Changing demographics of the world Christian movement from 1900 to 2050
Figure III.1
Nine cultural‐geographic mega‐regions of the world
Figure III.2
Where the world’s Christians live
Figure 9.1
The Middle East and North Africa: global location and population information
Figure 9.2
Regional map of the Middle East and North Africa
Figure 9.3
Map showing overlap of Muslim, Arab, and formerly Ottoman territory in the Middle East and North Africa
Figure 9.4
Map showing nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century European colonization of the Middle East and North Africa
Figure 9.5
Christian profile of the Middle East and North Africa
Figure 9.6
Icon of the Christian martyrs killed on a beach in Libya in 2015 portrayed as saints
Figure 9.7
Coptic Pope Tawadros II appearing in church with Egyptian President al‐Sisi in January 2018
Figure 9.8
Survivors of the Armenian genocide pose with a pyramid of skulls of those who died
Figure 10.1
Eastern Europe: global location and population information
Figure 10.2
Regional map of Eastern Europe
Figure 10.3
Christian profile of Eastern Europe, showing approximate percentage of the region’s total Christian population in each of the four Christian mega‐traditions
Figure 10.4
Three religious sub‐regions in Eastern Europe
Figure 10.5
The Church of St. Sava dwarfs nearby buildings in Belgrade, Serbia
Figure 10.6
Icon of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa
Figure 10.7
The Lord’s Ark Catholic Church (Nowa Huta, Poland)
Figure 10.8
Map of Poland showing area of main support for the Law and Justice Party and areas voting to be “LGBT‐free” zones
Figure 10.9
Cathedral of Christ the Savior being demolished by Stalin in December 1931 and reconstructed in 2000
Figure 10.10
Current cultural and political map of Ukraine showing areas of Russian control and influence
Figure 11.1
Central and South Asia: global location and population information
Figure 11.2
Regional map of Central and South Asia
Figure 11.3
Christian profile of Central and South Asia showing approximate percentage of the region’s Christian population in each of the four Christian mega‐traditions
Figure 11.4
Map showing areas in Central and South Asia where Christians are more densely clustered
Figure 11.5
Map of the seven eastern states of India showing percentage of the population that is Christian
Figure 11.6
Protesters in Pakistan in 2018 after the acquittal of Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman who had been accused of breaking the nation’s law against blasphemy
Figure 11.7
Chart showing divisions of the original St. Thomas Christian community of India into the seven currently existing denominations that claim this heritage
Figure 11.8
Inside of Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Kolkata, India
Figure 12.1
Western Europe: global location and population information
Figure 12.2
Regional map of Western Europe
Figure 12.3
Christian profile of Western Europe showing approximate percentage of the region’s total Christian population represented by each of the four Christian mega‐traditions
Figure 12.4
Distribution of Christian populations in Western Europe
Figure 12.5
Anticlerical Republicans “execute” a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at Cerro de los Angeles during the Spanish Civil War
Figure 12.6
Catholic prolife rally in Madrid with banners that are explicitly anti‐PSOE and pro‐PP
Figure 12.7
Muslims on the streets of Paris during Friday noontime prayers
Figure 12.8
Ordination of Elizabeth Jane Holden Lane as the first female bishop in the Church of England (January 26, 2015)
Figure 12.9
Map of Germany showing major cities and the sub‐regions that are predominantly Catholic, Protestant, and non‐religious
Figure 13.1
Sub‐Saharan Africa: global location and population information
