Clinton Bennett

He spent a year at the Selly Oak Colleges preparing to serve with the Baptist Missionary Society in Bangladesh and received a Certificate in the Study of Islam from University of Birmingham.

He joined the faculty of Westminster College, Oxford in 1992 and taught there until 1998 when he became an associate professor of religion at Baylor University, Texas.

After a period working for an internet encyclopedia project he began teaching part-time at State University of New York at New Paltz in 2008 and has also taught at Marist College, Poughkeepsie.

[6] Bennett has regularly researched and taught at summer schools in India mainly at the Henry Martyn Institute in Hyderabad, and for The Association for Theological Education by Extension based at Bangalore.

Conciliators were those "Western writers who questioned the prevailing attitude of cultural and religious superiority that led to a belittling of everything non-European"[13] Confrontationalists perpetuated traditional anti-Muslim polemic.

[14] Bennett stressed that the story of Christian-Muslim encounter includes examples of harmonious co-existence as well as of hostility.

Ahmad Gunney called the book "a valuable contribution to the debate on the important question of Islam and the West" and said that "the Baptist minister" had to a "certain extent" complemented "the work of three Muslim writers, M. A. Anees, Syed Zainul Abedin and Z. Sardar".

He argued that no researcher is neutral and that all people need to engage in reflexivity to guard against bias and the imposition of a priori presuppositions.

The fifth, In Search of Understanding: Reflections on Christian Engagement with Muslims after Four Decades, with a foreword by Ataullah Siddiqui, was published in 2019,[25]