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• Book review: Hamas by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell & Hizbullah by Naim Qassem

  When it comes to the two big Islamic political parties in the Middle East, should we fight or engage, asks Stephen Howe

• It's Immaterial

  Hindu Council director Jay Lakhani is also a trained scientist. He believes science and religion meet at the level of the infinitely small

• The cosy atheist: Laurie Taylor interviews Rebecca Goldstein

  Laurie Taylor quizzes Rebecca Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, on her novel approach to religion

• Why Faisal Shahzad bombed Times Square

  Blame Pakistan’s simmering anti-Americanism, says Pervez Hoodbhoy

• Editorial: Just believe

  It seems that anti-science is on the rise, but hopefully we've found the antidote

• Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Toby Saul reviews the memoir of an African master

• Judgement day

  Is the world really getting safer? Lawrence M Krauss, the scientist who reset the Doomsday Clock, cautions against complacency

• Shadow pope

  What do the Pope and the secular philosopher Jürgen Habermas have in common, asks Jonathan Rée

• My pious past

  Did you know Peter Tatchell used to be a Sunday School teacher?

• Battle of the Babies

  A new book argues that liberal secularism and high birth rates are fuelling a revival of religious fundamentalism. Caspar Melville speaks to its author Eric Kaufmann