Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
My thanks to Cecilia Stein, my editor at Oneworld Publications, for suggesting this book, and providing encouragement and criticism as it took shape over time. I also owe a considerable debt to academic colleagues and students at Oxford University over the last ten years, who have provided me with an intellectually hospitable yet critical environment in which to discuss the great questions that lie at the heart of this work. I am especially grateful for many conversations over the last ten years with Joanna Collicutt about the importance of belief for psychological wellbeing.