Useful Websites
AHRC and ESRC Religion and Society Programme
www.religionandsociety.org.uk
The Religion and Society Research Programme is a collaborative venture between the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council. Together these UK government-funded research councils have contributed £12m to fund research of the highest quality on the interrelationships between religion and society. The Programme started in January 2007 and finishes in December 2012.
The website aims to introduce and explain the Programme, promote the research and activities of award holders, help to disseminate their findings, and contribute to the study and understanding of the interrelationships between religion and society more broadly.
British Religion in Numbers
www.brin.ac.uk
British Religion in Numbers is an online religious data resource hosted by the University of Manchester, at the Institute for Social Change (www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/socialchange/).
It intends to draw religious data sources together, explain how data can be used, and present some examples intuitively to a wide audience.
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
www.pewforum.org
The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, launched in 2001, seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.
The Pew Forum conducts surveys, demographic analyses and other social science research on important aspects of religion and public life in the US and around the world. It also provides a neutral venue for discussions of timely issues through roundtables and briefings.
Radicalisation Research
www.radicalisationresearch.org
Radicalisation Research aims to gather high-quality academic research on radicalization and make it easily accessible for policymakers, journalists and anyone else whose work deals with this area.
Religions in the Modern World
https://www.routledge.com/Religions-in-the-Modern-World-Traditions-and-Transformations/Woodhead-Partridge-Kawanami/p/book/9780415458917
The companion website for Religions in the Modern World. Comprehensive in its coverage, this completely revised and updated second edition considers the history and modern practices of the world's main religious traditions. It analyzes trends in the manifestation of religion in the modern world, from secularization to the rise of new spiritualities, and is at the cutting edge of developments in the study of religion.
Research Methods For The Study of Religion
www.kent.ac.uk/religionmethods/
Designed in conjunction with leading researchers in the study of religion, this site aims to provide resources to support methodological training in this field. The project forms part of the wider methods programme at the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at the University of Kent (www.kent.ac.uk/secl/researchcentres/crcs/).
Hindu Youth Research Project
http://ochs.org.uk/sites/all/files/hindu-youth-research-project.pdf
Download the booklet of the Hindu Youth Research Project conducted in 200, giving more background and information about Hindu young people in Britain.
See the entry in Religion and Change in Modern Britain on Hinduism.
Multi-Faith Spaces
www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/architecture/research/mfs/
Access videos of Ralf Brand and other members of his team, images and more about the Multi-Faith Spaces project, which formed the basis for the case study in Religion and Change in Modern Britain.