Faith & Religion

Fear factor

Ben Marshall embraces his phobia

Because you’re worth it

Why do all the major religions have a fetish about women's hair? Sally Feldman celebrates a hidden source of power

Freak show

Paul Kurtz reviews a new book on American fundamentalism

Alpha male

Michael Marsden goes in search of the Holy Spirit

Editorial: One year on

I became editor of New Humanist a year ago, just as religious fundamentalism was making its remorseless march to the centre of the global agenda.

Five thousand years of bitterness

Sally Feldman on the dazzling flaws of a Jewish chronicle

Fairy story

Martina Evans reviews a new book about Bridget Cleary who was burned as a witch just over a century ago

Gaza Taliban?

On the eve of the Palestinian elections in 2006, Aya Yasmina May asked what we can expect of Hamas

East of Eden

Jonathan Ree reviews Fallen by David Maine

Continental rift

We first reported on Dyab Abou Jahjah, the controversial leader of Belgium's Arab European League, in July 2004. Since then French riots and the cartoon crisis have raised his profile.…