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Andrew Wingate is Canon Theologian of Leicester Cathedral and a Chaplain to The Queen. In 2009, he was awarded the OBE for his work in interfaith relations. He has been a theological teacher for long periods in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, and at Queen’s College in Birmingham. He was Principal of the international College of the Ascension at Selly Oak, Birmingham, before moving to Leicester in 2000, where he founded the St Philip’s Centre for Study and Engagement in a Multi Faith Society, a local, national and international project. He has been immersed both in Islam and in Hinduism, and is an honorary lecturer now at De Montfort University. This book comes out of 30 years of experience with Hindus in India and in the West. He studied in Oxford and Birmingham Universities, and his doctorate in Birmingham was on issues of interreligious conversion in South India, published by ISPCK/SPCK. He has written six books, including the much-used, and now in its fourth printing, Celebrating Difference, Staying Faithful: How to Live in a Multi-Faith World (Darton, Longman & Todd, 2005).