Tag Archives: YouGov

Public attitudes towards women bishops

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Ben Clements

Given important recent developments in the long-running debate on the issue of women bishops in the Church of England, this post provides a brief review of topline and group attitudes using recent data from opinion polls. Several polls on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged Behaving, believing, Belonging, Church of England, ComRes, gender equality, opinion polls, Opinium Research, ordination of women, public debate, religious belonging, Survey Data, women bishops, women clergy, YouGov | Leave a comment

Bible Versus Darwin and Other News

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Bible versus Darwin Given a list of 30 books, and invited to select three which they considered to be most valuable to humanity (as opposed to having read or enjoyed), 37% of the 2,044 adult Britons recently questioned by … Continue reading →

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Huffington Post and Other Polls

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Huffington Post religion poll As part of its new ‘Beyond Belief’ series, The Huffington Post UK commissioned Survation to carry out a short online survey about religion among 2,004 Britons on 31 October and 1 November 2014. Results were … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged alcohol, Archbishop of Canterbury, Ashers Baking Company, atheists, Channel 4 News, child abuse, Church of England, Church Times, clergy, ComRes, confused.com, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, ghosts, Halloween, haunted houses, Huffington Post, Jessica Elgot, Jonathan Chaplin, life after death, Linda Woodhead, morality, OnePoll, Opinium Research. Populus, religion as cause of harm, Religious Affiliation, religious hate crimes, same-sex marriage, self-assessed religiosity, Sunday Times, supernatural, Survation, The Sun, YouGov | Leave a comment

Halloween and Other News

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Halloween Halloween is almost upon us again! It is next Friday (31 October 2014). Strictly speaking, it is All Hallows’ Eve in the Christian calendar, but since the Millennium it has been transformed in the UK into a seasonal … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged Boko Haram, Christians, Conlumino, Halloween, Hubbub, Ipsos Global @dvisor, Ipsos-MORI, Iraq, Islamic State, Islamism, Muslims, Nigeria, OnePoll, Populus, religious beliefs, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! London, supernatural, Syria, Webloyalty, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge | Leave a comment

Anglican Clergy Poll and Other News

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Anglican clergy poll As anticipated in our post of 12 October 2014, the complete results of the YouGov survey of Anglican clergy were published on 23 October. The poll was designed by Professor Linda Woodhead and commissioned on behalf … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Ben Clements, Bettina Schmidt, British Association for the Study of Religions, British Election Study, census of population, church attendance, church growth, Church Heritage Record, Church of England, ChurchCare, clergy, David Voas, DISKUS, English Heritage, Fiona Tweedie, Heritage at Risk Register, Ipsos-MORI, Iraq, Islamic State, Israel, Jewish Leadership Council, Kevin Brice, Linda Woodhead, places of worship, Populus, Religious Affiliation, Religious change, Scotland, Sunday Times, Syria, We Believe in Israel, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov | Leave a comment

Catholic Family and Other News

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Catholic family The Roman Catholic Church’s fortnight-long Extraordinary Synod on the Family ends in Rome today. It has attracted surprisingly little attention in the general (non-Catholic) British media, although its outcomes are now being reported as a victory for … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged atheism, Ben Clements, British Election Study, Byron Creese, census of population, Christian Today, ComRes, David Voas, Deborah Lader, equality, Extraordinary Synod on the Family, hate crimes, Home Office, Independent on Sunday, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, Islamic State, Islamism, jihadists, London, Matt Sheard, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Populus, ransoms, Religious Affiliation, religious and ethnic hatred, Roman Catholic Church, Ruth Gledhill, Scotland, Secularism and Nonreligion, St Paul's Cathedral, Sunday Mirror, The Tablet, The Times, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov | 1 Comment

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

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 →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged abortion, Ben Clements, Bible, Charity Brand Index, Christmas Starts with Christ, Church and State, Church of England, Clive Field, ComRes, David Voas, establishment, Harris Interactive, homosexuality, Iraq, Islamic State, ITV News, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Lord Ashcroft Polls, Populus, Roman Catholics, Scotland, Scottish independence referendum, Sunday Times, Syria, Third Sector Research, YouGov | Leave a comment

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Public attitudes towards women bishops

Bible Versus Darwin and Other News

Huffington Post and Other Polls

Halloween and Other News

Anglican Clergy Poll and Other News

Catholic Family and Other News

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