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...social issues...Census stories: Bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes: 1 What can the census tell us about religion? - Before you start thinking through the course's key questions in more depth, watch this short film explaining how the census data can help us understand religious identity in Milton Keynes: NARRATOR Are we getting less religious? Every ten years in...

...social principles in behalf of the Man rather than the Master, and we have not yet surmounted all the difficulties or dangers of the experiment. It is droll how, in a tolerably well-meaning world like this, any sort of contempt becomes inclusive, and a whole population suffers for the vice, or it may be the virtue, of a very small majority, or a very powerful minority....

...social reformer who wrote about his first balloon experience for the Illustrated London News in 1852, drew heavily on this new vocabulary: And here began that peculiar panoramic effect which is the distinguishing feature of a view from a balloon, and which arises from the utter absence of all sense of motion in the machine itself. The earth appeared literally to consist...

...social, economic, and so on. This is the approach taken in the OpenLearn course Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes, created with Religious Studies staff at the OU, which is also free on OpenLearn. We can start with particular concepts we tend to associate with religion, and then examine these from a variety of perspectives. This is the approach...