Book review: Majoritarian State
This book of essays on how Hindu nationalism is changing India paints a worrying picture.
Faith & Religion
The complex picture of religion and atheism today
What people in Britain believe – or don’t – has changed dramatically in recent years. The results are likely to surprise you.
How secular feminists are caught in the middle
Have religious fundamentalists and western Islamophobes alike eroded vital breathing space for secular feminists in Pakistan?
“Apparently, wombs can be as dangerous as bombs”
Q&A with Shakira Hussein, author of "From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11"
A 21st-century schism
The conflict in eastern Ukraine has provoked a split in the Russian Orthodox church, with up to 30 million followers at stake.
“This commonly held Western perception is actually profoundly misguided”
Q&A with John McHugo, author of "A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi‘is".
Hammer, sickle, crucifix?
Why 20th-century communists couldn’t decide if they wanted to befriend the religious or blow up their churches.
Revealed truths
Many far-right politicians have also turned out to be highly superstitious. What’s the link between earthly and divine authority?
The science of belief: a conversation
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…
Book review: The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
It might be a preposterous story, but we are shaped by the Adam and Eve myth - as Stephen Greenblatt's latest book explains.