Felician College Dean a Guest on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s “Sunday” Program 

Lodi and Rutherford, NJ--Dr. Gerard O'Sullivan, Dean of the Division of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and English at Felician College, was recently interviewed for BBC Radio 4's “Sunday” program which aired on September 8, 2002.  Dr. O'Sullivan was interviewed by program host Roger Bolton on the topic of new and alternative religious practices in United States prisons. 

Dr. O'Sullivan teaches a course in Felician's online graduate program in Religious Education on “Religious Education for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue.”  He is a charter member of the Religion-Crisis Task Force, a group of scholars formed after the Waco tragedy for the purpose of providing timely and accurate information about new religions to law enforcement and the media.  He also serves on the National Referral Board of the Cult Awareness Network.  Dr. O'Sullivan has been an advisor to programs appearing on the A&E Network, HBO, and the Canadian Broadcasting Network. 

In 1990 he co-authored a monograph entitled “Satanism in America,” which included a contribution by Special Agent Kenneth Lanning of the FBI's Behavioral Research Unit at Quantico, Virginia.