 impact study of the Sikh community

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Parliamentary approval of The Census Order (England and Wales) 2020

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Religion and party choice in the British general elections of 2010, 2015, 2017, and 2019
Coronavirus conspiracy theories: the alleged roles of Jews, Muslims, and globalists

NEW DATASET

UK Data Service, SN 8628: Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2016

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2019

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 51, December 2019 features 19 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 51 December 2019

OPINION POLLS

Who doesn’t like Christmas? Some religious correlates from YouGov Profiles
Attitudes to Jews and Muslims: ICM Unlimited polling for Avaaz
Attitudes to Israel and the Middle East conflict: annual Populus/BICOM survey, 2019
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’s fanbase consultation on the use of the Y-word
Autumn 2019 Eurobarometer: what value do we place on religion?

OPINION POLLS–2019 GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN (PART 2)

Religion and party choice: Lord Ashcroft’s data on how people actually voted
Muslims and the general election: Savanta ComRes poll for Henry Jackson Society
Anti-Semitism as a general election issue for the Labour Party

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Wellbeing and flourishing among Church of England clergy and ordinands

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

ONS Research Report on Population Estimates by Ethnic Group and Religion
UK Sikhs and the ethnicity question in the 2021 census of population
Religious profession of UK armed forces personnel: biannual update

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Religion and party choice: data from the British Election Study Internet Panel
Religion and party choice among Roman Catholics in 2017 and 2019
Pew Research Center on religion and living arrangements around the world
Religion and parental values: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study
Muslim perceptions of Western hostility to Islam in 2011 and 2013
Annual update of BRIN source database for 2019

NEW DATASET

Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2018

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2019

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 50, November 2019 features 23 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 50 November 2019

OPINION POLLS

Attitudes to Christianity, faith, and Bible: Lumino website launched by Bible Society
Attitudes to right and wrong: Savanta ComRes poll on morality for the BBC
ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism, 2019 update
Antisemitism Barometer, 2019 from the Campaign against Antisemitism
Muslim women and removal of the face veil
Trust in clergy and other professions: Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, 2019

OPINION POLLS–2019 GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN

December 2019 general election: religion and voting intention
December 2019 general election: anti-Semitism and Islamophobia [9 polls]

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Does the 2030 Future Have a Church? New e-book from Peter Brierley
Church of England cathedral statistics, 2018
Statistics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
British Muslims and the December 2019 general election

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Crimes at churches and religious buildings, 2017–19: police data under FOI requests
Diversity reporting by Government departments and agencies

ACADEMIC STUDY

Periodizing secularization in modern British history

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2019

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 49, October 2019 features 21 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 49 October 2019

OPINION POLLS

Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2019: religion questions
Religious discrimination in the European Union: a Eurobarometer restudy
One in nine Britons claim to have communicated with somebody beyond the grave
Claimed use of Ouija boards
How children cope with the death of people and pets: Legal and General research
Religious attitudes towards adoption: ComRes poll for Home for Good
Focus of Remembrance Sunday: new polling by Populus
Public knowledge of complaints of anti-Semitism against members of the Labour Party
Jewish political engagement (and disengagement): Survation poll
Ethnic minorities in Scotland and their experiences of, and attitudes to, discrimination
Perceived threat posed by Islamic extremist and other terror groups
Changing British moral attitudes: Ipsos MORI polling from 1989 and 2019 compared

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Charitable and church giving by Christian television viewers: Christian Opinion Panel
Competitive car insurance premiums for the clergy: quotezone.co.uk survey
Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2018
Church of England digital report, 2019
Fresh Expressions of Church in the Anglican Diocese of Leicester
‘The God who speaks’: Roman Catholics and scripture – a new initiative

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Religious hate crime in England and Wales recorded by the police, 2018/19
Religious affiliation of prisoners in England and Wales, 30 September 2019

NEW DATASET

First release of European Social Survey, Round 9, 2018

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Counting Religion in Britain, September 2019

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 48, September 2019 features 18 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 48 September 2019

OPINION POLLS

Trust in clergy and other professions: Ipsos Global Advisor survey in 23 countries
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Ipsos Global Advisor survey in 27 countries
Friendships formed through churches or other religious communities
Children’s participation in harvest festivals: ComRes survey for the Church of England
The Bible as holiday reading: survey by Stena Line
Extra-terrestrials: Survation poll for the University of Oxford
Labour Party and anti-Semitism: another YouGov survey of the views of party members

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

The UK’s favourite hymn, 2019: BBC Songs of Praise special
Terms and conditions of salaried children, youth, and families workers in UK churches
Church of England ministry statistics, 2018
Church in Wales annual report on membership and finance for 2018
Safeguarding in the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales in 2018
Holy Alliances: Demos report on Church-secular partnerships
Unrequested assignment of children to faith schools: National Secular Society research
NATRE survey into provision of religious education in English state secondary schools

ACADEMIC STUDY

Political realignment of British Jews: towards an explanation

NEW DATASET

UK Data Service, SN 8402: Scottish Referendum Study, 2014

PEOPLE NEWS

Church growth specialist Revd Dr David Goodhew returns to Anglican parish ministry

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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2019

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 44, May 2019 features 19 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 44 May 2019

OPINION POLLS

European Union Parliamentary election: Lord Ashcroft’s post-voting poll in Britain
YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project: favourability towards world religions
YouGov tests level of public understanding of the month of Ramadan, just as it starts
Charitable donations to religious causes: findings from the 2019 UK Giving report
Spiritual/religious preparations left out of readiness to die planning, ComRes finds
London’s skyline: Londoners express appreciation of St Paul’s Cathedral
Anti-Semitism and the Labour Party: YouGov polling for the Jewish Chronicle

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Church Commissioners for England annual report for 2018
Scottish Episcopal Church statistics for 2018
Methodist Church of Great Britain statistics for 2018
Baptist Union of Great Britain statistics for 2018
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain tabular statement for 2018
British Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists statistics for 2008-18
Hymns drop out of the top 10 funeral play list, according to Co-operative Funeralcare
Child sexual abuse in religious contexts: IICSA report from the Truth Project

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Catholic lapsation since Vatican II: Britain and the United States compared
Student chaplaincy in UK universities
British Academy probe into future of theology and religious studies in UK universities

PEOPLE NEWS

Professor Ernest (Kopul) Krausz (1931-2018), pioneering Jewish sociologist

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Counting Religion in Britain, February 2019

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 41, February 2019 features 20 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 41 February 2019

OPINION POLLS

Multinational surveys of attitudes towards major world religions
Pew Global Attitudes Survey, 2018 – international concerns, including ISIS
Three surveys on consequences of the erosion of the ISIS caliphate
Hope Not Hate’s report on State of Hate, 2019
YouGov/Jewish Labour Movement survey of anti-Semitism and the Labour Party
Darwin Day poll – belief in evolution and knowledge of Charles Darwin
Religious affiliation
Londoners’ interactions with people from different backgrounds
Popularity of religious education and other subjects with older teenagers

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Ozanne Foundation’s National Faith and Sexuality Survey, 2018
Women speakers on Christian conference platforms in 2018
Church Army Research Unit report on Messy Church
Census of Catholic schools and colleges in England and Wales
Projections of demand for places in state-funded Jewish secondary schools in London
Community Security Trust’s anti-Semitic incidents report, 2018
Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Latest Food Standards Agency statistics of ‘religious’ slaughter of animals

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion
Ethnic minority voters in the 2015 general election
Emergence of the quantitative society – in the long eighteenth century

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2018

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 37, October 2018 features 18 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 37 October 2018

OPINION POLLS

Religion in the home nations
Religion and death
Mocking religion
State of theology
Visiting churches
Islamophobia
Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Christians against Poverty
Christians and climate change
Cathedral statistics

OFFICIAL AND QUASI-OFFICIAL STATISTICS

Hate crime
Is Britain fairer?

ACADEMIC STUDIES

Churchgoers and Darwinian evolution
Clergy burnout
Methodists and party choice
Social science and religion

NEW DATASETS

UK Data Service SN 8390: National Survey for Wales, 2017-2018
Pew Research Center: Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2017

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