IntroductionPart I: Who They Are - Four Christian Mega-TraditionsIntroduction1 The Orthodox Tradition2 The Catholic Tradition3 The Protestant Tradition4 The Pentecostal TraditionPart II: How They Got There - A Global History of ChristianityIntroduction5 The Ancient Tradition: Beginnings to 5006 The Great Division and the Age of the East: 500 to 10007 The Rise of the West and Decline of the East: 1000 to 15008 Christianity in a Global Era: 1500 to the PresentPart III: Where They Are - Christianity in Nine World RegionsIntroduction9 The Middle East and North Africa: Barely Surviving10 Eastern Europe: Nationalism and New Mission11 Central and South Asia: Confidence and Complexity12 Western Europe: Thin, but Alive13 Sub-Saharan Africa: Hope and Despair14 East Asia: Piety and Politics15 Latin America: After Monopoly16 North America: Power, Freedom, Race, and Nation17 Oceania: Experiments in IdentityAppendix: Counting Christians
DOUGLAS JACOBSEN (Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO) is Co-Director of the Religion in the Academy Project and Distinguished Professor of Church History and Theology at Messiah University (Pennsylvania, USA). He is the award-winning author of a dozen books on a wide range of topics related to religion.