Demob happy
After seven years on the faith front lines, Guardian religious affairs correspondent Stephen Bates is glad to be back on civvy street
Faith & Religion
Thinkers: William Blake
William Blake was a confused failure but a great humanist, says Shirley Dent
Global warning
With cartoon controversies reverberating across the world Tzvetan Todorov, one of the world’s foremost philosophers, considers the after-effects of the Danish images
Holy communion
New wave atheism is aggressively antagonistic to religion. But, argues Richard Norman, it’s more fruitful to find common ground
Allah’s ambassadors
Edna Fernandes gains unique access to the ultra-orthodox Deoband madrassa in rural India
A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward
Keith Kahn-Harris on a Jewish photographic history
Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamic Turn by Asef Bayat
Sami Zubaida questions Islamic democracy
The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
Rev'd Dr Giles Fraser on why you should read the Bible
Thinker: Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach was the man who brought religion down to earth, says Nina Power
Diary
Lucy Mangan is lacking put-downs for the pious