Book review – religious history

Christianity in England is dying – and our national identity with it

19 April 2025 9:00 am

The self, not society, has begun to matter most to people, with the collective life threatened by ragged bands of individualists lacking a sense of history and burdened by the mere present

Did Christianity make the western mind — or was it the other way round?

31 August 2019 9:00 am

Nobody can accuse Tom Holland of shying away from big subjects. Dominion is nothing less than a history of Christianity…

Thetans under threat

23 April 2016 9:00 am

At last! It has taken over two years, but a British publisher has summoned up the nerve to bring out…

The first suicide bomber was probably Samson, who died while pulling down the temple of the Philistines

Shaping divinity to our ends

20 September 2014 9:00 am

It slips so easily off the tongue. In fact, it’s a modern mantra. ‘Religion causes all the wars.’ Karen Armstrong…