A native of Gambia, Lamin Sanneh is the D. Willis JamesProfessor of Missions and World Christianity and professorof history at Yale Divinity School. His many books includeEncountering the West: Christianity and the GlobalCultural Process and Abolitionists Abroad: AmericanBlacks and the Making of Modern West Africa.
International Bulletin of Missionary Research,
Outstanding Books for Mission Studies (2003) Christianity
Today, Award of Merit, Christianity and Culture (2004)
Association of Theological Booksellers, Theologos Award for Best
General Interest Book (2004) The Mennonite
"Lamin Sanneh uses a question-and-answer format to consider the
rise of what he calls 'world Christianity, ' a religion that comes
from local cultural contexts and challenges assumptions held by
Western Christianity. Sanneh is a scholarly, wise and irenic
conversation partner." Andrew F. Walls
"The astonishing religious changes of the twentieth century have
produced a post-Christian West and a post-Western Christianity.
Historical and cultural factors often prevent those who live in the
post-Christian West from seeing the true face of world
Christianity. This intriguing little book disperses these fogs to
reveal the new contours of Christianity in the world. The argument
moves at a cracking pace, and Lamin Sanneh characteristically
provides plenty of supporting information in a highly readable form
and with the freshness of perspective we expect from him. A most
valuable statement of the place and nature of Christianity in the
world." Frederick W. Norris
"Lamin Sanneh's accessible dialogue about world Christianity offers
a clear vision. Having listened to questions from his students and
colleagues, he prints them and answers them. Because 60 percent of
the world's Christians live outside of the United States and
Europe, we need a view that contrasts globalization and mission,
guilt and faith, confusion and confession. This small volume should
be the first anyone reads to see that view. All interested persons,
including experts, will find these pages eye-opening." Philip
Jenkins
"Lamin Sanneh is both a formidable scholar and an elegant writer.
To nobody's surprise, then, Whose Religion Is Christianity?
is a thoughtful, learned, provocative, and truly stirring analysis
of the growth of global Christianity, including its phenomenal rise
in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This book is essential reading
for anyone interested in missions, in the impact of the Bible, in
the relationship between religion and politics -- in short, for
anyone interested in how Christianity stands in the
twenty-first-century world." International Bulletin of Missionary
Research
"A gem of a book, in an imaginative style: evangelistic,
recapitulative, apologetic. Worth buying ? even an extra copy to
give away." Mission Today
"The secular fundamentalists may choose to stand obtuse and dry in
the little cave of their own parochialism, but the Niagara of
religious fervour is cascading down around them. This is precisely
the thesis the book attempts to establish." The Expository
Times
"This small book is a must for every minister or priest as well as
an important book for the concerned laity. . . This book is, as
with all Sanneh's writing, clearly and elegantly written."
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