Lamin Sanneh

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Lamin Sanneh is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, University of Ghana, University of Birmingham, University of Aberdeen, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Lamin Sanneh was the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University. Biography Sanneh was born and raised in Gambia as part of an ancient African royal family, and was a naturalized United States citizen. After studying at the University of Birmingham and the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, he earned his doctorate in Islamic History at the University of London. Sanneh taught and worked at the University of Ghana, the University of Aberdeen, Harvard, and, from 1989–2019, at Yale. He was an editor-at-large of The Christian Century, and served on the board of several other journals. Sanneh had honorary doctorates from University of Edinburgh and Liverpool Hope University.

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Translating the message : the missionary impact on culture (1989) (442)
Conversion to Islam (1980) (134)
Encountering the West: Christianity and the Global Cultural Process: The African Dimension (1993) (83)
The Holy War of Umar Tal: The Western Sudan in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1987) (80)
Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel beyond the West (2003) (73)
Disciples of all nations : pillars of world Christianity (2008) (65)
The Crown And The Turban: Muslims And West African Pluralism (1996) (64)
The changing face of Christianity : Africa, the West, and the world (2005) (42)
State and Society in Dar Fur (1981) (39)
The Changing Face of Christianity (2005) (37)
Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks in the Making of Modern West Africa (2000) (36)
West African Sufi: The Religious Heritage and Spiritual Search of Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal (1983) (35)
The Jakhanke Muslim Clerics: A Religious and Historical Study of Islam in Senegambia (1989) (34)
Translating the message (1989) (33)
A Resurgent Church in a Troubled Continent: Review Essay of Bengt Sundkler's History of the Church in Africa (2001) (33)
The Origins of Clericalism in West African Islam (1976) (33)
The Jakhanke (2018) (32)
Historical Dictionary of Senegal (1982) (32)
The Horizontal and the Vertical in Mission: An African Perspective (1983) (21)
West African Christianity: The Religious Impact (2015) (19)
Shari'a in Songhay: The Replies of al-Maghili to the Questions of Askia al-Hajj Muhammad (1985) (19)
Employee engagement in the public sector: a case study of Western Africa (2015) (18)
The domestication of Islam and Christianity in African societies: A Methodological Exploration (1980) (17)
Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam (2016) (17)
Disciples of All Nations (2007) (16)
West African Christianity (1983) (12)
Gospel and Culture: Ramifying Effects of Scriptural Translation (1990) (12)
The Gospel, Language and Culture: The Theological Method in Cultural Analysis (1995) (12)
Slavery, Islam and the Jakhanke people of West Africa (1976) (11)
Shari'ah Sanctions as Secular Grace? (2003) (11)
CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE OF ISLAMIC DA'WAH, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO AFRICA (1976) (11)
Book Review: Religion and the Variety of Culture: A Study in Origin and Practice (1996) (9)
Book Review: Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in “Secular Britain” (2001) (8)
CHRISTIAN MISSION IN THE PLURALIST MILIEU THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE (1985) (6)
Slavery and Islam (2012) (6)
'They stooped to conquer': vernacular translation and the sociocultural factor (1992) (6)
Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict. Edited by (2012) (5)
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam, and Jesus Christ, Image of God: A Personal Testimony (1984) (5)
Futa Jallon and the Jakhanke Clerical Tradition (1981) (5)
The African Transformation of Christianity: Comparative Reflections on Ethnicity and Religious Mobilization in Africa (2001) (5)
Futa Jallon and the Jakhanke Clerical Tradition. Part II: Karamokho Ba of Touba in Guinea (1981) (5)
Christianity, the Papacy, and Mission in Africa (2012) (4)
AMULETS AND MUSLIM ORTHODOXY (1974) (4)
Futa Jallon and the Jakhanke Clerical Tradition. Part One: The Historical Setting (1981) (4)
Can a House Divided Stand? Reflections on Christian-Muslim Encounter in the West (1993) (3)
Pluralism and Christian Commitment (1988) (3)
Religion's return (2006) (3)
Field-work Among the Jakhanke of Senegambia (1975) (3)
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity: Sanneh/Wiley (2016) (3)
Should Christianity be Missionary? An Appraisal and an Agenda (2001) (3)
Christianity Appropriated: Conversion and the Intercultural Process (1999) (2)
Prelude to African Christian Independency: the Afro-American Factor in African Christianity (1984) (2)
Translatability, a Discussion (1992) (2)
Introduction to the Accra Charter of Religious Freedom and Citizenship (2011) (2)
The Yogi and the Commissar: Christian Missions and the African Response (1991) (2)
Can Europe Be Saved? A Review Essay (2007) (2)
The Last Great Frontier: Currents in Resurgence, Convergence, and Divergence of Religion (2013) (2)
Religion, politics, and the Islamic response in Africa (1998) (2)
Bible Translation, Culture, and Religion (2016) (1)
Sacred Truth and Secular Agency: Separate Immunity or Double Jeopardy? Sharí'ah, Nigeria, and Interfaith Prospects (2002) (1)
11. ‘The World is My Parish’ (2009) (1)
Historical source materials on Islam in Sierra Leone (1977) (1)
God and Mammon (1997) (1)
Resurgence and the New Order in West Africa (2008) (1)
Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African (2012) (1)
Encountering Empire: African American Missionaries in Colonial Africa, 1900–1939 (2017) (1)
Tcherno Aliou, the Wali of Goumba: Islam, Colonialism and the Rural Factor in Futa Jallon, 1867-1912 (1986) (1)
The CMS and the African Transformation: Samuel Ajayi Crowther and the Opening of Nigeria (2019) (1)
Slavery, Islam and the Jakhanke (2018) (1)
The World is My Parish (2011) (1)
Christian Mission in the Pluralist Milieu: The African Experience (1984) (1)
Mission and Statistics: Use with Care (1995) (1)
The Crown and the Turban (2018) (1)
Christians in the Age of Islamic Enlightenment: A Review Essay (2010) (1)
The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions. By James Turner Johnson. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. x + 185 pp. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper. (1999) (1)
Translations of the Bible and the cultural impulse (2015) (1)
Effects of threshing and post-threshing recovery methods on postharvest losses in two varieties of rice (2015) (1)
ROBINSON, David, The Holy War of Umar Tal: The Western Sudan in the mid-Nineteenth Century, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1985, xv, 434 pp., Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index, 0 19 822720 5 (1988) (1)
Sacred and Secular in Islam (2002) (1)
'A Plantation of Religion' and the Enterprise Culture in Africa: History, Ex-Slaves and Religious Inevitability (1997) (1)
Why is Christianity, the Religion of the Colonizer, Growing so Fast in Africa (2005) (0)
Beyond Routes and Kingdoms (2016) (0)
Good News from Latin America? (2004) (0)
Jakhanke Educational Enterprise (2018) (0)
11. Bible, Translation, and Culture: From the KJV to the Christian Resurgence in Africa (2017) (0)
Touba and The Colonial Misfortune (2018) (0)
Book Review: The Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. 8: World Christianities, c. 1815-c. 1914 (2007) (0)
GOMEZ, Michael A., Pragmatism in the age of Jihad: The Precolonial state of Bundu, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, xiii, 252 pp., 0 521 28646 8 (1996) (0)
Old World Precedents and New World Directions (2008) (0)
Prayer, Dreams and Religious Healing (2018) (0)
Martin A. Klein. Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. (African Studies, number 94.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xxi, 354. Cloth $54.95, paper $19.95 (2001) (0)
African Christianity: Historical and Thematic Horizons (2016) (0)
Book Review: The Church in Africa: 1450–1950 (1996) (0)
BRENNER, Louis, West African Sufi: The Religious Heritage and Spiritual Search of Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal, London, C. Hurst and Co., 1984, viii, 215 pp., Glossary, Illustrations, Maps, Appendices, £ 11.95 (1988) (0)
The Emergence of The Core Clans of Jakhanke Clerics (2018) (0)
Eighth Plenary: Receptive Ecumenism in African Perspective (2014) (0)
The Birth of The Jakhanke Islamic Clerical Tradition (2018) (0)
Universality of Grace: Probing the Message of Vatican II (1990) (0)
Beyond the Veil (2016) (0)
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. By Ussama Makdisi. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xiv, 262 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4621-4.) (2009) (0)
Critical reflections on the life of Malcolm X (1986) (0)
The Jakhanke in Futa Jallon (2018) (0)
The IBMR in Retrospect and Prospect as an Editor Retires (2013) (0)
Momodou-Lamin Darame and Patterns of Jakhanke Dispersion in Senegambia (2018) (0)
Bible, Translation, and Culture (2014) (0)
End of Jihad (2016) (0)
Religion and Third World Politics. By Jeff Haynes. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Riener Publishers, 1994. 166 pp. $18.95 (1994) (0)
Sacred and Secular in Islam: Policy implications (2002) (0)
The Avenger and the Redeemer: Christianity & the Cultural Matrix (2008) (0)
Christianity in Africa (2006) (0)
Christian Awakening and the New China (2008) (0)
Missionary Photography: Untapped Source for the Study of Christian Missions (1995) (0)
Ever-Changing Contexts of Mission (1990) (0)
Book Review: Historical Atlas of Islam (2003) (0)
The Yogi and the Commissar (2008) (0)
Book Review: Perspectives in Theology and Mission from South Africa: Signs of the Times Perspectives in Theology and Mission from South Africa: Signs of the Times (1996) (0)
Beyond Confrontation and Crisis (2016) (0)
Jakhanke Centres in Bundu (2018) (0)
HANSON, John & ROBINSON, David, Afler the Jihad:The Reign of Ahmad al-Kabir in the Western Sudan, East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, 1991, 410 pp., $34.95, 0 87013 305 5 (1996) (0)
Religious minorities in history: pathway or false trail? (1989) (0)
The Islamic Education of an African Child: Stresses and Tensions1 (2021) (0)
The Christian Movement in Islamic Perspective (2008) (0)
Assessment of Farmers Perception about Climate Change Impact and Adaptation Strategies Use for Tomato Production in The Gambia (2022) (0)
“Lausanne” — What Does it Mean for Mission? (1995) (0)
Saints and Exemplars (2007) (0)
PERSECUTED POST-WESTERN CHRISTIANITY AND THE POST-CHRISTIAN WEST (2009) (0)
Beyond Trade and Markets (2016) (0)
R. S. O'Fahey, State and society in Dar Fur, London: C. Hurst, 1980, 222 pp., £13. (1983) (0)
Beyond North Africa (2016) (0)
Translatability in Islam and Christianity with special reference to Africa: recapitulating the theme (2004) (0)
Beyond Tribe and Tongue in Futa Jallon (2016) (0)
Tracking World Christianity (2005) (0)
Civilization and the Limits of Mission (2008) (0)
NORRIS, H. T., Sufi Mystics of the Niger Desert, London/New York, Oxford University Press, 1990, xxxi, 180 pp., plates, illustrations, maps, $59.00, 0 19 826538 7 (1992) (0)
Introduction: Christianity’s vulnerable monotheism (2019) (0)
Chapel service (October 15, 1991) (1991) (0)
Book Review: African Religion Meets Islam: Religious Change in Northern Nigeria (1988) (0)
We Believe in One God: The Experience of God in Christianity and Islam, 1st German edition, Annemarie Schimmel and Abdoldjavad Falaturi (Ed.) (1975), 181 (1981) (0)
Pillar of Charismatic Renewal (2008) (0)
Elias N. Saad, Social History of Timbuktu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, viii + 324 pp., £25.00, 0 521 24603 2. (1986) (0)
Lucie Gallistel Colvin, Historical Dictionary of Senegal , African Historical Dictionaries No. 23. Metuchen, N.J. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1981, 339 pp. (1984) (0)
In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884–1936 (2011) (0)
Lecture: Lamin Sanneh of Yale University delivers annual Cole Lecture (2006) (0)
Book Review: Unfinished Agenda: An Updated Autobiography (1996) (0)
Book Review: Prophet Harris, the “Black Elijah” of West Africa (1995) (0)
Forty Years of Missionary Research (1990) (0)
HARRISON, Christopher, France and Islam in West Africa, 1860-1960, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988, 242 pp., £25.00/US $42.50, 0 521 35230 4 (1991) (0)
Beyond Desert Trails (2016) (0)

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