{"id":1479,"date":"2013-05-13T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2013-05-13T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:00:58","slug":"christianity-in-facts-and-figures-online-reference-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2013\/05\/13\/christianity-in-facts-and-figures-online-reference-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity in facts and figures &#8211; Online Reference Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/01\/wcd_header.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1065 aligncenter\" title=\"World Christian Database\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/01\/wcd_header.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/01\/wcd_header.jpg 775w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/01\/wcd_header-300x39.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Did you know that the the World Christian Database is now available online to University of Edinburgh users? It provides access to comprehensive statistical information on world religions, Christian denominations, and people groups. Use it for research on religious activities, growth rates, religious literature, worker activity, and demographic statistics. Additional secular data is incorporated on population, health, education, and communications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Also, if you previously consulted the UK Christian Handbook, you&#8217;ll find it useful to know that it is now freely available online as the <a title=\"Christian Resources Directory\" href=\"http:\/\/directory.biblesociety.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Resources Directory,\u00a0 <\/a>listing\u00a0 Christian services, agencies, businesses and organisations in the UK.\u00a0 Archived print editions remain available at the <a title=\"Nation Library of Scotland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nls.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Library of Scotland<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/05\/crd_logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1480 aligncenter\" alt=\"Christian Resources Directory\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/05\/crd_logo.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the the World Christian Database is now available online to University of Edinburgh users? It provides access to comprehensive statistical information on world religions, Christian denominations, and people groups. Use it for research on religious activities, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2013\/05\/13\/christianity-in-facts-and-figures-online-reference-resources\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[42,57,138,187,194],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-nR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}