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Visualising Religious Switching, Sticking and Leaving
David Voas last week sent me a link to this fascinating chart, illustrating data collected by Pew on religious background, current affiliation and religious switching in the US. I have developed a...
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Muslims in Britain
Muslims in Britain: An Introduction is a long-awaited new book by Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, Cardiff University (Cambridge University Press, 2010,...
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Places of Worship in England and Wales, 1999-2009
We have spent a little time compiling data on registered places of worship in England and Wales from 1999-2009 and are making a note here on the data, and the caveats you need to bear in mind before...
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Church Attendance in England, 1980-2005
As stated earlier, I am selecting some interesting data tables from the seven print editions of Religious Trends, published 1998-2008 by Christian Research and compiled and edited by Peter Brierley,...
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Developing BRIN
Those visiting the site regularly will notice that this weekend, and over the next few days, the site is being rebuilt. We are migrating the content to the WordPress platform, which has been powering...
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Anglicans and Attitudes towards Gay Marriage
In a previous post I looked at the long-term attitudes of religious groups in Britain towards the acceptance of same sex relations, showing a clear liberalisation of public opinion in recent decades....
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Census 2011 – Any other religion?
In a world of tick-boxes, write-in responses are always fascinating. The ‘Any other religion’ line on the census form is an invitation to self-expression that was accepted by hundreds of thousands of...
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Is being Christian important for being British?
The most recent BRIN post presented across-time data on public opinion looking at (i) whether Britain is a Christian country and (ii) whether Britain should be a Christian country. Another perspective...
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Religion and Attitudes Towards Faith Schools
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...
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Exploring Religious Data in the British Social Attitudes 2014 Survey
The latest British Social Attitudes 2014 survey has recently been released via the UKDS, which holds all of the other surveys in the BSA series (as well as the data having being added to the online...
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