Tom Holland

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Religion

Kingdoms not of this world

02 April 2009
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To imagine that Islam can be transformed with a little nudge here and there into a kind of Church of England with hijabs is absurd, writes Tom Holland. For Christians and Muslims worship different gods, and this has a huge influence on the relationship between religion and state, even in the modern world

Ideas

Golden thread, national myth

18 December 2008
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Those behind the new Labour revolution are beginning to realise that to discard our heritage is also to betray the origins of many of our liberties. The question is how to interpret the meanings of those liberties for modern political life

Religion

Uncomfortable origins

20 November 2008
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We have had a remarkable response to Tom Holland's essay of 13 October on the Christian roots of European secularism. Here the author responds

Ideas

Europe's first revolution

09 October 2008
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The west faces increasing tension with the Muslim world. To plot a course through this turbulent age, Europe must come to terms with what we owe to our Christian past

Arts & Culture

The Persian Renaissance

19 September 2005

A spectacular exhibition devoted to the glories of the ancient Persian empire has opened at the British Museum. It represents one of the great success stories of ancient history

Politics

What Bush can learn from the Romans

25 August 2003

A republic founded on high ideals of liberty becomes a great world power and then drifts into empire. Sounds familiar? It all happened 2,000 years ago

Books

Incomparable ruin

17 June 2002

The Parthenon
Mary Beard Profile Books, 209pp, £15
ISBN 186197292X

Arts & Culture

A sure fang

19 February 2001

The myths that fed the vampire tradition are all but exhausted. Yet in a world where the living are revived by the organs of the dead, the genre is bound to survive, argues Tom Holland

Books