Before the Ending of the Day: Life & Love, Death & Redemption

 John Bowker is a prize-winning author who was formerly Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor at Gresham College, London. He has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and at North Carolina State University. He is the editor of The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, and author of What Muslims Believe, God — A Brief History, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions, The Sacred Neuron, Beliefs That Changed the World: The History and Ideas of the Great Religions and The Meanings of Death, which won the HarperCollins Religious Book Prize. Bowker’s recent book An Alphabet of Animals gathers together in words and photographs some of the many ways in which people have looked at animals and have thought about them. Also by John Bowker.