John Bowker is a professor of divinity at Gresham College, London. He also teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and the North Carolina State University. He is an Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, a consultant for UNESCO, as well as a BBC broadcaster. Bowker was the Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge (1984-91); he formerly taught at Lancaster University.

Writings by Bowker

• The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religion (2002 -- editor)
• The Complete Bible Handbook (1998)
• The Oxford Dictionary of World Religion (1997)
• What Muslims Believe (1995)
• The Meanings of Death (1991)
• Jesus and the Pharisees (1973)
• The Problems of Suffering in the Religions of the World (1970)
• Targums and Rabbinic Literature (1969)

See also: World of Faith