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...Research the relationship between religion and the state in some other countries with very different cultures than your own, for example you might want to consider Malaysia, India, Japan. Contemporary scholars often use metaphors to describe religion – for an example of this, you may want to read the article "Metaphor and Religion" by Paul-François Tremlett. How does...

...centres offering visitors the chance to relax and enjoy themselves as well as to express their faith and engage in religious rituals. Civil, commercial and religious agencies have long been keen to promote pilgrimage not just to enhance faith but, like Saudi Arabia, to spur local and national economies. In Lourdes, for example, pilgrimage is rooted in the supposed...

...centre of events and, understandably, swamped by their magnitude. It’s apposite that one focus of the attacks was a rock concert. Given that rock and pop are commercialised and transnational cultural forms, we tend not to regard them as particularly fragile. But economic status aside, they are still often subject to hostility from reactionaries and fundamentalists of...

...centred upon the circumstances attending the change in the leadership of the Liberal Party. After the Privy Council on Saturday, Mr and Mrs Gladstone returned with the Ministers from Windsor, and arrived in London shortly before four o'clock, when he at once drove to Downing Street. At Paddington there were considerable groups of persons in waiting, whose salutations the...

...centre of power. Similarly, in Ian Fleming’s novels, Moneypenny “functions as an object of desire, chiefly because she basks in the power that radiates from M”, as UK academics Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott put it in their 1987 book Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero. But Moneypenny is not only desirable – she also, actively, desires. In...