Map showing distinctions between Sub‐Saharan Africa and northern Africa
Figure 13.4
Map of Sub‐Saharan Africa showing Christian percentage of the population
Figure 13.5
Christian profile of Sub‐Saharan Africa showing approximate percentage of the region’s Christian population in each of the four Christian mega‐traditions
Figure 13.6
Map of Africa showing European colonial claims, c. 1920
Figure 13.7
Women organized by Leymah Gbowee protesting against the Liberian civil war in 2003
Figure 13.8
Crowded worship service at the RCCG’s Redemption Camp in Nigeria
Figure 13.9
Meeting of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee in South Africa
Figure 13.10
Ethiopian Orthodox priest carrying the tabot to be rechristened during the festival of Timkat
Figure 14.1
East Asia: Global location and population information
Figure 14.2
Regional map of East Asia
Figure 14.3
Christian profile of East Asia showing approximate percentage of the region’s Christian population in each of the four Christian mega‐traditions
Figure 14.4
Traslación of the statue of the Black Nazarene (January 2012)
Figure 14.5
SaRang Community Church is one of the largest Presbyterian congregations in Seoul
Figure 14.6
Map of Indonesia showing distribution of Christians across the country
Figure 14.7
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church (Beijing)
Figure 14.8
Growth of Roman Catholic population and of Protestant and Pentecostal (combined) population in China since founding of the PRC in 1949
Figure 14.9
The Golden Lampstand Church in Linfen, China (Shanxi Province) was one of the largest unregistered churches in the country until it was demolished by the government in 2018
Figure 15.1
Latin America: global location and population information
Figure 15.2
Map of Latin America in late 1500s showing areas of Spanish and Portuguese colonization
Figure 15.3
Regional map of Latin America
Figure 15.4
Christian profile of Latin America showing approximate percentage of the region’s Christian population in each of the four Christian mega‐traditions
Figure 15.5
Tilma of Juan Diego bearing the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe
Figure 15.6
Fr. Marcelo Rossi walking into his church to say mass
Figure 15.7
A photo of officers and family members from the Cristeros Castañon fighting regiment
Figure 15.8
Mural on the back wall of the Kingston Evangelical Church in Kingston, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Figure 16.1
North America: global location and population information
Figure 16.2
Christian profile of North America showing approximate percentage of the region’s Christian population in each of the four Christian mega‐traditions
Figure 16.3
Percentage of adults in each state designated “highly religious”
Figure 16.4
Christian profile of the United States
Figure 16.5
The Supreme Court’s decision to ban prayer and Bible reading at the beginning of the public school day made the headlines of The New York Times in June 1963
Figure 16.6
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. preaching in Mason Temple (Memphis, TN) the evening before he was assassinated
Figure 16.7
The Azusa Street Mission as it appeared in 1906
Figure 16.8
President John F. Kennedy meeting with Pope Paul VI in Rome in July of 1963
Figure 17.1
Oceania: global location and population information
Figure 17.2
Regional map of Oceania showing independent nations and most territories
Figure 17.3
Christian profile of Oceania showing approximate percentage of the region’s Christian population in each of the four Christian mega‐traditions
Figure 17.4
Map showing locations of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
Figure 17.5
Catholic Church on Bora Bora island in French Polynesia