September 2024 Issue William G Naphy Go Forth and Self-Deny Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity By Diarmaid MacCulloch LR
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October 1994 Issue Edward Pearce Judaism Explained 'Funny... You Don't Look Jewish': A Guide to Jews and Jewish Life By Sidney Brichto LR
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September 2017 Issue Diane Purkiss Origin of the Species? The Rise and Fall of Adam & Eve By Stephen Greenblatt
April 1993 Issue David V Barrett An Unholy Alliance At the Heart of Darkness: Witchcraft, Black Magic and Satanism Today By John Parker LR
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June 2016 Issue Anna Reid Borderlands Veiled and Unveiled in Chechnya and Daghestan By Iwona Kaliszewska & Maciej Falkowski (Translated by Arthur Barys) LR
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September 2015 Issue Rupert Christiansen The Aisle is Full of Noises O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music By Andrew Gant
March 2003 Issue Justin Marozzi Desert Cockerels The Sword and the Cross: The Conquest of the Sahara By Fergus Fleming Sahara: The Life of the Great Desert By Marq de Villiers, Sheila Hirtle LR
September 2004 Issue Norman Stone Centre of Tension Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews By Mark Mazower LR
October 2004 Issue Jonathan Mirksy The Path To Peace An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World By Pankaj Mishra LR
March 2011 Issue Eric Kaufmann Swimming Beyond the Mainstream Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways By Olivier Roy (Translated by Ros Schwartz) LR
September 2007 Issue Jonathan Sumption The Sacred and Profane Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History By David Nash LR
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