MICHAEL
SELLS is Professor of Religion at Haverford College, Pennsylvania,
where he has taught for 17 years in the areas of Islam; Islam
and the West, Comparative Religions, Religion and Violence, Islamic
and Comparative mysticism, and Middle East love poetry. Sells
also works on the fundamentalist and militant versions of Islam
and on how well-funded fundamentalist missionary groups have succeeded
in dominating not only the image of Islam in the West, but also
the self-representation of Islam among Muslims— a domination
that is only now beginning to be understood and resisted effectively
by Muslim communities. Sells is also an activist. In 1993 he co-founded
the Community of Bosnia, a non-profit organization dedicated to
resisting religious persecution, racism and genocide, and to working
for a tolerant, multireligious society in Bosnia and throughout
the world.
Recommended
Readings:
- The
Bridge Betrayed :Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. By Michael
Sells Second Edition , University of California press 1998.
