 Lawrence SullivanLawrence E. Sullivan is Director of the Center for the Study of World
Religions at Harvard University. He carried out his Ph.D. studies in the
comparative history of religions at the University of Chicago under the
direction of Victor Turner, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Kitagawa, and later taught
on the faculty there. He specializes in the study of ritual and ceremonial
performance, with a special focus on Central Africa and South America. He
examines religious beliefs and practices centered on health and healing. His
book Icanchu's Drum received best book awards from the Association of American
Publishers and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is associate editor
of the 16-volume Encyclopedia of Religion published by Macmillan which
received the Hawkins Prize and the Dartmouth Medal from the American Library
Association for the best work in any category of publishing. He is past
President of the American Academy of Religions, whose eight thousand members
teach religions in North American colleges and universities. Recently he
developed the concepts and content for the Museum of World Religions in Taipei,
Taiwan. The Religions of Humanity book series, which Sullivan wrote with
Julien Ries and published with Jaca Book, received the 2000 Hans Christian
Andersen Prize for the Best Series in Childrens Literature.
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