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Secularizing Selfhood and Other News

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Secularizing selfhood I recently gave a presentation at the Rethinking Modern British Studies conference at the University of Birmingham, which was loosely devoted to an exploration of themes contained in a previous working paper from the Modern British Studies … Continue reading →

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Mid-Year Round-Up

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Immigration and the religious landscape Were it not for immigration, the speed of secularization in England and Wales might have been even faster. That is one gloss that could be put on a report from the Office for National … Continue reading →

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Religious Voting Intentions and Other News

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Religious voting intentions Two large-scale online polls were released last week containing breaks of voting intentions by religious affiliation. There will naturally be heightened interest in these as we are now less than two months away from a general … Continue reading →

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Church Buildings and Other News

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Church buildings Churchgoing may be a distinctly minority activity in contemporary Britain, but as many as 45% of the population claim to have visited a church or chapel during the past year for either religious or non-religious purposes, rising … Continue reading →

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Jesus Test and Other News

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Clive D. Field

The Jesus test Jesus Christ is not often dragged into the contemporary British political arena, but, when He is, people tend to ask what He would do or think about a current situation (or, in a few cases, even … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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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Islamic State and Other News

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Islamic State According to opinion polling published in the past week, the British public is becoming uneasy about the advances being made by the armed forces of the Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS) in northern Iraq, its … Continue reading →

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Religious Self-Identification and Other News

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Religious self-identification The current issue of Religion (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2014) is a special theme issue on ‘Making Sense of Surveys and Censuses: Issues in Religious Self-Identification’, guest-edited by Abby Day and Lois Lee. It contains a number … Continue reading →

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Mid-Year Round-Up

Religious Voting Intentions and Other News

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Scottish Independence and Other News

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