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Heavenly bodies (by Sally Feldman, January/February 2012 ): Are you feeling fat after the excesses of the holiday season? Then watch out, warns Sally Feldman. Dieting can be harmful to your humanism
Leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses (by Vicky Simister, September/October 2011 ): When Vicky Simister was excommunicated by the religious sect she lost her family, her friends and her faith
Inside the mind of Scientology's Messiah (by Michael Bywater, January/February 2011 ): Twenty-five years after his death, Michael Bywater revisits the sacred texts of the pulp science writer turned prophet L Ron Hubbard
Whistleblower: working for Scientology (by Paul Sims, January/February 2010 ): Paul Sims speaks to Marc Headley, the Scientology escapee now revealing what life is really like on the inside
Sex, flies and videotape: the secret lives of Harun Yahya (by Halil Arda, September/October 2009 ): Muslim creationist, cult leader, Dawkins' nemesis, messiah. Halil Arda tracks down the real Harun Yahya
Shock and bore (by Fiona Russell Powell, July/August 2009 ): New Humanist prides itself on tracking down and exposing charlatans and cultists. But when they are as bizarre as Genesis P-Orridge, even our nerve failed. So we sent Fiona Russell Powell instead
Rhythm rites (by Crispin Robinson, July/August 2009 ): Crispin Robinson explains why he has become initiated in an Afro-Cuban drumming cult
Unmasked (by Paul Sims, September/October 2008 ): Paul Sims finds out what’s behind the anarchic anti-cult group Anonymous
Motley crew (by Laurie Taylor, May/June 2008 ): Laurie Taylor gets medieval with the cults
Defender of faiths: Laurie Taylor interviews Eileen Barker (by Laurie Taylor, May/June 2005 ): Eileen Barker, the world's leading expert on religious cults, tells Laurie Taylor how it takes an agnostic to truly understand why people choose to believe
In Jehovah’s village (by Daniel Sitole, Web Exclusive, August 2011): God is alive and well and living in rural Kenya. Daniel Sitole meets him