Faith healers
Peace through religious understanding is an admirable goal, argues Edna Fernandes. But who should be paying for it?
Politics & Conflict
Sex appeal
America’s Religious Right has devised a seductive new recruitment strategy, reveals Dagmar Herzog
Backlash
A simple suggestion that MPs leave their religious views outside Parliament turned me into a hate figure for Labour Party Catholics, says Mary Honeyball
True Norwegian Black Metal by Peter Beste
In deepest Scandinavia, Keith Kahn-Harris discovers social democratic Satanism
The Sleeping Giant Has Awoken: The New Politics of Religion in the United States
Owen Hatherley gets to grips with the Religious Right
Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People by Jonathan Dimbleby
Michael Binyon tours Russia with Jonathan Dimbleby
Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen
Jenny Bunker sips the spirit of nobility
Editorial: The real new media
Time for tough thinking
On neutral ground
We have already invented a way for the devout and the godless to get along in public, says Paul Kelly. We just have to believe in it
Gender traitors
From 19th century anti-suffragists to today’s anti-feminists, Sally Feldman finds a common link between women who turn against themselves