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Volume 121 Issue 6 November/December 2006

Editorial: Bleaker still and bleaker?
What do they mean by 'post-secular'?

Cover Stories

Future Perfect: the transhumanist quest to defeat death
Transhumanists would like to cheat death and redesign genes. But Anita Silvers is not sure that would be wise

Regulars

End Game: Deaf becomes him
You'll have to speak up for Laurie Taylor
Diary: Putting on the God helmet
Playright and director Mick Gordon describes how he went about creating religious voices for his new play

Features

Moral maze
Platitudes and peacekeepers are not enough for Darfur, argues Stephen Eric Bronner
Slapstick and pratfalls: Laurie Taylor interviews John Mortimer
John Mortimer tells Laurie Taylor why old age is a farce
Peace Warriors
Ron Dudai meets the men of violence who have changed their minds
Ripped from their lives
When Roosevelt ordered the relocation of Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor, Dorothea Lang was commissioned to document their removal. Linda Gordon unearths the hidden portraits of a people dispossessed
Bertrand Russell in Busota
Caspar Melville introduces our appeal to help secular education in Uganda
Heaven scent?
As the long awaited film version of Patrick Süskind's celebrated novel is released in the UK, Sally Feldman sniffs out the sacred and profane promise of perfume
What’s an infidel?
Jonathan Rée consults the latest humanist dictionary

Columns

News hounded: A decade of al-Jazeera
Naomi Sakr looks at 10 years of al-Jazeera
Thinker: David Hume
Julian Baggini celebrates the pragmatic genius of David Hume
Kids united
Northern Ireland's integrated education movement holds lessons for the faith school debate, says Gary Kent
Infantile disorder
Michael Bywater won't be joining the new atheists

Book Reviews

Debating Humanism by Dolan Cummings (eds)
Nick Cohen reads between the lines
The Many Faces of God: Science's 400-Year Quest for Images of the Divine by Jeremy Campbell
Michael Binyon seeks the face of God
The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Geroges Bataille
Daniel Miller says it's all just so surreal
Non-Violence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
AC Grayling explores the history of non-violence
Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi with Leonardo de Benedetti
Stan Cohen on Primo Levi's report from the death camps
The Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion by EO Wilson
Jonathan Derbyshire wonders if religion and science can get along
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