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  • 3 Dec 2012
    Blurring the boundaries: punk rock and religion

    In today's world we face a vast range of human practices which are overlapping and do not function as religious or secular solely or discreetly, says Francis Stewart. He illustrates this in relation to his extensive research into punk music.

  • 2 Dec 2012
    Christianity, Beauvoir and the cultivation of female genius

    Eighty people came to Glasgow University Chapel for the launch of two important new books on religion on 21 November 2012.

  • 22 Aug 2012
    Cultural politics: bread. circuses, sport or festivals?

    As government becomes more technocratic and anonymous, and as recession and financial chaos makes people angry and suspicious towards the political class, the need to be seen to be “where people are” and to shape public mood through cultural activity large and small is here to stay, says Simon Barrow.

  • 4 Aug 2012
    St John's murals put social change in the picture

    The St John's murals, now in their thirtieth year, are now a vital and unusual part of the heritage of St John's Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, the Festival of Spirituality and Peace's principal venue and partner.

  • 11 Jul 2012
    Heritage group decries destruction of sacred Mali mausoleums

    The UN's World Heritage Committee has condemned the destruction of mausoleums sacred to the Sufi strain of Islam in the African nation of Mali.

  • 4 Jun 2012
    The local and the universal: reflections on a jubilee weekend

    Almost thirty years ago, I went to the Yorkshire Dales with a group of friends to undertake an ascent of the Three Peaks. Penyghent, Whernside and Ingleborough make for a stiff day's walking. But we were very young and the challenge of quantity was more significant to us than the quality of more leisured ascent.

  • 17 May 2012
    The O of Giotto: perfect nothingness?

    The question for us today is how, in the many Os we might draw, and in the many circles we form on a daily basis, we negotiate our way across the empty spaces and the deep chasms they inevitably bring into our view, says Dr Andrew Hass. Yet Giotto’s legacy is not all lost: he at least tells us that something, even if that something is a “nothing”, remains there for our creation.

  • 14 Apr 2012
    Filmmaker looks at religion and human rights through painter's eyes

    As he travels around the world presenting his film 'The Mill and the Cross', Polish director Lech Majewski finds himself discussing its religious themes.

  • 19 Jan 2012
    Photographic exhibition celebrates Germany's religious diversity

    A photography exhibition at a historic monastery near Nuremburg takes visitors on a journey to the heart of Germany's many faiths.

  • 10 Nov 2011
    Transforming lives among the Burmese Chin of New Delhi

    A remarkable photo exhibition is showing in Edinburgh through to the end of this month, featuring depictions of the Burmese Chin people by award-winning photographer Bharat Choudhary.