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
Faith & Religion
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
The debunkers
India's rationalists are on the frontline of the battle between science and superstition. Caspar Melville reports on their fight to debunk "holy men"
Bad Karma
A recent court case in the United States has found Hare Krishnas guilty of child abuse on a massive scale. Mary Garden uncovers the story of a hidden scandal
Who wears the frocks?
Raffaella Malaguti reports on the latest challenge to the Vatican boys' club
No god in the details
A new film threatens to explode Christianity's central myth. Director Brian Flemming asks what if Jesus didn't exist