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• What do religious groups want from the general election?

  A short guide to the manifestos.

• The Church rejected me because I'm gay

  Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Ralph Jones about how personal experience has shaped his ideas about sex and Christianity.

• Have world religions been the cause of violence throughout the ages?

  As always, the devil is in the detail.

• Reflections on Charlie Hebdo

• New campaign to end blasphemy laws worldwide launches

• Sins of the fathers: child sex abuse in the Catholic Church

  Two new books highlight the horrific scale of child sex abuse within Catholic institutions in Britain.

• "Tout est pardonné" - Charlie Hebdo publishes first edition since last week's attack

• An atheist's guide to Christmas music

  Is it possible to unpick the secular from the religious in Christmas carols?

• Mapping extremism

  Religious fundamentalism comes in many different forms. Here's a short guide.

• Shlomo Sand: How I Stopped Being a Jew

  A review of the Israeli historian's new book.