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The British Election Study 2015: Religious affiliation and attitudes

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Ben Clements

This second post, based on analysis of the British Election Study (BES) 2015, looks at selected attitudes of religious groups in Britain. Two waves of panel data (conducted in, respectively, February-March 2014 and April-June 2014) have so far been made … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Research note, Survey news | Tagged 2005 Election, 2010 Election, British Election Studies, British Election Study 2015, equality, gay rights, gender equality, lesbian gay and bisexual people, Political Attitudes, political parties, racial equality, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, Survey Data, voting, Voting Behaviour, voting intention | 1 Comment

The British Election Study 2015: Religious affiliation

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Ben Clements

This post analyses the contemporary social make-up of religious belonging in Britain using data released as part of the latest British Election Study (BES), focusing on the 2015 general election. Two waves of panel data (conducted in, respectively, February-March 2014 … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Research note, Survey news | Tagged British Election Studies, British Election Study 2015, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, social, Survey Data | 5 Comments

Clergy Voices and Other News

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Clergy voices A majority (54%) of Anglican clergy thinks the Church of England should retain its current established status, seemingly without modification, according to the first results from a YouGov survey commissioned by Professor Linda Woodhead of Lancaster University … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged abstinence, alcohol, British Social Attitudes Survey, Church of England, Church Times, clergy, Clive Field, Coup D’Tea, disestablishment, Epworth Review, Evening Standard, freedom of religion, human rights, Iraq, Islamic State, Jon Curtis, Linda Woodhead, London, Methodists, parish system, Populus, Sunday Times, Syria, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov | Leave a comment

Current Voting Intentions and Other News

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Current voting intentions We are almost through the party political conference season for another year, and the 2015 general election campaign seems already to have started, so it is perhaps an appropriate time to review the state of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged armed forces, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, Church in Wales, church membership, Clive Field, ComRes, David Graham, Faith schools, finance, House of Commons Library, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Iraq, Islamic State, ITV News, Jewish identity, Jonathan Rodell, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Lord Ashcroft Polls, Methodism, Methodist Church, Ministry of Defence, National Jewish Student Survey, Populus, Religious Affiliation, Robert Schofield, spirituality, Sunday Times, Syria, The Independent, voting intention, YouGov | 2 Comments

Religion and Attitudes Towards Faith Schools

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Ben Clements

The expansion of faith schools in recent years, as part of a broader parental choice and diversity of provision agenda in state-sector education, has been a prominent and divisive issue, both within religious traditions and between religious and secular lobbies. … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Research note, Survey news, Uncategorized | Tagged British Social Attitudes Survey, education, Faith schools, Religion, Religion and Politics, religious attendance, religious belonging, self-assessed religiosity, Survey Data | Leave a comment

Latest Surveys on Islamic State

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Clive D. Field

With the referendum on Scottish independence now held, polling attention has begun to swing back to the crisis created by the rise of Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. Here we report the studies which have appeared since … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged air strikes, Bradford, Brian Everitt, ComRes, East London, Edgar Jones, ground troops, Independent on Sunday, Ipsos-MORI, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Kamaldeep Bhui, Muslims, Nasir Warfa, Newsweek, PLOS One, Populus, radicalization, Sunday Mirror, Sunday Times, Syria, The Sun, YouGov | Leave a comment

Scottish Independence and Other News

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Scottish independence The referendum on Scottish independence is now behind us (it was held on 18 September 2014), and we know that a majority of residents of Scotland has voted to remain in the United Kingdom. The referendum campaign … Continue reading →

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Trust and Other News

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Trust (1) Public trust in the Church of England is lower than in other non-political national institutions, according to the results of an Ipsos MORI survey for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, which were published on 13 September 2014. … Continue reading →

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Round-Up of Islamic State and Other Surveys

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Islamic State There has been a further round of polling in recent days related to the advances of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, as summarized below, by chronological order of fieldwork. Unless otherwise stated, surveys were … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged British citizenship, ComRes, discrimination, Independent on Sunday, Iraq, Islamic State, Islamism, ITV News, marriages, Muslims, OnePoll, Religious Affiliation, religious institutions, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish Household Survey, Sky News, Sunday Mirror, Sunday Times, Survation, Syria, terrorism, The Independent, trust, YouGov | Leave a comment

More Islamic State Polling and Other News

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Islamic State Further polls (conducted online, unless otherwise stated) have been carried out during the past week to probe public opinion on the escalating crisis brought about by the progress of the Islamic State (IS, formerly the Islamic State … Continue reading →

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