CONTRIBUTORS

Karen Armstrong, OBE, FRSL, ‘a prominent and prolific religious historian’ (Washington Post), is the award-winning author of A History of God (1993), The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2000) and Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (2014).

James D. G. Dunn is Emeritus Professor of Divinity at Durham University. He is the author of many benchmark books in the field of New Testament studies, including Jesus and the Spirit (1975), Christology in the Making (1980), The Partings of the Ways between Christianity and Judaism and their Significance for Christianity (1991) and Christianity in the Making (3 vols. 2003, 2009, 2015).

Peter Herriot was formerly Professor of Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Religious Fundamentalism and Social Identity (2007) and of Religious Fundamentalism: Global, Local and Personal (2008).

Ed Husain is Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. A cofounder of The Quilliam Foundation (now Quilliam), he is the author of The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left (2007).

Laura Janner-Klausner, a prominent voice in Britain on interfaith relations, is a British-Israeli rabbi who in 2011 became the first Senior Rabbi to the Movement for Reform Judaism.

John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford. His several books on science and religion include God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (2009) and Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science (2011).

Julius Lipner, FBA, is Professor Emeritus of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion at the University of Cambridge. His publications include the seminal textbook Hindus: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (1994, second edition 2010).

Diarmaid MacCulloch, Kt, FBA, FSA, FRHistS, is Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. His bestselling books have won several major awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Thomas Cranmer: A Life (1996), the National Book Critics Circle Award and the British Academy Book Prize for Reformation: Europe’s House Divided: 1490–1700 (2003) and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature for A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009).

Peter R Neumann is Professor of Security Studies and Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (which he founded in 2008) at King’s College London. He is the author of Old and New Terrorism (2009) and co-author of The Strategy of Terrorism (2008).

Martyn Percy is Dean of Christ Church, Oxford and was formerly Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon. From 1999–2006 he served as a Director and Council member of the Advertising Standards Authority. His publications include Fundamentalism: Church and Society (2002) and Anglicanism: Confidence, Commitment and Communion (2013).

Linda Woodhead, MBE, is Professor in the Sociology of Religion at Lancaster University. With the Rt Hon Charles Clarke she co-founded the Westminster Faith Debates in 2011. Her books include An Introduction to Christianity (2004), The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality (2004) and Christianity: A Very Short Introduction (2005).