Have religious fundamentalists and western Islamophobes alike eroded vital breathing space for secular feminists in Pakistan?
Q&A with Shakira Hussein, author of "From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11"
The conflict in eastern Ukraine has provoked a split in the Russian Orthodox church, with up to 30 million followers at stake.
Q&A with John McHugo, author of "A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi‘is".
Why 20th-century communists couldn’t decide if they wanted to befriend the religious or blow up their churches.
Many far-right politicians have also turned out to be highly superstitious. What’s the link between earthly and divine authority?
Scientists Colin Blakemore and Tom McLeish examine how the cognitive impetus that drove the emergence of science might be considered to be the same impetus that fostered religion and other metaphysical beliefs.
It might be a preposterous story, but we are shaped by the Adam and Eve myth - as Stephen Greenblatt's latest book explains.
An abusive polygamous cult is finally being challenged – but what happens if its members refuse to see themselves as victims?
In "Priestdaddy", the poet Patricia Lockwood has written a hilarious and revealing account of growing up with a Roman Catholic priest for a dad.