Plenty of profile but a dearth of results
Andrew Whiten casts a sceptical eye over the popular field of memetics. The idea of "memes" was born in Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene and so is already a quarter-century old. Dawkins spent most...
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Claims on armies of the dead
The Tarim Mummies
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The first Word but not the last
Discipleship and Imagination - Tradition and Imagination
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Hymns in full swing before West arrived
A History of the Church in Africa
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Musical pacifists hit troubled times
The Biographical Tradition in Sufism - The Chishtis
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A lesson for Thwackum
Religion and Community
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a novelist who committed suicide: "It was an uncertain spring. The weather, perpetually...
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Fundamentalism: just a personality type?
The Battle for God
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Substance abuse and what we get out of it
Intoxicating Minds
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From wax tablets to computers
Metaphors of Memory
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From Hittites to the hit parade
The latest edition of the Grove music dictionary contains much more on pop and non-western music as well as an online version. Hugh Wood assesses the traditional parts, while Christopher Wood...
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A massacre in Eden
Over millions of years the fauna and flora of North America have evolved in time with continental shifts. But these changes pale when compared with the devastating impact made by man, writes Tim...
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Beaten, banged up but still unbowed
Pramoedya Ananta Toer has endured prison and had his books banned. But at 75, international recognition has finally beckoned. C. W. Watson reports. Book burnings and raids on libraries have been the...
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To declare your genius...
... just slip on a white lab coat. More than a shield against spills, it signifies membership of an isolated and elite world, argues Maura C. Flannery. The lab coat is a very persistent symbol of...
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How a handbag cast its shadow on places of light and learning
Stephen Court sketches the ups and downs that have characterised the relationship between politicians and academics over the last century. It is an irony that the prime minister with perhaps the...