The World's Christians. Douglas Jacobsen

the Region Christian Profile Catholic Western Europe Scandinavia’s Protestant Turf Religiously Mixed Western Europe SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 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 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 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 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 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 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 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 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 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 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

      10  Appendix: Counting Christians

      11  Index

      12  End User License Agreement

      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...

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Number of Orthodox Christians living in each region of the world ...Figure 1.2 Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (Sibiu, Romania), interior of mai...Figure

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