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James Walters is founding director of the Faith Centre and the Religion and Global Society Research Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a Professor in Practice in the Department for International Relations and an affiliated researcher in the Department of International Development. The LSE Faith Centre promotes religious literacy and interfaith leadership among the LSE’s global student body, in government and to wider global publics. Religion and Global Society conducts research in the field of religious pluralism, including the intersections of climate change and women’s leadership in the creation of religiously plural institutions. Their work is currently focused on Egypt, Israel, Palestine, and Indonesia, as well as in the UK. Professor Walters’ books include Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict (2019), Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations (2018), and Religious Imaginations: How Narratives of Faith are Shaping Today’s World (2018). He is a priest in the Church of England and a Canon Theologian at Chichester Cathedral in West Sussex, UK.