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New Humanist 6/2008
6/2008
Editorial
Vive la Revolución
Parish news
Diary
Atheist Bus Campaign creator Sherine on what was probably the craziest week of her life
Letters to the editor
Zero confidence
Banks collapsing, homes repossessed, jobs disappearing... no wonder the world is in despair. Lukes turns to Durkheim to make sense of the real depression
Deep trouble
Will Turkey take the Yugoslavia option? Oktem on a country caught between Islam and ultra-nationalism
Time for accord
Rabbi Jonathan Romain introduces a new front in the fight against faith schools
Nine lessons and carols for godless people
The faithful often accuse secularists of taking Christ out of Christmas. So that's exactly what we've done. Ince introduces our exclusive December events, and some of the performers, including Ricky Gervais and Phill Jupitus, say what they will be celebrating this year
Fifty years of solitude
Half a century after the revolution, is Cuba turning to new gods? Davidson reports from Havana
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Changing our minds
Left brain, right brain, hard-wiring? Think again
Struggling to choose the top religion? Can't decide between Bible-thumping evangelism or benign, gentle Buddhism? Make the process fun and easy with "God trumps", our cut-out-and-keep metaphysical card game for all the family
Uncertainty principle
Sayle tells Taylor why he no longer has to be right all the time
Something to declare
As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrates its 60th birthday in December, Gearty calls for a fresh definition of this most humanist value
Highland flings
Feldman finally discovers what lies beneath the kilt
Thinkers
Thomas Aquinas does not deserve his reputation as a friend of reason, argues Drury
Dangerous mind?
Howe chases the storm of controversy surrounding the ideas of Edward Said
All that is solid melts into art
Miller witnesses the death of a tradition at Sotheby's
Book reviews
Michael Binyon is impressed by Gilles Kepel's analysis of Jihad; Philip Womack finds redemption in a Norwegian classic; Nina Power takes philosophy lessons from a wolf; James Crabtree is not quite convinced by Jeff Sharlet's family; Jenny Bunker rues a missed opportunity; Stuart Sim visits George Pelecanos's mean streets.
Endgame -- Nailed down
Taylor puts his foot in it
