From Darwinian evolution to the New Age revolution, belief in God has changed, and so has the way we understand the nature and the purpose of humanity.

The New Believers is a series which features revolutionary individuals who have charted the new spiritual territory. Follow this link to The New Believers website.

The series begins with renowned primatologist, Frans de Waal, who shares the findings of 30 years of research with primates. Demonstrating moral sentiments, reconciliation processes, strategic power plays, and cultural ways, the higher primates reveal more than the aggression that is usually attributed to them. De Waal argues that it is time to recognise that humans are not the unique creators of culture and morality.

According to Charles Birch, architect of an Ecological Faith, the battle between science and religion is based on a false understanding of both. The mechanistic universe and the supernaturalist God are both archaic notions, and must give way to a God that is part of the process of creation, and lives through nature, of which man is a part.

Author of several books, including Motherhood and God and Six New Gospels: New Testament Women Tell Their Stories, Margaret Hebblethwaite is best-known as the former Assistant Editor of the international Catholic weekly, The Tablet, a position she held for ten years until 2000. Since then she has lived and worked in a Basic Christian community in Paraguay.

He’s second to the Pope as the world’s most popular religious leader yet the Dalai Lama says he’s not interested in converting the West to Buddhism just teaching it how to be happy in a material world. But is Buddhism itself getting too materialistic?

Forget the Bible. A former school-teacher and radio-show host is now dispensing the word of God in his bestselling series of books, Conversations with God. In their daily conversations God gives Neale Donald Walshe advice on how to unlearn Christian notions of „original sin” and just to be „who you really are.”

With a guitar over one shoulder and a prayer shawl over the other, Robert Esformes brings Jewish Renewal to Jews who have drifted away from the synagogue. Kabbalah, Jewish prayer, and meditation come together in a more mystical and inclusive approach to being Jewish.

Former rock-star turned witch, Fiona Horne, began her personal search for spiritual fulfilment during her Catholic school days. But life on the road with rock band Def FX, would change her course. Now she finds comfort and strength in a religion that is Goddess-centred and gives her freedom to perform creatively in its rituals. With her book, Life’s a Witch: a Handbook for Teen Witches, Fiona has become a mentor to young women who are “charmed” by the popular images of witches on TV.

At a time when Christianity’s stocks are falling, the Alpha Course is attracting younger people back to Christianity across all denominations. Its success is due to former London barrister and convert to Christianity, Nicky Gumbel, who styled the course as an open, conversational, yet doctrinally conservative presentation of the Christian faith.

Through his sensitive portraits of people with Tourette Syndrome, Autism, Korsakov’s Syndrome, and other disorders, Neuro-psychologist and author Oliver Sacks has revealed the awesome power of the mind and body to transcend brain dysfunction.

God-as-the-Sun is preferable to God-as-a-person who, according to Don Cupitt, is well and truly dead. England’s most radical theologian and former Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Cupitt believes that the best way to live is to „pour yourself out” like the constant emanation of the sun’s rays.