David Cowan is an expert on Religion and International Relations, including economics. He holds a Bachelor of Theology and Master of Theology, both from the University of Oxford, and a Master of Letters from the University of St Andrews, where he is currently a PhD researcher on the influence of the “Religious Right” on American Foreign Policy from Nixon to the present day.
He is author of “Economic Parables: The Monetary Teachings of Jesus Christ” (Paternoster USA, 2007, 2nd Edition 2009). He has contributed essays on “Christianity and Economics” to the Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization (Blackwell) and on “Religious Minorities” to the International Enyclopedia of Political Science (CQ Press USA), both publsihed this year.

