Faith & Religion

The Mechanics of Genocide

Linda Melvern analyses the failure of the international community in Rwanda

Laurie Taylor finds out how long we've got

Ben Marshall embraces his phobia

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

Paul Kurtz reviews a new book on American fundamentalism

Michael Marsden goes in search of the Holy Spirit

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.

Sally Feldman on the dazzling flaws of a Jewish chronicle

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

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