Notes for students

Collective Identity

  • ‘Collective identity refers to the shared definition of a group that derives from its members’ common interests, experiences solidarities. It is neither fixed nor innate, but rather emerges through struggle as different political actors, including the movement, interact and react to each other.’
  • Remember 75% on present contemporary texts i.e. within the last 5 years, and the other 25% on past and future…
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Ayer ‘God Talk is evidently nonsense’ – Paragraphs 4 and 5 Text and questions

“It is not within the scope of this enquiry to enter more deeply into the causes of religious feeling, or to discuss the probability of the continuance of religious belief. We are concerned only to answer those questions which arise out of our discussion of the possibility of religious knowledge. The point which we wish to establish is that there cannot be any transcendent truths of religion. For the sentences which the theist uses to express such ‘truths’ are not literally significant.
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