Reformed pastor, active in interfaith dialogue and interested in spirituality and solidarity. Co-founder and moderator of l'Arzillier, a place for interfaith dialogue in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Country: Swiss of Indian origin
Biography:
Born in Kenya to an Indian Ismaili family, the author spent his early childhood in England before moving to Switzerland in 1963. He converted to Christianity in 1973 after an 8-month trip to Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. He then studied social and political sciences and theology in Lausanne, and wrote his doctoral thesis on Mircea Eliade.
Now a Reformed pastor in the canton of Vaud, he focuses on interfaith and interreligious dialogue, and is also interested in ethics and North-South relations.
From 1993-97, he was also a lecturer at EPFL on interdisciplinarity, then on relations between science and religion, and science and parascience.
Since 2005, he has been Professor of Ecumenical and Comparative Theology at the University of Geneva's Faculty of Protestant Theology.
He is married with four sons.
