Monthly Archives: January 2011

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

Hereafter Report

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Today marks the UK release of Warner Brothers’ supernatural thriller film Hereafter, based on the screenplay by Peter Morgan and directed by Clint Eastwood. It stars Matt Damon as George, a seemingly ordinary guy who has a special gift allowing … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged afterlife, exchanging messages with the dead, ghosts, guardian angels, heaven, Hereafter, paranormal, Penny Sartori, Princess Diana, psychic powers, reincarnation, Religiosity, spirituality | 3 Comments

Future of the Global Muslim Population

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The long-awaited Pew report on The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Projections for 2010-2030 was eventually published yesterday by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life. The Forum, based in Washington DC, is a non-partisan organization … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Measuring religion, News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate | Tagged cohort-component method, demography, fertility, Forum on Religion and Public Life, Immigration, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Islam, Muslims, Pew Research Center, Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project | Leave a comment

The Ways We Say Goodbye

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Even for those not overtly religious in their everyday lives, the three rites of passage (birth/baptism, marriage and death – or, colloquially put, hatching, matching and dispatching) have traditionally been a point of contact with institutional religion. Church of England … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Co-operative Funeralcare, death, funerals, humanism, ICM Research, rites of passage | 4 Comments

Perceptions of Discrimination

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Today’s news includes a report that two devout Christians running a private hotel in Cornwall have been found to be in breach of the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 for refusing to allow a gay couple to share a … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Anti-Semitism, atheists, Christianophobia, Christians, discrimination, Islamophobia, Jews, Muslims, prejudice, The Sun, YouGov | 2 Comments

Latest Cohesion Research

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Religious prejudice may be diminishing, and community cohesion increasing, according to the latest statistics from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) Citizenship Survey, released on 13 January. The data relate to April-September 2010, the first two quarters of … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged Britishness, Citizenship Survey, Civic Engagement, community cohesion, decision-making, Department for Communities and Local Government, Ipsos-MORI, religious harassment, religious prejudice, religious violence, TNS-BMRB, volunteering | 1 Comment

School League Tables

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The Government has caused a stir this week with the appearance of school league tables which incorporate its new performance measure of the English Baccalaureate, comprising grade A*-C GCSEs or equivalent passes in five core subjects: English, mathematics, a science, … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged English Baccalaureate, GCSEs, government, religious education, religious studies, school league tables, The Sun, YouGov | 1 Comment

Introverts in the Cathedral

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Clive D. Field

A press release from Glyndwr University just before Christmas drew attention to the publication of some results of a Glyndwr research team into the application of Jungian psychological type theory to profile the visitors to two Anglican cathedrals. Psychological type … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Andrew Village, Chester Cathedral, Church of England, Emyr Williams, extraversion, Glyndwr University, introversion, Jennie Annis, Jennie Brice-Annis, Leslie Francis, Mandy Robbins, psychological type theory, Simon Mansfield, St Davids Cathedral, tourism, Visitor Studies, visitors | 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

Eddie You can email them to c.d.field@bham.ac.uk Best wishes. Clive

Hi. Who do we email data reports to?

Dear Deborah BRIN has not looked into this, but I am hopeful that you may be able to find this…

Hello, Do you happen to have a breakdown of the Religious affiliation of the Roma/Gypsy population in the UK? For…

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

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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Christmas Churchgoing in the Diocese of London

Hereafter Report

Future of the Global Muslim Population

The Ways We Say Goodbye

Perceptions of Discrimination

Latest Cohesion Research

School League Tables

Introverts in the Cathedral

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3 responses to “21st Century Evangelicals”

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