Volume 123 Issue 5 September/October 2008
- Editorial: Something to believe in
- With so much to choose from, what do you believe in?
Features
- Without illusions
- Doug Ireland welcomes a passionate and practical approach to secularism
- Speak up
- Why do women screech when men shout? Sally Feldman explores the sexual politics of the voice
- Unmasked
- Paul Sims finds out what’s behind the anarchic anti-cult group Anonymous
- Origin of the specious
- AC Grayling dissects a new defence of Intelligent Design
- 'Follow God, work & provoke no one'
- That’s the philosophy of a unique Muslim sect. Richard Dowden traces its spread across the diaspora
- Fathers under fire
- Elizabeth Wilson on the new scapegoats
- How do I look?
- Seeing is believing, it is said. But, asks Richard Gregory, could it be the other way round?
- Faith healers
- Peace through religious understanding is an admirable goal, argues Edna Fernandes. But who should be paying for it?
- What lies beneath
- Even godless humanism needs a sense of the spiritual, says Paul Heelas
Cover Stories
- Sex appeal
- America’s Religious Right has devised a seductive new recruitment strategy, reveals Dagmar Herzog
Regulars
- Endgame: Walk on by
- Laurie Taylor tries a bit of continental drift
- Diary: Heard the one about the ex-Muslim?
- It's fine to laugh at religion, just don't pander to the knee-jerk bigots, says Nick Doody
Culture
- The Ten Commandments
- In his new book, New Humanist cartoonist Martin Rowson sums up the history, and future, of the world in one word
- Cold flesh
- From interior designer to poet of the grotesque – Owen Hatherley traces the evolution of a tortured artistic humanist
Book Reviews
- God's Executioner by Micheál Ó Siochrú
- Stephen Howe on a new history of Cromwell's Irish adventure
- The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
- Philip Womack wonders why Peter Ackroyd has meddled with a classic
- Manifestos for the 21st Century
- Caroline Moorehead reviews an impressive new series on censorship
- Stop Me If You've Heard This by Jim Holt
- Natalie Haynes is not amused by a new study of humour
- The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life by Austin Dacey
- Jenny Bunker is at ease with a secular conscience
