Category Archives: United Kingdom

Non-religious young people in Britain

Posted on April 15, 2011 by

Dr. Rebecca Catto (Lancaster University) has published her initial reflections on a small-sale survey of non-religious young people on the guardian online. ‘Beyond Grayling, Dawkins and Hitchens, a new kind of British atheism‘  reports on a one year project that … Continue reading →

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Corruption in Europe

Posted on October 28, 2010 by

Transparency International (TI) published its annual report on corruption and Greece now ranks as the most corrupt member state of the EU, taking the spotlight off Romania and Bulgaria which have moved slightly up the TI ‘corruption index’ to just … Continue reading →

Posted in europe, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom | 3 Comments

The old rugged cross: ban or cherish?

Posted on September 13, 2010 by

We’re just working on the October edition of Vista, our quarterly research bulletin. The theme is secularisation and we’ve been researching how the personal or institutional display of a crucifix is increasingly a focus for social policy legislators. It may … Continue reading →

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The British public on Benedict's social teaching

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

Theos reports today on the findings of a ComRes poll of 2,003 British adults in connection with the visit of the Pope. Strikingly, despite popular disapproval about paying for his visit, a majority of the British public was in favour … Continue reading →

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Cross and Lotus – Buddhism in the UK

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

There may be as many as 46,000 ‘converts’ to Buddhism from Roman Catholic and Anglican backgrounds in the UK. This estimate is based on figures obtained from the British Religion in Numbers website, managed by David Voas and other members … Continue reading →

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How important is religion to you?

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

At the end of August, Gallup released news of a 2009 survey examining the importance of religion for the population of 114 countries, based on telephone and face-to-face interviews. The global average for those who said that religion was important … Continue reading →

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Christian Research reverses predictions of numerical decline for UK churches

Posted on September 3, 2010 by

New data released by Christian Research today suggests that the decline in churchgoing has stabilised and that attendance figures have actually been more or less static for the last five years. This reverses a series of predictions made during the … Continue reading →

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