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- Dr Jake Scott
The Attitudes to Faith in British Life survey for July 2024 commissioned by The Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life revealed marginal though significant changes from the June report. Attitudes to personal faith, media religious coverage and religious discourses in public life showed the most notable fluctuations. The survey of 2,075 UK adults was conducted by Whitestone Insight, a member of the British Polling Council, between the 26th and 27th of June 2024.
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- Dr Rakib Ehsan
The UK is an ever-diversifying set of nations characterised by growing forms of religious heterogeneity.
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- Esther Krakue
They say it takes a village to raise a child. An entire ecosystem of parents, grandparents, siblings, uncles, aunties, teachers, neighbours and friends to create the dynamics necessary to help children interact, communicate and build relationships.
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- Amanda Murjan
Between the 31st of May and the 2nd of June 2024, The Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life commissioned Whitestone Insight to conduct an online poll of 2,396 UK adults. The survey was part of a broader project designed through regular tracking to show how faith and religion influence life in the UK over time.
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- Charlotte Littlewood
Our new research would suggest so.
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- Amanda Murjan
How my experience of cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety deepened my faith.
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- Rania Mohiuddin-Agir
How often is it that a person of faith’s mental health struggles are dismissed as a lack of ‘connection’ to God? Is the singular remedy to mental health challenges simply ‘praying’?
Islam would argue otherwise.
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- Amanda Murjan
Sitting somewhere behind the tension-filled headlines of public conversations on faith and religion is a lived experience of multi-faith life in the UK that speaks to a hidden positivity and optimism.
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- Dr Jake Scott
On the 5th March 2024, the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life published our flagship report, exploring ‘The social contribution of British Muslims’.
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- Dr Rakib Ehsan
With many British Muslims now observing the holy month of Ramadan, the latest report published by IIFL on their attitudes towards the UK provided much reason to be positive and optimistic over the future of modern Britain.