While collecting up various links and articles relating to spirituality in New Zealand I came across these from the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. The first is a media release about some research they commissioned back in 2002-2003 about people’s perception of both church and spirituality. The second is a magazine piece that gives more details (and diagrams) of that research.

I’m jotting the links down here so I don’t lose them, while I write up a piece of a course relating to the perceived split between spirituality and religion in some people’s eyes.

• Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand // Media: Spirituality Among NZers (20 March 2003)
• Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand // Media: Outside – Looking In; Researching the perceptions of non-churchgoers – from the Feb 2003 issue of sPanz.

Anyone know if the Anglicans, Catholics or Baptists have something similar publicly available?

Related link: Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand // The spirituality buzz by Kevin Ward. (A summary of sorts of: Ward, Kevin. “Is New Zealand’s future churchless?”, Stimulus 12/2 (2004), 2-11. Available as a PDF here)