The world's Christians :who they are, where they are, and how they got there /Douglas Jacobsen.
Description
The Orthodox tradition --The Catholic tradition --The Protestant tradition --The Pentecostal/Charismatic tradition --The Middle East and North Africa : barely surviving --Eastern Europe : nationalism and new mission --Central and South Asia : confidence and complexity --Western Europe : thin, but alive --Sub-Saharan Africa : hope and despair --East Asia : piety and politics --Latin America : after monopoly --North America : faith in a free market --Oceania : experiments in identity --The ancient tradition, beginnings to 500 --The great division and the age of the East, 500-1000 --The rise of the West and decline of the East, 1000-1500 --Christianity in a global era, 1500 to the present.
xv, 399 p., [32] p. of plates :ill. (some col.), maps ;25 cm.