John Westerdale Bowker
John Westerdale Bowker (London, 30. 7. 1935. – ), britanski teolog, anglikanski svećenik i akademik, zaslužan za uvođenje religijskih studija na Univerzitetu u Cambridgeu. Pohađao je koledž Worcester pri Univerzitetu u Oxfordu i od 1974. radio je kao redovni profesor religijskih studija na Univerzitetu u Cambridgeu, Lancasteru, Pennsylvaniji, te Državnom univerzitetu Sjeverne Karoline. Također, kao vanredni predavač radio je i na Univerzitetu u Cardiffu, Newcastleu, Torontu i drugim institucijama. Autor je više desetina knjiga i naučnih radova iz područja religijskih studija. Aktivan je kao konzultant u UNESCO-u odnosno komentator za BBC.

Opus 
Djelomična lista djela:
 Targums and Rabbinic Literature (1969)
 The Problems of Suffering in the Religions of the World (1970)
 Jesus and the Pharisees (1973)
 The religious imagination and the sense of God (1978), Clarendon Press i Oxford University Press, 
 Worlds of Faith: Religious belief and practice in Britain today (1989), BBC, 
 Licensed Insanities: religions and belief in God in the contemporary world (1997), DLT, 
 The Meanings of Death (1991)
 Is God a Virus?: Genes, Culture and Religion (1995), SPCK, 
 What Muslims Believe (1995)
 The Sense of God Oneworld Publications (1995), 
 The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1997), Oxford University Press, 
 The Complete Bible Handbook (1998), 2. izd. (2004)
 The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religion (2002), ur.
 God: A Brief History (2004), Dorling Kindersley, 
 The Sacred Neuron: The Extraordinary New Discoveries Linking Science and Religion (2005), Palgrave MacMillan, 
 World Religions (2006), Dorling Kindersley, 
 Beliefs That Changed the World (2007), 
 World Religions (2008), Paw Prints/Baker & Taylor, 
 The Aerial Atlas of the Holy Land: Discover the Great Sites of History from the Air (2008), Mitchell Beazley (koautori: Sonia Halliday; Bryan Knox), 
 Knowing the Unknowable: Science and Religions on God and the Universe (2009), I.B. Tauris, 
 Before the Ending of the Day: Life and Love, Death and Redemption: Poems and Translations (2010), Key Publishing House, 
 The Message and the Book: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions (2011), Atlantic Books, 
 God: A Very Short Introduction (2014), Oxford University Press,

Vanjske veze 
  John Westerdale Bowker, Encyclopedia.com
  The Revd Professor John Bowker, Gresham College

Britanski teolozi
Anglikanski svećenici