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We live - we are often told - in a secular age. Yet we also live in an age in which human affairs are influenced as never before by religion. From international terrorism to the multicultural society on our doorstep, our lives are affected every day by what people believe about the divine.
This weekend a two-part encyclopedia is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand modern life. Based on the work of some of the world's most respected academics, it offers a convenient and fascinating introduction to some of humanity's profoundest - and strangest - ideas.
The two-part encyclopedia is followed by six mini-booklets
Saturday 14 June : 'The Encyclopedia of World Religions' Part 1
Sunday 15 June: 'The Encyclopedia of World Religions' Part 2
Monday 16 June: Christianity
Tuesday 17 June: Islam
Wednesday 18 June: Judaism
Thursday 19 June: Hinduism
Friday 20 June: Buddhism
Saturday 21 June: Sikhism
If you have missed part of the Religion series please click here
- 1 Andreas Whittam Smith: The Greeks have spoken and the eurozone's fate is sealed
- 2 Mark Steel: If religion is 'marginal', I'm the Pope
- 3 Deborah Ross: Quick! Cover up those piano legs! Anything could happen!
- 4 The Daily Cartoon
- 5 Jude Rogers: The Welsh language is too precious to be allowed to disappear
- 6 Robert Fisk: Could there be some bad guys among the rebels too?
- 7 The dark side of Dubai
- 1 Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals secret world of money and politics
- 2 Vatican told to pay taxes as Italy tackles budget crisis
- 3 The West Bank's Bobby Sands
- 4 Prehistoric cybermen? Sardinia's lost warriors rise from the dust
- 5 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 6 Female teachers accused of giving boys lower marks
- 7 The artist vandalising advertising with poetry
- 8 Apple admits it has a human rights problem
- 9 Mark Steel: If religion is 'marginal', I'm the Pope
- 10 Can you master a language in a weekend?
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