Clinton Bennett is a specialist in the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations who
is active in interfaith dialogue through the National Council of Churches USA. Dr
Bennett has taught at several Colleges in the UK and USA, most recently at the State
University of New York at New Paltz (2008-2024). A missionary in Bangladesh (1979-
1982),

he has co-pastored two congregations, served as a University Chaplain, and was
executive secretary for interfaith relations at the British Council of Churches (1987-
1992). A graduate of Manchester, Birmingham, and Oxford Universities, he received his
PhD from Birmingham in 1990 for a thesis published as Victorian Images of Islam
(1992). A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS) and of the Royal Anthropological
Institute (FRAI) he is the author of over a dozen books.

Ordained as a Baptist minister in 1978, Dr Bennett is now a priest of the Old Catholic Apostolic Church and a brother in its Order of Saints Francis and Clare (OSFC) but remains a member of the Alliance of Baptists.

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