Table of Contents

1: Does God exist?
2: Why believe in God?
3: The religions of Abraham: Jewish understandings of God.
4: The religions of Abraham: Christian understandings of God.
5: The religions of Abraham: Muslim understandings of God.
6: Religions of India
7: On knowing and not knowing God
Further reading
Index

About the Author

John Bowker is a professor of religious studies who has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina State University. He is an Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, a consultant for UNESCO, as well as a BBC broadcaster and author and editor of several books including: Beliefs That Changed the World (Quercus, 2007); World Religions (Dorling Kindersley, 2006); The Sacred Neuron: The Extraordinary New
Discoveries Linking Science and Religion (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005); God: A Brief History; and The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (OUP, 1997).