Lamin Sanneh
The Fall of Constantinople and the Fall of the Twin Towers

Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 5:00 p.m.
University of Virginia, Newcomb Hall, Commonwealth Room

Lamin Sanneh is D. Wilis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale University. 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 the author of over a hundred articles on religious and historical subjects, and of several books, including Piety and Power: Muslims and Christians in West Africa, The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism, Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa, Whose Religion is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West, and, most recently Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity.

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