Peter Herriot

Peter Herriot is a social and organisational psychologist who was professor of psychology at City University, London, and of organisational psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London. His areas of interest were personnel selection, career management, and the employment relationship. More recently he has applied social psychological ideas to the study of religion, and has written:

‘Religious Fundamentalism and Social Identity’ (Routledge, 2008)

‘Religious Fundamentalism: Global, local, and personal’ (Routledge, 2009)

‘The Poisonwood Paradox: Why Christianity succeeds locally but fails globally’ (Kindle Direct, 2012)

Peter was brought up in a fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren family, and is now a liberal Methodist.