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Finnish Views on Lutheranism 2017
This study charted Finnish views on Lutheranism. First, the respondents were presented with a variety of statements concerning religion and they were asked to evaluate to what extent these statements depicted characteristic features of Lutheranism. After this, as the Lutheran Church celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, the respondents were asked...
Professional Identity and Religious Beliefs of Children's Instructor Students 2014
The survey charted the professional motivation, identity and religiosity of Children's Instructor students in Christian Institutes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland. This dataset is based on the first collection wave in a cohort study that followed students studying for an upper secondary qualification in Child Care, Education and Family Welfare as they...
Professional Identity and Religious Beliefs of Children's Instructor Students 2017
The survey charted the professional motivation, identity and religiosity of Children's Instructor students in Christian Institutes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland. This dataset is based on the third collection wave in a cohort study that followed students studying for an upper secondary qualification in Child Care, Education and Family Welfare as they...
Professional Identity and Religious Beliefs of Children's Instructor Students 2016
The survey charted the professional motivation, identity and religiosity of Children's Instructor students in Christian Institutes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland. This dataset is based on the second collection wave in a cohort study that followed students studying for an upper secondary qualification in Child Care, Education and Family Welfare as they...
Religiosity of Young Adults in the Capital Area of Finland 2004
The study charted the religious behaviour of people aged 20-39 and their attitudes towards religion. The significance of different people, things and activities in the respondents' lives were investigated (e.g. family, work, religion) as well as happiness with life in general. The respondents were presented a number of statements relating to beliefs, spirituality and...
Church Monitor 2004
The survey focused on Finnish perceptions of paranormal phenomena, spirituality and the importance of different congregational activities. The respondents were also asked whether they belonged to any revivalist movements operating within the Evangelic Lutheran Church of Finland. The survey studied perceptions of supernatural phenomena and beliefs with attitudinal statements...
Religious Fundamentalism and Radicalization Survey
The "Religious Fundamentalism and Radicalization Survey (RFRS)" is a large-scale cross-sectional survey conducted among Muslims, Christians, Jews, and non-believers in Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Kenya, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Turkey, and the USA. The survey is designed specifically to test hypotheses related to determinants of religious radicalization. It...
Prayer Study 1998
The Prayer Study surveyed prayer habits and beliefs associated with praying in Finland. The respondents were asked how often they prayed for health, life-companion, world peace, God's grace, among others. In addition, the frequency of praying for different people and things (e.g. relatives, the unemployed, nature, decision-makers, other churches) was studied. Types of prayer...
Life Values 1997
The survey studied the respondents' values. Views were probed on tax avoidance, death penalty, suicide, homosexuality, abortion, social security benefits, nepotism, euthanasia, control over own life, immigrants, voluntary work, and political parties. The respondents were also asked on what basis they decide what is right and what is wrong. A number of questions dealt with...
English Church Census, 1989
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The English Church Census, 1989 was carried out on the 15th October 1989 by MARC Europe (this research body ceased to exist and Christian Research was formed out of it). The main aim of the survey was to get details of church attendance in England by denomination, churchmanship, county and environment....
Religion, Dynasty and Patronage in Rome, c.440-840
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Rome, c.440-c.840 aims to offer a new approach to the social history of Christianity in Europe in the formative period from the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire to the rise of the Carolingians. By compiling a relational database of patronage (both...
Reaching and Keeping Teenagers : 15-19 Year Olds, 1992
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The 1989 English Church Census (SN:2842) found there had been a drastic drop in those, aged 15-19, attending the English church in the 1980's. The aim was to discover why they had left and what, if anything, could be done about it. A key finding was the importance of having people in church who...
Democracy in Fishport, 1969-1971
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to investigate political life in Peterhead.Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Political activity and images of political parties; class conflict; religion.
Background Variables
Sex, age, tenancy, religion, social class and voting allegiance; whether belonged to the...
Conventional Religion and Common Religion in Leeds, 1982
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this study was to investigate the religious practice, experience and belief in the northern industrial city of Leeds. Particular emphasis was placed on the religiousness which falls outside the normal scope of Christian denominations, including `common religion', and this was studied both in...
Faithful judgements interviews: the role of religion in laypeople's ethical evaluations of new reproductive and genetic technologies
A total of 18 interviews with people who self-identify as religious, from Christian and Muslim faith groups, who have had personal experience of deciding whether or not to use one of the new reproductive and genetic technologies. The interviews explore the narrative of their experience, their faith lives, the impact of the experience on their faith and relationship with...
Survey experiment of Christians in the Netherlands and Denmark
The survey experiment data was collected by the polling company YouGov Denmark, who have access to large panels of respondents in each of the two countries. 1000 respondents in each country who identified as Christian, Protestant or Catholic when asked what religion, if any, they belong to in a screening question were entered into the full questionnaire. YouGov collects...
Religious Politics and Political Religion: Christian Nationalism in Contemporary Zambia, 2017-2020
This project explored the efforts of Chrsitian nationalist activists and government officials to "actualize" the constitutional declaration that Zambia is a "Christian nation." The central component of the data are field notes from four months of participant-observation in Zambia’s government Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs. In addition to this material...
Life on the Breadline National Church Leader Interviews, 2019-2020
Interview questions and interview transcripts of interviews with the national leaders from different Christian denominations in the UK. The interviews address contemporary poverty in the UK - Its causes and the response of different UK Churches.
The interviews reflect a range of different factors - the size of different denominations, the links of denominations to the...
Survey of Active Support for a Moral Crusade, 1976
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To obtain a sociographic picture of persons attending the rally in Trafalgar Square, London, on 25th September, 1976, of the Nationwide Festival of Light, and to examine hypotheses relating to religious movements.Main Topics:Variables
Age, sex, occupation, religious affiliation, how heard about the rally,...
Diaconia Barometer 2018
Diaconia Barometers chart Finnish diaconal workers' experiences of their work and views of current topics in diaconia. The topics of the 2018 survey included the communications and engagement of diaconal work, everyday diaconal work and its challenges, and the Christian orientation of diaconal workers. The survey was funded by the Church Research Institute. The respondents...
Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland 2007-2016
The data contain information about persons who have resigned from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church via web service Eroakirkosta.fi in 2007-2016. Variables included in the data are date of resignation, type of resignation announcement (e-mail, paper form, direct announcement via web form), municipality of residence, gender, age at the...
Popular Music Divine Services Survey 2013-2014
The study charted the motives and experiences of people attending musical events of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. The study was funded by the Church Research Institute and Åbo Akademi University. The respondents were first asked which event they attended, what their reasons for attending were, how many times they had attended before and where they had heard...
Finnish Views on Lutheranism 2016
This study charted Finnish views on Lutheranism. First, the respondents were presented with a variety of statements concerning religion and they were asked to evaluate to what extent these statements depicted characteristic features of Lutheranism. The study surveyed whether the respondents were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or some other religious...
Sociaal-culturele ontwikkelingen in Nederland, 2000 - SOCON 2000
Social relevance of Christian religion in the Netherlands.Social characteristics / intimate relationships / division of care and household work / education / employment / social integration / intra-generational occupational mobility / intergenerational educational and occupational mobility / educational and occupational homogamy / traditional achievement values / traditional...
Gallup Ecclesiastica 2003
The survey contained questions about church and religion. The respondents were asked whether they were members of a church or other religious community, and whether they were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. They were asked to estimate how significant the various reasons for being a member of the church were to them, and whether they had ever thought...
Church Monitor 2007
The survey studied Finnish opinion on paranormal phenomena, spirituality and religions. Other main themes included religious behaviour, membership in a church or a religious community, and possible reasons for leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. First, the respondents were asked whether there is truth in none, one or all religions. A number of questions...
Trans-national Database and Atlas of Saints' Cults, c.700-2000
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Trans-national Database and Atlas of Saints' Cults aims to establish a parish-by-parish, commune-by-commune inventory of religious devotion in Europe and beyond. Evidence of cults saintly, angelic and divine is built up from documentation and other sources, and centres on the dedications of churches...
Foxe's Book of Martyrs Variorum Edition
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.John Foxe (1517-87) was one of the most influential writers of the English Reformation. In the forty years between 1547 and his death, he produced some forty works in English and Latin. However, both in his lifetime and since then, he has been principally known for only one of them, The Acts and Monuments...
Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2004
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (NILT) series began in 1998, and was the successor to the previous Northern Ireland Social Attitudes series, which was discontinued in 1996.The main aims of the NILT series are:
to monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern...
Ethnicity, Identity and Social Relations in Prison, 2006-2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection.
The project examined individual and collective identities in prisons. In particular, it focused on how ethnic and masculine identities have a bearing on prisoners' social relationships. The study had three main aims:to examine the role of ethnic identities in...