Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (Oxford University Press) by Cristina Rocha ...

The Contemporary Poetry and Music Circle was hugely influential in the post-war years. Its legacy is finally being unearthed ...

Bill Cooke is the author of The Blasphemy Depot: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association and six other works on the history of freethought. He teaches philosophy in Warrington.

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This prequel to the Southern Reach trilogy breaks every rule – unsurprising for Jeff VanderMeer, the king of new weird ...

In Brazil’s tropical wetlands, ecotourism has forged an uneasy truce between cattle farmers and their old enemies ...

Not long ago, religion seemed to be in terminal decline. But, as Paul Seabright points out in his impressive new book, it is now going from strength to strength. Local cults or “ethno-religions” may ...

Women dating in their 50s and 60s is now normal and celebrated. Let's take a moment to appreciate how far we've come The painting "Nameless and Friendless" by Emily Mary Osborn (1857) may have been ...