Religious identity is the key source of today’s global distrust and disharmony.The Convert examines the paradoxes of religion: the compassion of Jesus, on the one hand, and the unspeakable cruelties of the Inquisition, on the other; the nonviolent truth of Gandhi versus the cussed bigotry of those who killed him.The novel conducts this examination through the writerly investigations of Christopher. Born Brahmin and raised a Christian, Christopher discovers ...