Publications

Books

Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023) is the first textbook to focus on women’s experiences in the founding, spread, and continuation of the Christian faith. Integrating historical, theological, and social scientific approaches to World Christianity, this innovative volume centers women’s perspectives to illustrate their key role in Christianity becoming a world religion, including how they sustain the faith in the present and their expanding role in the future.

Christianity is now a majority-global South religion, with more Christians living in Africa, Asia, and Latin America than in Europe and North America. Global Christianity: A Guide to the World’s Largest Religion (Zondervan, 2022) is an accessible reference work to help readers understand changes in Christianity in every country of the world with maps, charts, and short narratives.

Rev. Dr. David B. Barrett was a pivotal figure in what would becoming the demography of religion, and also founded what is now the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. From Nairobi to the World: David B. Barrett and the Re-Imagining of World Christianity (Brill, 2023) details the story of how and why Barrett became the first person to quantity the entire religious and non-religious world.

The study of global Christianity is about recognizing the diversity of Christians around the world in terms of their cultures, languages, ethnicities, and worldviews. Portraits of Global Christianity: Research and Reflections in Honor of Todd M. Johnson (William Carey Publishers, 2023) introducers readers to the lives of Christians who have learned about and continue to experience the global church in their everyday lives.

The World Christian Encyclopedia is the authoritative reference work on global Christianity, now in its third edition (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Its oversized 1,000 pages includes detailed information on religious adherents, Christian denominations, and history of Christianity in every country of the world. The Encyclopedia is available in hardback as well as PDFs. The full-color 32-page Global Overview is available for download for only $20!

Databases

The World Christian Database and World Religion Database, both published by Brill, contain detailed quantitative information on Christianity and other world religions in every country of the world, with estimates for the past, present, and future.