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The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...Open University, explores African-Caribbean traditions and religions in this article...Transcript African and African-Caribbean religions and the issue of stigmatisation [George Baxter, The Reverend Robert Moffat, 1 April 1843] The Reverend Robert Moffat by George Baxter (1843) Historically, African traditional religions, and consequently African-Caribbean religions, have...
English Literature, Racism and Rehabilitation
History & The Arts

English Literature, Racism and Rehabilitation

...open to question: the assumption that those who hold violently racist views might be rehabilitated by reading works of English literature. Most readers of literature in English would like to think that the process of reading improves or enriches them, and a common societal assumption is that reading is an intangible good: we encourage children to read on the grounds that...
The art of performing under pressure
Health, Sports & Psychology

The art of performing under pressure

...Open, or Jana Novotna’s Wimbledon tears in 1993. One man who could have helped all three athletes is Dave Alred OBE, the rugby union kicking coach whose methods helped Johnny Wilkinson kick England to World Cup success in 2003. Six years later, he worked with golfers. As part of the research for my book Twelve Yards: The Art and Psychology of the Perfect Penalty, I sat...
What do safe drinking guidelines mean?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do safe drinking guidelines mean?

...open way, so they can make informed choices. This admirable aim of treating the public as adults capable of making up their own minds seems in stark contrast with the authoritarian tone of publicity from the Department of Health, which baldly says “Men should not drink more than 14 units of alcohol each week, the same as women”. Neither the press release nor the...
Eid al-Adha
History & The Arts

Eid al-Adha

...Open University's Religious Studies qualifications. Eid al-Adha means feast or festival of the sacrifice. It is also known as Eid al-Kabir (the great feast) and by other names in different countries, such as Qurban Bayrami in Türkiye. It begins on the tenth day of Dhu al-Hijja, the last month of the Muslim calendar, and can last up to four days, and because this calendar...
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London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...open rather than bounded, hospitable rather than excluding, as ever-changing rather than eternal. And nothing that follows is meant to gainsay that. What I should like to explore about this imagination of place held by so many Londoners, however, is how it might be broadened out. First of all this is an internal, indeed internalised, view of the city. It is about...
Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...open. At the same time, they are still constrained and restricted by gender roles and expectations – particularly by school structures (Neary, 2021; Bragg et al., 2018). A society that is more accepting of trans and non-binary lives is open to wider possibilities for all children. This article has focused on treatment for gender dysphoria – the deep feeling that your...
Voters might not love Europe - but that doesn't mean they'll leave
Society, Politics & Law

Voters might not love Europe - but that doesn't mean they'll leave

...course, is precisely the sentiment to which Cameron has been trying to appeal through his renegotiation. Another 22% said that Britain should leave the EU. If we put the two groups together, this means that nearly two-thirds of voters (65%) can be regarded as at least to some extent sceptical about Europe. This scepticism expresses itself in a wish to curb much of the...