Argues that science's focus on the natural has displaced the supernatural in Western religion, such that it is now largely reduced to a concern for liberal causes.

Paul Gifford is Emeritus Professor of Religion at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of several works on African Christianity, including African Christianity: Its Public Role; Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy; and Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya,