The editors of this collection of essays are Mick Gordon, founding director of the theatre company On Theatre in London, and Chris Wilkinson, a theatre director and award-winning arts journalist. The focus here is on the place and purpose of religion based on these questions:
"How do we define religion? Can we define faith? Why in our twenty-first-century's post-Enlightenment world are so many people religious? Why do, and how can people believe in a supernatural god or gods? Is religion dangerous? Does it have a value? What should our ambition for religion be?"
Among the 18 respondents are theologians, priests, commentators, atheists, scientists and others. Our favorite essays are those by Rowan Williams, Karen Armstrong, and Jonathan Sacks.
