Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 11 November
Try this Jesus for size
Having probably given up on the locals at long last, the statue of Jesus Christ overlooking Rio de Janiero was dethroned as the world’s most famous last week.
- 93 results for religion
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 2 July
Losing the religion
The accession of Australia’s 27th prime minister, Julia Gillard, has struck a blow for several demographics traditionally and unfairly repressed, derided and/or mocked: the female, the red-haired, the unmarried, the Welsh…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 9 March
Getting round Switzerland’s minaret ban
The infamous minaret ban in Switzerland, the result of a nationwide vote last autumn, continues to cause international confusion and indignation.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Sunday 19 June
How teasing just makes a Mormon merrier
It is one of the defining motifs of our age: the righteous fury of the religiously affronted. It is not peculiar to any faith: in the last few decades in Britain alone, Christians have demonstrated against a musical (Ric…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 22 November
Finland loses its religion
The weeks leading up to Christmas should be a joyous time for the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Affairs / Politics
Americas briefing
Puerto Rico's role in the elections, and the Jehovah's Witnesses who put their faith in property deals.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Friday 9 November
Divine democracy
It’s been a big week for elections political and ecclesiastical, and a week where chance has been seen as the enemy of the ballot box – except in one time-honoured rite where blind luck rules.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 3 August
Water fight incurs the wrath of the Islamic Revolution
Tehran’s chief of police, Hossein Sajednia, boasted on Sunday that the rule breakers had been identified and would be punished for actions that both “opposed Islamic values” and disrupted “social order”.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Sunday 25 April
Catholics – shrugging off the insults since 1829
Britain’s five-million strong Catholic community has a pretty thick skin when it comes to insults about their church and the Pope, so a leaked Foreign Office memo suggesting that Benedict XVI’s visit in September could…
Affairs / Urbanism
Barriers and barrios
Melilla, in Morocco, is one of two Spanish colonies left on the African continent. The enclave is a lure for illegal immigrants who try to cross the border here into Europe. But this is not the whole story; Monocle looks…
Affairs / Society
Oceania Briefing
An Australian town with new-found pilgrim pulling power, French Polynesia the rebellion, Australian students get wily, and the next Guantánamo.
Affairs / Politics
Happy now?
The nation that had no TV until 10 years ago and is famous for using its Gross National Happiness index as a measure of success rather than GDP, has been a democracy for just over a year. Monocle talks to its prime minister…
Business / Society
Pray & display
Poland remains one of Catholicism’s European bastions, where the religious market is thriving. Trade fair SacroExpo is a kitsch celebration of everything from souped-up confessional boxes to huge church bells – via an…
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
Winds of change strike the gassy cattle of Australia and preaching to the converted in the Cook Islands.
The Urbanist, episode 24
Divided cities: from religion to economics, The Urbanist finds out why walls don’t work and how a flourishing neighbourhood doesn’t mean it’s any more neighbourly.
The Monocle Daily, episode 79
We ask does religion help politicians win votes? We also discuss the transparency of tech companies and hear about a firm clearing up space debris.
The Monocle Weekly, episode 174
Former UK ambassador to Afghanistan Sherard Cowper-Coles, journalist Frances Harrison discusses Sri Lanka, and Kristiane Backer on her journey from MTV host to finding religion.
The Monocle Weekly, episode 202
Andrew Tuck and Sophie Grove meet geneticist Professor Steve Jones to talk religion, learn about impulse actions with Dr David Lewis, and hear about a village on the edge of desertion with film director Sarah Gavron.