Nation Anderson in his book, "Imagined communities," goes on to try to define the impossible by describing nation as an "imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign (Anderson 1991: 6)." ... Globalisation: The exponential growth of human interconnectedness that is globalisation, in my view, can be separated into three distinct waves and the totality of the three waves has made the world what it is today; a complex mixture of nations bound by global structures and frameworks, slowly combining together as a whole. ... In 1945 the UN, formerly ...

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Comparing and contrasting Marx" belief on religion as a social opium, along with Emile Durkheim and Max Weber's understanding and account of religion within society. How do we account for religion - its origin, its development, and even its persistence in modern society? This is a question, which has occupied many people in a variety of fields for quite a long time. At one point, the answers were framed in purely theological and religious terms, assuming the truth of Christian revelations and proceeding from there. But through the 18th and 19th centuries, a more "naturalistic" appr...

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