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3 Jul 2024: Genealogy is all the rage. The TV series "Who Do You Think You Are?" indulges the curiosity of celebrities about their roots and is a big hit.

3 Jul 2024: The organisers and panellists (Credit: Will Ryle-Hodgers). Tying some of these broad themes together was historian Yossef Rapoport's keynote address, titled 'Tribalisation, Conversion and Tribal Genealogy as a 'Language ... His argument, that Coptic

3 Jul 2024: What does mainstream religion make of the Kama Sutra? To read the KAMA SUTRA or the SONG OF SONGS you might feel religion is obsessed with sex. Yet so often the discussion of sex has been a problem in Churches, Temples, Synagogues and Mosques. The

3 Jul 2024: Critics often observe that he wrote histories of mentalities, what they mean is that Auerbach drafted an intellectual history of our present, of the modern subject – a genealogy of the mental

3 Jul 2024: Hatred is a powerful human emotion. It can motivate individuals and nations, sometimes with tragic consequences. Hatred is something most people feel some of the time but how should it be controlled? Certainly not by giving free rein to social media

3 Jul 2024: There’s a pizza joint in Washington DC where a cabal of satanic child abusers meets to brag about their exploits. There’s a pizza joint in Washington DC where a cabal of satanic child abusers meets to brag about their exploits. During his

3 Jul 2024: Africa.'. [4] See, for example Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (London: Fontana Press, 1993); Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion, Discipline and Reason of Power in Christianity and Islam (London and

3 Jul 2024: Irish writer Rose Doyle talks to Ed Kessler about her son’s suicide. Suicide is more common than we might think: no one is immune from suicidal thoughts and there are more than 5,000 actual deaths by suicide in the UK each year. Rose Doyle tells

3 Jul 2024: Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics

3 Jul 2024: Is diaspora community just a posh phrase for immigrant community? Diasporas are often born of misfortune, the experience of homelands left willingly because of lack of opportunity, or fled because of war. In the age after Empire, many subject