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The American novelist Marilynne Robinson will deliver the 2013 Theos lecture, which explores issues of religion in public life. Previous speakers have included Rowan Williams, Mark Thompson, and Jonathan Sacks. Her subject will be “Religion and Politics in Contemporary America”, and the lecture will be chaired by Mark Lawson at Theos’s headquarters at 77 Great Peter Street, London SW1 on 28 November. Robinson is the author of three novels including, most recently, Home, which received the Orange prize for fiction. Her most recent work on religion and politics was her 2012 collection, When I Was a Child I Read Books. The Atlantic said of it: “Robinson shows a remarkable ability to breathe new life into topics that have calcified into staunchly opposed stances”.

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