‘Religion’ in the 2001 Census for England and Wales

Southworth, Joanna R.

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“…It was the first time since the census began that questions about people's religious identity were asked in England, Wales and Scotland. 4 The inclusion of a religious question on the 2001 census was therefore a political act, resulting from consultation and advice from several religious groups affiliated as the Religious Affiliation Sub-Group (Francis 2003;Weller 2004;Southworth 2005). I suggest that the overwhelming 'Christian' response to the census question was also a political act, best understood as performative, nominalist Christianity.…”

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Propositions and performativity: Relocating belief to the social

Day

2010

Culture and Religion

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Divergent disciplinary approaches are traced to effect an inter-disciplinary understanding of how scholars in both sociology and anthropology frame their discussions about belief. A preliminary 'genealogy of belief' is proposed, tracing epistemological and methodological approaches over the last 200 years showing how some debates presume individual and intellectualist orientations to belief while others favour the collective and emotional. Presenting recent empirical evidence from fieldwork in the UK, the author suggests a 'performative' understanding of belief arising from and shaped by social relations.

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Section: Social Contextmentioning

confidence: 97%

Propositions and performativity: Relocating belief to the social

Day

2010

Culture and Religion

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“…National systems of demographic data collection outside Israel, both Census and vital registration systems, do not necessarily register information on religious/ethnic affiliation for Jews (Ritterbrand et al 1988, DellaPergola 2002a, 2002b, Southworth 2005. Where national systems of data collection provide insufficient information, Jewish community systems of data collection sometimes 'fill in' the lacking data.…”

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“…Additionally, the attitude of Jewish communities to the collection of such data is not unambiguous, being complicated by the fear of abuse of administrative sources (for further details see Graham et al 2007; Graham and Waterman 2005;Ritterband et al 1988;Seltzer 1998;Southworth 2005). As a result, there is not a single Jewish Diaspora community for which time trends in mortality can be studied for a sufficiently long time (Staetsky and Hinde 2008).…”

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Mortality of British Jews at the Turn of the 20th Century in a Comparative Perspective

Staetsky

2011

Eur J Population

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This paper presents analysis of mortality data of British Jews. Not much was known about mortality of British Jews until recently. Recent availability of mortality data of British Jews represents a remarkable development in Jewish demography. The study reported in this paper employs multiple comparisons of mortality schedules and places the discussion of findings within the larger analytical framework offered by the existing tradition of research into Jewish mortality across the world. This paper addresses three Cet article analyse des données de mortalité de britanniques de religion juive. La mortalité de cette population était peu connue jusqu'ici, mais la récente mise à disposition de données permet un développement considérable dans le domaine de la démographie juive. Cette étude se base sur diverses comparaisons de calendriers de mortalité et s'inscrit dans le cadre plus large de la tradition de recherche autour de la mortalité des juifs dans le monde. Trois questions empiriques sont traitées dans cet article :(1) la mortalité des britanniques de religion juive est-elle comparable à celle de la population britannique en général, et à celle de différents sous-groupes de cette population ? (2) comment la mortalité des britanniques de religion juive se classe-t-elle par rapport aux calendriers d'âge au décès observés dans les pays développés ? (3) la mortalité des britanniques de religion juive est-elle comparable à la mortalité des Israéliens de religion juive ? L'analyse se conclut avec une discussion des résultats au regard d'autres informations disponibles dans la littérature sur la mortalité des juifs. Plus spécifiquement, le concept de modèle de mortalité juive et sa pertinence dans le contexte de la démographie britannique juive sont discutés.

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“…The story of how this happened has been told by several participants (Aspinall 2000;Dixie 1998;Fane 1999b;Francis 2003;Kosmin 1998Kosmin , 1999Sherif 2011;Southworth 1998Southworth , 2001Southworth , 2005Weller 2004;Weller and Andrews 1998). By the mid-1990s there was a developing groundswell of support for including religion in the census.…”

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Measuring religious affiliation in Great Britain: the 2011 census in historical and methodological context

Field

2014

Religion

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The British religious census of 2011 is located in its broader historical and methodological context. The principal developments in the measurement of religious affiliation (proxy-assigned or self-assigned) in Britain are traced from the Reformation to the present day, charting the relative contribution of the Churches, the State and empirical social science. The key statistics which have emerged from their respective efforts are summarised, with nominal religious affiliation universal until the time of the French Revolution and preponderant until as late as the 1980s. For recent decades, when the profession of faith has been rejected by large numbers of Britons, particular attention is paid to the variant results from different question-wording. Depending upon what is asked, the proportion of the population currently making sense of their lives without asserting a confessional religious identity ranges from onequarter to one-half. The difficulties of trying to construct a religious barometer through a single, unitary indicator are thus illuminated.

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‘Religion’ in the 2001 Census for England and Wales

Cited by 19 publications

References 16 publications

Propositions and performativity: Relocating belief to the social

Propositions and performativity: Relocating belief to the social

Mortality of British Jews at the Turn of the 20th Century in a Comparative Perspective

Measuring religious affiliation in Great Britain: the 2011 census in historical and methodological context

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