Essay/Ethics The limits of tolerance A religious worldview cannot expect the same kinds of tolerance as racial, gender, or sexual identities. Here’s why Paul Russell
Video/Subcultures Utopian communities rarely last. How have the Hutterites done it over four centuries? 28 minutes
Essay/Subcultures What is a cult? Cults are exploitative, weird groups with strange beliefs and practices, right? So what about regular religions then? Tara Isabella Burton
Video/Values & Beliefs An urban cowboy rides through gang-ridden streets, preaching a gospel of redemption 7 minutes
Essay/Religion Monks with guns Westerners think that Buddhism is about peace and non-violence. So how come Buddhist monks are in arms against Islam? Michael Jerryson
Essay/Religion Christians were strangers How an obscure oriental cult in a corner of Roman Palestine grew to become the dominant religion of the Western world Michael Kulikowski
Video/Music Melody, rhythm and piety: the rich forms and meanings of Indian classical music 17 minutes
EXCLUSIVE Video/Religion Why some Chinese millennials are taking up the hermit’s life in the mountains 11 minutes
Essay/Religion Religion without belief Most Japanese reject religious belief while embracing multiple forms of ritual practice. Are they religious or secular? Christopher Kavanagh
Essay/Religion Against Muslim unity Even the pilgrimage to Mecca exposes the myth of a united Islam and the formative power of the wider world Faisal Devji
Essay/Religion Is God a silverback? Protective, omnipotent, scary and very territorial. The monotheistic God is modelled on a harem-keeping alpha male David P Barash
Video/Rituals & Celebrations The Japanese festival that’s one of the world’s most spectacular – and dangerous 2 minutes
Essay/History Six centuries of secularism When the first ‘how-to’ books began to explain the way the world worked, they paved the way for science and secularism William Eamon
Essay/History Medieval graffiti Graffiti on the walls of Europe’s old churches reveals the real Middle Ages – a world far removed from knights and damsels Matthew Champion
Essay/History American secular The founding moment of the United States brought a society newly freed from religion. What went wrong? Sam Haselby
Essay/Religion Spare the rod Christian Domestic Discipline and the erotics of religious submission raise the possibility of a new concept of God Tara Isabella Burton
Essay/Religion Islam’s forgotten bohemians With its subversive poetry, rejection of politics, and ecstatic rituals, Sufi Islam continues to surprise and to thrive Nile Green
Video/Stories & Literature Hinduism has not just one creation story, but many – one for each universe 2 minutes