Extent of religious discrimination (3493)
Type of Data: Extent of religious discrimination (3493)
Faith Community: General
Date: 2010-2011
Geography: England and Wales
Sample Size: 499 (29% response)
Population: National, regional, and local religious organizations
Keywords: Benefits agency, criminal justice and immigration, education, employment, funding, government policy, health care, housing, legislation, leisure services, media, other religious groups, Paul Weller, planning services, public transport, Religion and Society Programme, religious discrimination, shops and stores, social services, unfair treatment, University of Derby, University of Manchester, University of Oxford
Collection Method: Self-completion postal and online questionnaire
Collection Agency: Faculty of Education, Health, and Sciences, University of Derby in partnership with University of Oxford and University of Manchester
Sponsor: Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council Religion and Society Programme
Published Source:
Paul Weller, Kingsley Purdam, Nazila Ghanea, and Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality: Britain in Global Contexts, London: Bloomsbury, 2013Tristram Hooley and Paul Weller, ‘Surveying the Religious and Non-Religious Online’, Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion, edited by Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Suha Shakkour, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, pp. 13-25Kingsley Purdam, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Nazila Ghanea, and Paul Weller, ‘Religious Organizations and the Impact of Human Rights and Equality Laws in England and Wales’, Politics, Religion, and Ideology, Vol. 18, 2017, pp. 73-88
BRIN ID: 3493
Remarks:
The research, which also had a qualitative component (comprising 234 interviews and 40 focus group participants in five locations, and 211 practitioners attending five knowledge exchange workshops), mostly replicated a previous study undertaken for the Home Office in 1999-2001; 201 organizations responded to both the 2000 and 2010-11 surveys.
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