Keith Ward talks to Robert Wright about the place of religion in society, East and West, then and now [video 40min]

Robert Wright interviews British theologian Keith Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, on the evolution of religion, the limits of science, quantum weirdness, religion in a global age, self-transcendence, the Godhead, and the problem of evil. Ward studies the meeting points of religion and philosophy, religion and science, and one religious tradition and another. He is the author of the books God, Chance and Necessity; In Defence of the Soul; and Concepts of God. Journalist Wright is the prize-winning author of such books as Nonzero and The Moral Animal.