READING
12 Western Europe
Description of the Region
Christian Profile
Catholic Western Europe
Scandinavia’s Protestant Turf
Religiously Mixed Western Europe
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13 Sub‐Saharan Africa
Description of the Region
Christian Profile
The Crucible of Colonization
The Postcolonial Era
Challenges
Nigeria: Christianity, Islam, and the Evangelization of the World
Church and Politics in South Africa
Ethiopia: The Last Christian Empire
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14 East Asia
Description of the Region
Christian Profile
Asian Spirituality and Christian Faith
Faith and Politics in the Philippines
Christianity’s Changing Public Image in South Korea
Indonesia: Politics and Religion in Changing Times
The Complexities of Christianity in China
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15 Latin America
Description of Region
Christian Profile
A Complex History of Church, State, and Economy
Popular Catholicism: The Importance of Mary
Non‐Catholic (Evangélico) Christianity
Pentecostalism and Catholic Renewal
The New Religious Economy in Brazil
Holding the Line in Mexico
The Caribbean Difference
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16 North America
Description of the Region
Christian Profile
Denominationalism: The Protestant Diversity that Freedom Produced
Simplifying Protestant Diversity: Mainline and Evangelical
Historically Black Churches
The Fuzzy Boundaries of Pentecostalism
Catholicism in Transition
Orthodoxy in the United States
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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17 Oceania
Description of the Region
Christian Profile
A Complex Conversion History
Mapping the Pacific: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics in Fiji
Christianity and the Relaxed Spirituality of Australia
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10 Appendix: Counting Christians
11 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 3Table 3.1 Five main “families” of Protestantism, representing two thirds of all P...
2 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Major Muslim empires, indicating general attitude toward Christianity...
3 Chapter 10Table 10.1 Orthodox Christians in Eastern Europe. List of Orthodox churches in th...Table 10.2 Christianity in the Balkans. Comparison of the four Christian mega‐tra...Table 10.3 Catholic Central Europe. Comparison of the four Christian mega‐traditi...Table 10.4 Christianity in the Russian sphere of influence. Comparison of the fou...
4 Chapter 12Table 12.1 Levels of religiosity in Catholic Europe by country*Table 12.2 Population size of Christian traditions in religiously mixed Europ...
5 Chapter 13Table 13.1 Social and economic data for ten largest Sub‐Saharan African nations...Table 13.2 Changing size of four Christian traditions in Sub‐Saharan Africa, 1900...
6 Chapter 14Table 14.1 Distribution of three major world religions in East Asia (as approxima...
7 Chapter 16Table 16.1 The mainline Protestant denominations in the USA with membership data ...
8 Part 3Table III.1 Estimated number of individuals associated with the four Christia...
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