The politics of religion around the world, featuring: Nadeem Aslam, Diana Athill, Geoff Dyer, Nell Freudenberger, Simon Gray, A L Kennedy, Richard Mabey, John McGahern, Andrew Martin, Pankaj Mishra, Blake Morrison, Alison Smith, Lucretia Stewart - on their personal experiences - close, baffling, acrimonious or non-existent - of the divine.

An interview with Orhan Pamuk; Wendell Steavenson in Iraq;Andrew Brown among in Sweden;Jackie Kay on meeting her father for the first time;John Borneman on fathers and sons in Syria; Kees Beekmans in the 'black schools' of Amsterdam.

Plus new fiction by Gary Shteyngart, Karen Russell and Kamran Nazeer.

And a photo-essay by David Graham: Acts of God.