Publications on Religion and Society in Africa

Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West Africa Islam.(Oxford University Press, 2016)

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. Forthcoming)

The African Christian and Islam.Edited by Lamin Sanneh and John Azumah. (Langham Monographs, 2013)

Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African. (Eerdmans, 2012)

Disciples of All Nations:  Pillars of World Christianity (Studies in World Christianity) (Oxford, 2007)Who’s Religion is Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West (Eerdmans, 2003)

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa (Harvard University Press, 2000)

Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in ‘Secular’ Britain, co-ed. (Wipf & Stock, 1998)

The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism (Westview Press, 1997) 

Piety and Power: Muslims and Christians in West Africa (Orbis Books, 1996)

Het Evangelie is Niet Los Verkrijgbaar (Kampen, Netherlands, 1996)

Religion and the Variety of Culture: A Study in Origin and Practice (Trinity Press International, 1996)

Encountering the West: Christianity & the Global Cultural Process: The African Dimension (Orbis Books, 1993)

The Jakhanke Muslim Clerics: A Religious & Historical Study of Islam in Senegambia (c.1250-1905) (University Press of America, 1990)

Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture (Orbis Books, 1989)

West African Christianity: The Religious Impact (Orbis Books, 1983)