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Lamin Sanneh
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Lamin Sanneh is the D.
Willis James Professor of Missions &  World Christianity at Yale
University.
He also holds a courtesy appointment as Professor of History at Yale
College. A
naturalized U.S. citizen, he is descended from the nyanchos, an ancient African royal house, and
was educated
on four continents. He went to school with chiefs' sons in the Gambia,
West
Africa. He subsequently came to the United States on a U.S. government
scholarship to read history. After graduating he spent several years
studying
classical Arabic and Islam, including a stint in the Middle East and
working
with the churches in Africa and with international organizations
concerned with
inter-religious issues. He received his Ph.D. in Islamic history at the
University of London. He taught at the University of Ghana and at the
University of Aberdeen and served as an assistant and associate
professor of
the history of religion at Harvard University for eight years before
moving to
Yale in 1989. He has been actively involved in Yale's Council on
African
Studies. He is an editor-at-large of the ecumenical weekly, The
Christian
Century, and serves on
the
editorial board of several academic journals. He is an Honorary
Research
Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the
University of
London, and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He
serves on
the board of Ethics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and the
Birmingham
Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of over
a
hundred articles on religious and historical subjects, and of a dozen
books,
including Translating
the Message: The Missionary Impact on
Culture (Orbis 1989); Encountering
the West: Christianity and the Global Cultural Process: The African
Dimension (Orbis, 1993); The
Crown and the Turban: Muslims and
West African Pluralism
(Westview, 1997);
and Whose Religion Is Christianity?:
The Gospel
beyond the West (Wm. B.
Eerdmans, 2003).
For
his academic work he
was made
Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Lion, Senegal's highest national
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For more information, contact: Donald
Yerxa, yerxad@bu.edu
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