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...et al., 2012). Some scholars claim that religion is becoming more private or privatised as a result of our consumer society, in which the individual practitioner is encouraged to customise their spiritual experience by picking and mixing elements that make sense to them, rather than follow a religious path or belong to one religious community. So, what kind of religious...

...motivation of the conservationists’ (p. 83). Elliot has set up the problem for you. Next week, you will look at his take on the solution...Week 1: Originals and copies: Summary of Week 1 - This week you have looked at the issue of originals or copies. In particular, if you have two things that are perceptually indistinguishable, should they be valued differently just...

...motivation: will, intention, purpose, desire, choice, decision, trying, action (in the sense of doing something, such as walking or waving). Perception seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting, kinaesthesia (the sense of bodily motion, as when we know our legs or fingers or tongue are moving just by feeling them move ‘from the inside’), proprioception (the sense...

...et al., 2003, p. 85; Pugh, 2009, p. 229). On the surface, these statistics suggest that, if anything, the cinema craze slowed down during the interwar years. But what they don’t tell us is that cinema construction had changed: in 1912 the average cinema had 600 seats; by the late 1920s and 1930s, new cinemas with 2–3,000 seats were being built. We might expect that...

...motivation on the part of those arranging the marriage. The image caption reinforces the idea of an arranged marriage and raises concerns for the future of the union. Figure 1 thus hints that the political union between Great Britain and Ireland did not result from a great ‘love’ between the two kingdoms, and the following subsection will consider why this was the...

...motivated and interested. So you have to move away just to keep yourself entertained, keep yourself fired up about it in some kind of way. Narrator Now you’ll hear Abdulrazak Gurnah and Louis de Bernie`res describe two very different genres – the realist novel, dealing with contemporary social issues, and the magic realist novel. Abdulrazak Gurnah Well, fiction quite...