People tend to think that the era of great religious building is past. The buildings that evoked our awe and wonder might once have been churches and cathedrals, but the creativity and inventiveness of architects is now expressed in airports, art galleries and sports stadiums.So the versatile publisher, writer and journalist James Pallister’s pertinently and lavishly illustrated new book comes as a revelation. It demonstrates that although we might be living in an age of terrifying religious and tribal conflict and destruction, we are also living in a time of an extraordinary flourishing of sacred architecture. In the West, we tend to think we live in a secular world. Our churches are emptying, or are being sold off for conversion into use as apartments, warehouses or nightclubs. It