5 (2008)

Parish News
It's fine to laugh at religion, just don't pander to the knee jerk bigots, says Nick Doody
Letters to the editor
Peace through religious understanding is an admirable goal, argues Edna Fernandes. But who should be paying for it?
Paul Sims finds out what's behind the anarchic anti-Scientology group Anonymous
America's Religious Right has devised a seductive new recruitment strategy, says Dagmar Herzog
Seeing is believing, it is said. But, asks Richard Gregory, could it be the other way round?
Elizabeth Wilson on the new scapegoats
That's the philosophy of a unique Muslim sect. Richard Dowden traces its spread across the disaspora
AC Grayling dissects a new defence of Intelligent Design
Why do women screech when men shout? Sally Feldman explores the sexual politics of the voice
Doug Ireland welcomes a passionate and practical approach to secularism
Martin Rowson sums up the history, and future, of the world in one word
Even godless humanism needs a sense of the spiritual, says Paul Heelas
From interior designer to poet of the grotesque -- Owen Hatherley traces the evolution of Francis Bacon, a tortured artistic humanist
Book reviews
Endgame
Laurie Taylor tries a bit of continental drift


















