Religion and spirituality in the congregational domain and holistic milieu (1405)

Type of Data: Religion and spirituality in the congregational domain and holistic milieu (1405)

Faith Community: Christianity, Alternative

Date: 2000, 1 October-2002, 30 June

Geography: Local survey. Kendal (Cumbria)

Sample Size: 187 church attenders (36% response) and 252 practitioners or clients (42% response)

Population: Church attenders and practitioners or clients in the holistic milieu

Keywords: Abortion, afterlife, alternative spirituality, angels, Bible, Celestine Prophecy, Chakras, chi, Christian books, Christianity, Church, church activities, church attendance, churchgoing, civil disobedience, complementary spirituality, devil, disarmament, divorce, drinking to excess, ecology, education, environment, euthanasia, extra-marital sex, extra-sensory perception, faith, family, Findhorn, gambling, global inequality, God, government policy, healing, heaven, hell, Holy Spirit, homosexuality, importance of faith, intuition, Jesus Christ, ley lines, life after death, life force, massage, meaning of life, meditation, miracles, New Age, poverty, prayer, precognition, pre-marital sex, profanity, racial discrimination, reason, reincarnation, religion, religious experience, religious leaders, religious literature, religious upbringing, scripture, self-assessed religiosity, sin, soul, spanking, spirit, spirituality, spirit world, subtle energy, Sunday working, Tai Chi, therapies, true self, UFOs, unemployment, unidentified flying objects, yoga

Collection Method: Self-completion postal questionnaire

Collection Agency: Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University

Published Source:

Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead, The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005

David Voas and Steve Bruce, 'The Spiritual Revolution: Another False Dawn for the Sacred', A Sociology of Spirituality, eds. Kieran Flanagan and Peter C. Jupp, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp. 43-61

Paul Heelas, 'The Holistic Milieu and Spirituality: Reflections on Voas and Bruce', A Sociology of Spirituality, eds. Kieran Flanagan and Peter C. Jupp, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp. 63-80

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/projects/ieppp/kendal/methods.htm

BRIN ID: 1405

Remarks:

A census of attendance at places of worship in Kendal was also conducted on 26 November 2000

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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