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faith & ideasHere we host debates on values, ethics, philosophy, spirituality, religions, and belief systems. There has never been a more important time to understand ourselves and one another better.
The visceral art of Francis Bacon exposes the shallow godlessness of the new atheists
An influential Turkish network fuses faith and modernity in search of a new social order
For generation under communist rule religion was largely discouraged and heavily persecuted. But nearly twenty years after the collapse of the USSR worshippers and pilgrims are once again flocking to the country's revered shrines. Stella Rock joined Russian pilgrims in their spiritual attempt to unify and cleanse post-Soviet Russia.
The pope's revival of the Latin mass has reignited a Catholic culture war his supporters mean to win
The bursting of the credit boom is a lesson in the human as well as the financial cost of debt
The Qur'an as training manual in a war on unbelief. Plus: Murat Belge goes inside the fundamentalist mind (archive)
Religions need to honestly see the outsider as a constituent of themselves to be true to their open promise.
The Church of England has survived a test. But the arc of history still poses it a larger challenge
A rising generation will take Muslims' post-7/7 intellectual ferment forward, testing institutions
How new evidence and insight is enriching historical understanding of early Islam (archive)
The formation of Pakistan is a case-study in the argument over whether religion can be a variant of political ideology
A group of theologians in Ankara is filtering early Islamic
texts in light of modern reason...is this "reformation"?
The theology and history of Islamic law are important, but more must be known about its practice
The new prime minister's official apology to the "stolen generations" of indigenous Australians may have made a political trap for itself
When a careful lecture on legal pluralism is drowned in prejudice, it’s time to restate the principles of a shared civic space
An argument over sharia highlights the difference between Christian and Muslim visions of law
England's leading churchman exposes a larger national-identity crisis
"Dumb down" or be damned? When a debate about religion and law is hijacked by fury, everyone loses
The science-religion "war" is dust. The real argument
is over power and justice
The debate about Muslims and the west must connect ideas to living realities
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letter to Christian leaders reveals Muslim liberals' intellectual vacuity
A cartoon-war veteran responds to Birgitta Steene's article on Sweden's "roundabout dog"
A "roundabout dog" with a Muslim theme inflames public passions
Arab Christians were agents of progress in the Arab and Muslim world. What happened?
Scientists who indulge religious-mystical fantasies in the interest of popularisation betray their profession
“Mosques have never been so full, nor hearts so empty”. In war’s painful aftermath, Algerians are seeking new accommodations between religion and politics
Ed Husain's entanglement with radical Islam is a lesson in the seductions of dogma
Liberalism, communalism, transnational Muslim identity ... can a new multiculturalism cope with all this? Tariq Modood responds to his critics
A "micropublic" mix can bring Tariq Modood's multicultural vision alivePlus: Nira Wickramasinghe's Sri Lankan lesson, Paul Kelly's liberal caution
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