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Village, A. and Francis, Leslie J. (2021) Churches and faith : attitude towards church buildings during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown among churchgoers in England. Ecclesial Practices, 8 (2). pp. 216-232. doi:10.1163/22144471-bja10025
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-bja10025
Abstract
Attitude toward church buildings was assessed among a sample of 6,476 churchgoers in England during the first covid-19 pandemic lockdown in 2020. The six-item Scale of Attitude toward Church Buildings (sacb) assessed a range of aspects of attitude that included the importance of buildings for Christian faith generally, and buildings as central to the expression of Christian faith. Anglo-Catholics and Roman Catholics showed similar positive attitude towards buildings, Anglican Evangelicals showed a less positive attitude on average that was similar to those from Free-Churches, while Broad-Church Anglican attitude lay between these two extremes. Younger people had a more positive attitude than older people, especially among Catholics. On average, men had more a positive attitude than women, and lay people a more positive attitude than clergy. These findings suggest that the significance of buildings varies among traditions in ways that may still reflect historical issues of the Reformation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Ecclesial Practices | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Brill | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2214-4463 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 8 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 216-232 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1163/22144471-bja10025 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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