Conversations on Religion

ISBN 10: 0826499090 / ISBN 13: 9780826499097

Published by Continuum, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conversations on Religion
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826499090
• ISBN 13: 9780826499097
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

For this book, Mick Gordon, a catholic of northern Irish extraction, decided to assemble a collection of interviews in which the people he found most interesting on the subject of religion and religious belief would take part. The end result gives us a wide range of opinions from an avowed atheists like Richard Dawkins and A.C. Grayling to committed evangelical christians like Alister McGrath. The variety of contributors and ideas in the pages of this book will interest anyone who wishes to take the phenomenon of faith and religion seriously. Includes interviews with:

Richard Dawkins (University of Oxford)

Alister Mcgrath (University of Oxford)

Karen Armstrong (Former Nun and Bestselling Author)

Tariq Ramadan (St Anthony's College, University of Oxford)

Sir Jonathan Sacks (Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of the

Commonwealth)

A.C. Grayling (Birkbeck College, London)

Don Cupitt (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge)

Archbishop Rowan Williams (Canterbury/Lambeth)

Giles Fraser (Wadham College, University of Oxford)

John Gray (University of London)

Lewis Wolpert (University College, London)

Azzam Tamimi (Director, Institute of Islamic Political Thought, London)

Ann Widdecombe (British Member of Parliament)

Shelina Janmohamed (Writer and Commentator on British Islam)

Julia Neuberger (Rabbi /Member of The House of Lords, UK)

Abdelwahab El-Affendi (Centre For The Study of Democracy, University of Westminister)

Imam Mohammed Yusuf Al-Hussaini (Interfaith Alliance)

Fraser Watts (Queen's College, University of Cambridge)

About the Author

Mick Gordon is an international award-winning theatre director. He has been Associate Director at the National Theatre and Artistic Director of The Gate Theatre, and he is the founding director of On Theatre.Chris Wilkinson studied Theology at Cambridge University, UK. He is a theatre director and an award-winning arts journalist. He has written for The Scotsman, The Financial Times, Prospect Magazine and The Guardian.