Characteristics of benefices in the Church in Wales, and characteristics, attitudes and social values of its clergy and laity (1824)

Type of Data: Characteristics of benefices in the Church in Wales, and characteristics, attitudes and social values of its clergy and laity (1824)

Faith Community: Christianity (Church in Wales)

Date: 1989 (benefices and clergy), 1991 (laity)

Geography: Wales

Sample Size: 549 benefices (91% response), 687 clergy, 803 laity

Population: Benefices, clergy and churchgoing laity of the Church in Wales

Keywords: Baptism, benefices, benefits, Bible, causes for hope or despair, Church, church attendance, churchgoing, Church in Wales, clergy, communicants, community service, confirmation, Easter, ecumenism, funerals, income, job satisfaction, lay workers, ministry

Collection Method: Self-completion questionnaire

Collection Agency: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Wales, Swansea

Sponsor: Archbishop of Wales

Published Source:

Christopher Charles Harris, The Archbishop's State of the Church Study: Report on Phase One, Being the Responses of Deaneries and Parishes Throughout the Province, Penarth: Church in Wales Publications, 1991

Christopher Charles Harris, The Archbishop's State of the Church Study, Phase Two: Report of the Survey of the Laity, Penarth: Church in Wales Publications, 1993

Christopher Charles Harris, The Archbishop's State of the Church Study: Final Report to the Governing Body, Penarth: Church in Wales Publications, 1993

Christopher Charles Harris and Richard Startup, 'Lay Characteristics and Religious Attitudes in the Church in Wales', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 13, No. 8, 1993, pp. 50-66

Christopher Charles Harris and Richard Startup, 'The Church in Wales: A Neglected Welsh Institution', Contemporary Wales, Vol. 7, 1995, pp. 97-116

Christopher Charles Harris and Richard Startup, 'Clergy Activities and Attitudes in the Church in Wales', Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 7, 1996, pp. 109-26

Richard Startup and Christopher Charles Harris, 'Elements of Religious Belief and Social Values Among the Laity of the Church in Wales', Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 12, 1997, pp. 215-28

Christopher Charles Harris and Richard Startup, The Church in Wales: The Sociology of a Traditional Institution, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999

BRIN ID: 1824

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Posted by: Clive D. Field

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