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...student demographic...Scholars have increasingly come to recognise that Religious Studies as a discipline is based on the legacies of a colonial worldview, i.e. that what we have classified as religious beliefs and practices have used criteria drawn from white Anglo-European Protestantism. Several members of the Religious Studies department at The Open University have...

...students writing in English, and although some people talk about Chinese becoming the lingua franca, I don’t think that’s likely to happen for quite some time. I think globalisation will result in people becoming more accepting of differences, of using different connotations, different vocabularies and so on. We don’t own English anymore; that’s quite important....

...become known for their radical novels and poems. Their brilliant imaginations were said to have stemmed from their close relationships as children where they would tell tales and write stories as part of their creative play. Eventually this led to collaborative writing and then the individual works they were able to publish after much difficulty, some of which are among...