Religious observance and religious and socio-political attitudes of Muslims (2821)

Type of Data: Religious observance and religious and socio-political attitudes of Muslims (2821)

Faith Community: Islam

Date: 2009, January-May

Geography: Great Britain

Sample Size: 480

Population: Muslims aged 18 and over

Keywords: Abortion, al-Qaeda, anti-Semitism, attendance at religious services, black people, British National Party, Britishness, Buddhists, civil unions, congregation membership, creationism, discrimination, divorce, evolution, fasting, freedom of speech, gender roles, God, good and evil, headscarves, homosexuality, importance of religion, interpretation, Islam, Jews, Koran, literalism, modern society, morality, Osama bin Laden, people of no religion, politics, prayer, prejudice, pre-marital sex, public debates, Ramadan, religion, religious divisions, religious dress, religious leaders, same-sex marriage, satisfaction with life, self-assessed spirituality, self-identity, sense of belonging, sense of self, Sharia, teachings of Islam, truth of religion, voting, white people

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: Ipsos MORI

Sponsor: Harvard, Manchester and Notre Dame Universities, with funding from the John Templeton Foundation

Published Source:

http://www.brin.ac.uk/wp-content/documents/Field-Muslim-opinions-and-opinions-of-Muslims-Dec-2010.pdf

http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/2013/muslim-distinctiveness-and-other-news/

Valerie Lewis and Ridhi Kashyap, 'Are Muslims a Distinctive Minority? An Empirical Analysis of Religiosity, Social Attitudes, and Islam', Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 52, 2013, pp. 617-26

BRIN ID: 2821

Remarks:

The sample was drawn from Super Output Areas with 10% or more Muslims in the 2001 census and contained an over-representation of South Asians

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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