John Bowker is Emeritus Professor at Gresham College, London. He has taught Religious Studies at the universities of Cambridge, Lancaster and Pennsylvania, and at North Carolina State University. He is the author or editor of more than forty books, including The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (Oxford University Press, 1997), The Meanings of Death (Cambridge University Press, 2008, winner of the HarperCollins Prize), What Muslims Believe (Oneworld, 2009), God: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014), Beliefs that Changed the World (Quercus, 2015) and Why Religions Matter (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
