Introducing World Christianity	1
	Contents	7
	List of Illustrations	9
	List of Contributors	10
	Foreword	11
	Acknowledgments	13
	Map 0.1 Percentage majority religion by province, 2010	14
	Introduction	15
	Part I: Africa	19
	1 Middle Eastern and North African Christianity: Persisting in the Lands of Islam	21
	2 Christian Belongings in East Africa: Flocking to the Churches	35
	3 West African Christianity: Padres, Pastors, Prophets, and Pentecostals	50
	4 Christianity in Southern Africa: The Aesthetics of Well-Being	65
	Part II: Europe	77
	5 Christianity in Western Europe: Mission Fields, Old and New?	79
	6 Christianity in Eastern Europe: A Story of Pain, Glory, Persecution, and Freedom	91
	Part III: Asia	105
	7 Christianity in South Asia: Negotiating Religious Pluralism	107
	8 Christianity in Southeast Asia: Similarity and Difference in a Culturally Diverse Region	122
	9 Christianity in East Asia: Evangelicalism and the March First Independence Movement in Korea	136
	Part IV: Americas	151
	10 Christianity in North America: Changes and Challenges in a Land of Promise	153
	11 Central America and the Caribbean: Christianity on the Periphery	168
	12 Christianity in Latin America: Changing Churches in a Changing Continent	185
	13 Brazilian Charisma: Pentecostalized Christianity in Latin America’s Largest Nation	200
	Part V: The Pacific	215
	14 Christianity in Australia and New Zealand: Faith and Politics in Secular Soil	217
	15 Christianity in Polynesia: Transforming the Islands	232
	16 Christianity in Micronesia: The Interplay between Church and Culture	244
	17 Christianity in Melanesia: Transforming the Warrior Spirit	258
	Conclusion: World Christianity – Its History, Spread, and Social Influence	273
	Index	286