Gavin Hyman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at the University of Lancaster, UK, where he teaches courses on western philosophy and religious thought.  His publications include The Predicament of Postmodern Theology (2001), New Directions in Philosophical Theology (ed., 2004), A Short History of Atheism (2010), Traversing the Middle: Ethics, Politics, Religion (2013) and Confronting Secularism in Europe and India (co-ed. with Brian Black and Graham Smith, 2014).