Professor Niki Harré is a community psychologist and head of the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau. She has published over 200 scholarly articles and chapters and is the author of Psychology for a Better World: Working with People to Save the Planet and The Infinite Game: How to Live Well Together, both published in 2018 by Auckland University Press.

‘This is a brave book, and a riveting read, by a lifelong atheist about an audacious year-long experiment in faith. As a Christian, I found it moving and humbling to see faith through the eyes of an outsider / fellow traveller. Believers of all kinds will be encouraged to learn that a longing for duty, community and love can draw a long-time sceptic and academic into the hinterlands of faith. Everyone, believer or not, will be challenged, but also informed, about the practices and commitments of religious community.’

• Acknowledgements Preface1/ Preparation2/ Beginning3/ Resistance4/ They Also Serve5/ Strange New Feeling of Happiness6/ My People7/ Imagined Enemies 8/ Imagined Friend9/ Pause10/ Faith, Death and the Duck11/ The Infinite Game Revisited12/ Winding Down13/ On a Religious Orientation and Covert PriestsEpilogue: Closing ProvocationsNotesBibliographyIndex