Counting Religion in Britain, February 2025

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 113, February 2025 features twelve short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text (with URLs for sources, where available) can be downloaded from the following link No 113 February 2025

OPINION POLLS

  • Public opinion towards the Church of England: a further YouGov poll
  • Attitudes and worldviews of Gen Z: YouGov poll for The Times
  • Ipsos Valentine’s Day polling: love across the religious divide
  • Importance of teaching religious studies in secondary schools: YouGov tracker
  • Impact of summer 2024 riots on UK Muslim communities: Survation poll

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Snapshot of the musical life of (mostly) the Church of England
  • Community Security Trust’s anti-Semitic incidents report, 2024
  • Tell MAMA’s Islamophobic incidents report, 2024
  • Latest JPR research report: numbers of Jewish children in Jewish schools

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Demographic potential of non-parochial registers: the case of pre-1837 Methodism
  • Historical statistics of the Independent Methodist Connexion
  • Churchgoing in Edwardian England: a checklist of local newspaper censuses

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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2025

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 112, January 2025 features eleven short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 112 January 2025

OPINION POLLS

  • Is ‘God’ making a comeback among the young? OnePoll survey seems to suggest so
  • The world of Gen Z as illuminated by Channel 4 and Craft
  • Pew Global Attitudes Survey, Spring 2024 wave: further releases
  • Latest (2024) wave of the Anti-Defamation League Global 100 Index of Antisemitism
  • Memorialization of the Holocaust: Claims Conference multinational survey
  • Memorialization of the Holocaust: Ipsos national survey
  • Likely causes of human extinction: YouGov restudy

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • United Reformed Church statistics, 2025
  • Is there a Jewish ‘exodus’ from the UK? Not according to JPR

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Methodist historical statistics, eighteenth century to the present
  • Roman Catholic historical statistics: England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland

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Counting Religion in Britain, December 2024

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 111, December 2024 features thirteen short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 111 December 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Likes about Christmas: YouGov poll among British adults
  • Christmas in 1969 and 2024 compared: more of a family than a religious occasion
  • Bishops in the House of Lords: should they stay or should they go?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2023
  • National Secular Society research on the requirement to take GCSE Religious Studies
  • Anti-Semitic incidents in British universities, 2022–24

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Religion and community life in England, 2023/24
  • Enhancing official data collection about Sikhs and Jews as ethnic groups
  • Diversity of the judiciary in England and Wales, 2024

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Brethren in the 1851 religious census of England and Wales
  • Religious life in Wiltshire during the 1860s
  • Local and regional case studies of organized Christianity in Britain since 1914
  • Representation of mosques in the British broadsheet press

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Counting Religion in Britain, November 2024

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 110, November 2024 features nine short articles on fourteen new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 110 November 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Crisis in the Church of England: resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Assisted dying Bill: polling of British public by Focaldata and More in Common
  • Belief in an afterlife, a nation divided into thirds: More in Common poll
  • Ipsos Veracity Index, 2024: trust in professions and groups to tell the truth

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Participation of ethnic minorities in Church of England ministry and leadership
  • Ethnic diaspora congregations in Scotland: Brendan Research report
  • Provision of religious education in primary schools in England and Wales
  • Intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe

PEOPLE NEWS

  • Profile of Fiona Tweedie, church statistician

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Counting Religion in Britain, October 2024

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 109, October 2024 features fourteen short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 109 October 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Reform of the House of Lords: should Church of England bishops keep their seats?
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: sympathies with Israel and Palestinians
  • Observance of, and attitudes to, Halloween in Britain

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Economic value of church provided health and wellbeing activities
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: British Jewish views
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: JPR analysis of anti-Semitism post-7 October
  • Anniversary of 7 October and aftermath: anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents
  • Core Jewish population of Great Britain

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Religious and other hate crimes, 2023–24

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • English and Welsh Catholic attitudes to child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
  • Political, social, economic, and religious perspectives of ethnic minority Britons
  • Longitudinal study of churchgoing in Edinburgh and Leith
  • Religion in English northern industrial towns during the 1950s
  • Paganism in numbers

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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2024

Posted on September 1, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 107, August 2024 features twelve short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 107 August 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Pew Research Center polling updates on religion
  • Church closure poll: Whitestone Insight for National Churches Trust
  • UK general election, 2024: how faith communities actually voted
  • Religion as a source of the current conflict in the Middle East: new YouGov poll
  • Public concerns about religious extremism in the UK: Ipsos and YouGov polling
  • Is the National Health Service treated like a ‘national religion’ in Britain?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES 

  • Public examinations in Religious Studies
  • UK general election, 2024: final briefing from Theos, on religion and climate change
  • JPR report on UK Jewish observance of Shabbat
  • Community Security Trust report on anti-Semitic incidents, January–June 2024
  • Foreign-born Jews resident in the UK: Pew Research Center stands corrected

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Some picks from recent Taylor and Francis academic journals

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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2024

Posted on July 20, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 106, July 2024 features ten short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 106 July 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: where do British public sympathies lie?

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Charitable giving by UK Christians: Stewardship’s Generosity Report, 2024
  • Male and female ministry in the Church of England
  • Scottish Episcopal Church annual report and accounts, 2023
  • Methodist Church statistics for mission, October 2023: preliminary data
  • Presbyterian Church of Wales statistics
  • UK general election, 2024: a clue to the religion of parliamentarians?

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • UK armed forces biannual diversity statistics, April 2024

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Revisiting English urban religion in the 1950s: three northern case studies
  • Church of England ministry in south-west England

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Counting Religion in Britain, June 2024

Posted on June 30, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 105, June 2024 features fourteen short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 105 June 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • UK general election, 2024: Survation/Jewish Chronicle poll of Jewish voting intentions
  • UK general election, 2024: Savanta/Hyphen poll of Muslim voting intentions
  • UK general election, 2024: deselection of David Campanale as a LibDem candidate
  • Attitudes to faith in public life: another Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life poll

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • UK general election, 2024: more briefings from Theos
  • UK general election, 2024: briefings from the Religion Media Centre
  • UK general election, 2024: How might Jewish electors vote?
  • Voice for Justice UK report on The Costs of Keeping the Faith
  • General Synod paper: parlous state of Church of England diocesan finances
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: impact on the UK film and television workforce

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Religious marriages in England and Wales, 2021 and 2022

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Churchgoing in Britain during the fin de siècle
  • Coronavirus chronicles: religious affiliation and Covid-19 vaccine uptake in England

NEW DATASET

  • Release of European Social Survey, round 11 data for the UK

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Counting Religion in Britain, May 2024

Posted on May 25, 2024 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 104, May 2024 features fifteen short articles on new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link No 104 May 2024

OPINION POLLS

  • Attitudes to faith in public life
  • Attitudes to Sunday trading hours in England and Wales
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: where do British public sympathies lie?
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
  • Fall-out from Israel-Hamas conflict: university student opinion

FAITH ORGANIZATION STUDIES

  • Will religion count in the UK and other national elections in 2024?
  • UK evangelical Christians and politics
  • Church of England attendance statistics, 2023: preliminary view
  • Church of Scotland congregational statistics, 2023
  • Collective worship in state schools: teacher attitudes and experiences
  • Further release from the UK National Jewish Identity Survey
  • National Jewish Student Survey, 2024

OFFICIAL STATISTICS

  • Scotland’s census, 2022: religious affiliation data
  • Hate crimes recorded by the police in Scotland, 2022–23

ACADEMIC STUDIES

  • Coronavirus chronicles: giving up on online or offline services during lockdown

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