Post-Western Christianity
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The Boston College Institute for the Liberal Arts will present Post-Western Christianity and the Post-Christian West with Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University on Feb. 11 at 5:30 p.m. Sanneh is the author of Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa; Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in “Secular” Britain (with Lesslie Newbigin and Jenny Taylor); Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West, and The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism, among others. His articles have appeared in scholarly journals, including Church History: Studies on Christianity and Culture; Newsletter of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (University of Leiden, The Netherlands); and The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. He also is an editor-at-large of the ecumenical weekly The Christian Century. The presentation will take place in Gasson Hall, room 305.