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Therapy Versus Prayer
10/10 Christopher Harding explores religion and counselling in Japan and the UK.
Cutting Tradition
9/10 Rebecca Steinfeld investigates the place of religious traditions involving genital cutting
Science and Sensibility
8/10 Gregory Tate asks what controls humans: rational thought or unconscious emotion.
Autobiographical Memory and Contemporary Fiction
7/10 Alice Hall explores the effect of blogs, YouTube and phone apps on telling life stories.
Wombs on Legs? Science Fiction and the Control of Reproduction
6/10 Sarah Dillon explores roles for women in science fiction and asks if the genre is sexist.
In Search of Ecstasy
5/10 Jules Evans explores rationalists' suspicions about states of high elation.
Breeding the Mongrel: Language Wars in Early Modern England
4/10 John Gallagher on how 16th and 17th-century global travellers shaped English speech.
False Conception: Female Sexuality in Victorian England
3/10 New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell discusses women's rights activist Annie Besant.
The Real Game of Thrones: Power in 15th-Century England
2/10 Sarah Peverley explores shifts in royal power during the Wars of the Roses.
Boneless, Bloodaxe and Hairy Breeches: What Did the Vikings Ever Do for Us?
1/10 Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the power battles between Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings.