Gina Zurlo’s comprehensive and readily available new book, Global Christianity: A Guide to the World’s Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, is a popular-level reference for understanding the “contemporary trends in the world’s largest religion” and analyzing “how Christianity has changed over the twentieth century and continues to change today” (xv). Chock-full of important facts; colorful maps, graphs, and charts; and demographic data regarding four major Christian traditions, two Christian movements, six continents, and 234 countries, Global Christianity distills an immense amount of information and covers a broad range of inquiries, from questions such as “How many Evangelicals are situated in North America?” and “What is the projected growth of the Christian population in comparison to Islam in Africa by 2050?” to more context-specific questions such as “What does Christianity look like in a Muslim-dominant nation such as Indonesia?”
Drawing from the United Nations demographic database and research conducted...
