GMP God, money, and politics

Why do we have the attitudes we do towards blindness, touch and blind people? Can our attitudes change with our culture? Have these attitudes always been the same, or have they been adapted to suit the purposes of institutions and intellectual beliefs? God, Money and Politics addresses these questions in the context of England and the English. It examines how the nature of attitudes has changed radically from the beginning of the Enlightenment to integration in education. It also looks at the influences on these attitudes from the greater culture of academia and philanthropy. In doing so this book describes how these beliefs have been manipulated by the unrelated need to:

• impose a Christian morality and understand God

• reduce spending and produce capital

• gain and retain political power