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title: "Religion and violence, Jimmy Mubenga, and TV melancholia"
date: "2015-03-25T11:52:12+00:00"
modified: "2015-03-25T11:52:12+00:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/2015/03/25/religion-and-violence-jimmy-mubenga-and-tv-melancholia/"
post_id: 6372
categories: ["Uncategorised"]
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# Religion and violence, Jimmy Mubenga, and TV melancholia

1\. [Have world religions been the cause of violence throughout the ages?](/articles/4848/have-world-religions-been-the-cause-of-violence-throughout-the-ages)



Jonathan Rée reviews Karen Armstrong’s new book, *Fields of Blood*.

2\. [The death of Jimmy Mubenga](/articles/4841/the-death-of-jimmy-mubenga)

How the UK’s legal system cast a black man beyond justice, by Lara Pawson.

3\. [How to let go: The Leftovers, Broadchurch, and The Missing](/articles/4839/how-to-let-go-the-leftovers-broadchurch-and-the-missing)

The last year has seen a proliferation of TV shows exploring the different facets of loss, from the intimate to the metaphysical, says Mark Fisher.

4\. [Everyday humanism: How should we live?](/articles/4844/everyday-humanism-how-should-we-live)

One reason people leave religions behind is to escape the rules they impose on daily life. But does humanism have its own codes? Rory Fenton reviews a new book on humanism.

5\. [Laurie Taylor’s interviews: Stuart Hall](/playdice/2551)





In this archive piece from 2011, Stuart Hall (who passed away last year) talks to Laurie Taylor about race, relativism and revolution.





*For February’s top long-reads,[ click here.](/articles/4835/travels-in-china-the-enlightenment-and-the-west-and-charlie-hebdo)*







*For more on our Spring issue – out now – [click here](/articles/4834/the-spring-2015-new-humanist-is-out-now).*