Books
2008 Revised Select English
Bibliography for Christianity: A Short Global HistoryI.
Recent Histories of Global
Christianity
Bevans, Stephen
B. and Roger P Schroeder. Constants in Context: A Theology
Of Mission for
Today. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books,
2004
Green, Vivian.
A New History of Christianity. New York: Continuum
Publishing Company, 2000
Hastings,
Adrian, ed. A World History of Christianity. Grand
Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999
Irvin, Dale T.
and Scott W. Sunquist. A History of the World Christian
Movement. Vol. I. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2001
Kee, Howard
Clark, Emily Albu, Carter Lindberg, J. William Frost, and Dana
L. Robert. Christianity: A Social and Cultural History,
2nd edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 1998
Marty, Martin.
The Christian World: A Global History. Modern
Library. New York, Random House, 2008
Noll, Mark A.
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of the
Church. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book
House, 2000
Sanneh, Lamin.
Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity.
Oxford Studies in World Christianity, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2008
Spickard, Paul
R. and Kevin M. Cragg. A Global History of Christians: How
Everyday Believers Experienced Their World. Grand Rapids,
MI: Baker Book House, 1994
Verstraelen,
Frans J. Christianity in A New Key: New Voices and Vistas
Through
Intercontinental Communication.
Gweru, Zimbabwe: Mambo Press, 1996
Woodhead,
Linda. An Introduction to Christianity. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004
Reference Works and Collected
Studies
Anderson,
Gerald H., ed. Biographical Dictionary of Christian
Missions. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1998 Burgess,
Stanley M. and Eduard M. Van der Mass, eds. The New
International
Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements,
rev. and exp. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003
Cross, Frank L.
and Elizabeth Livingston. The Oxford Dictionary of the
Christian Church,
3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
Ellsberg,
Robert. All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets
and Witnesses For Our Time. New York: The Crossroad
Publishing Company, 1997
Ferguson,
Everett ed., Michael P. McHugh and Frederick W. Norris, assoc.
eds.
Encyclopedia of Early Christianity,
2nd ed., 2 vols. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1997
Hinnells, John
R. Who’s Who of World Religions. London: The Macmillan
Press, 1992
Johnson, Todd M
and Sanddra S. Kim, “The Changing Demographics of World
Christianity,” World Christian Database (www.worldchristiandatabase.org),
2006
Latourette,
Kenneth Scott. A History of the Expansion of Christianity.
7 vols. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1937-45;
[Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1970]
Lewis, Donald
M., ed. Christianity Reborn: The Global Expansion of
Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century. Grand Rapids, MI:
Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004
Sanneh, Lamin. Translating
the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture. Maryknoll,
New York: Orbis Books, 1989
Sunquist, Scott
W., ed., David Wu Chu Sing and John Chew Hiang Chea, assoc. eds.
A Dictionary of Asian Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001
Walls, Andrew
F. The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books; Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2002
_________.
The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the
Transmission of
the Faith. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
Books; Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1996
Compact
Histories and Studies of Christianity by Region
AFRICA
Adams, William Y. Nubia: A Corridor to Africa.
London: Allen Lane, 1977
Asamoah-Gyadu,
J. Kwabena. “African Initiated Christianity in Eastern Europe:
Church of the ‘Embassy of God’ in Ukraine.” International
Bulletin of Missionary Research 30, no. 2 (April
2006)
Bediako, Kwame.
Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of a Non-Western
Religion.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
Books, 1995
Gifford, Paul.
Ghana’s New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing
African Economy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press,
2004
Hamilton,
Alistair. The Copts and the West, 1439-1822. New York and
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006
Hastings,
Adrian. The Church in Africa: 1450-1950. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1994
Ewald and
Brigitte Kleidt. Ethiopia, Christian Africa: Art, Churches
and Culture. Trans. John M. Deasy.
Ratingen, Germany: Melina-Verlag,
1999
Meinardus, Otto
F.A. Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity. Cairo:
American University in Cairo Press, 1999
Patrick,
Theodore H. Traditional Egyptian Christianity: A History of
the Coptic
Orthodox Church. Greensboro, NC:
Fisher Park Press, 1996
Sanneh, Lamin
and Joel E. Carpenter, eds. The Changing Face of
Christianity:
Africa, the West and the World. (New
York: Oxford University Press,
2005
Sundkler, Bengt
and Christopher Stead. A History of the Church in Africa.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
Taylor, John
H. Egypt and Nubia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1991
Walls, Andrew
F. and Wilbert R. Shenk. Exploring New Religious Movements:
Essays in honor
of Harold W. Turner. Elkhart, IN:
Mission Focus, 1990
ASIA
England, John C. The Hidden History of Christianity in Asia.
Delhi: Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Hong
Kong: Christian Conference of Asia, 1996
Gillman, Ian
and Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. Christians in Asia Before 1500.
Ann Arbor, MI:
University of Michigan Press, 1999
Lai, Whalen and
Michael von Brück. Christianity and Buddhism: A Multi-Cultural
History of Their Dialogue. Abridged
from the German. Trans.
Phyllis Jestice.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2000
Moffett, Samuel
Hugh. A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. I, Beginnings
To 1500, 2nd ed. Maryknoll,
NY: Orbis Books, 1998; Vol. II,
Maryknoll, NY:
Orbis Books, 2005
CHINA
Aikman, David. Jesus
in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing
the Global Balance of Power. Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2003
Bays, Daniel
H. Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century
To the Present. Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 1996
Chan, Kim-Kwang,
“Missiological Implications of Chinese Christianity in a
Globalized Context,” Quest: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Asian Christian Scholars 4, no.2 (November 2005), 55-74
Covel, Ralph
C. Confucius, The Buddha, and Christ: A History of the
Gospel in Chinese.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1986
Lee, Peter K.H.,
ed. Confucian-Christian Encounters in Historical and
Contemporary
Perspective. Lewiston/Queenstown, NY:
Edwin Mellen Press, 1991
Standaert,
Nicolas, ed. Handbook of Christianity in China, Volume One:
635-1800.
Leiden: E.J.
Brill, 2001
Sumiko,
Yamamoto. History of Protestantism in China: The
Indigenization of
Christianity. Tokyo: To¯ho¯ Gakkai,
2000
Uhalley,
Stephen, Jr. and Xiaoxin Wu, eds. China and Christianity:
Burdened Past,
Hopeful Future. Armonk, NY and
London: M.E. Sharpe, 2001
Shui, Huo,
“View from the Wall: China, The Greatest Christian Nation?”
ChinaSource 5, no. 4 (Winter, 2003)
Tang, Edmond
and Jean-Paul Wiest, eds. The Catholic Church in Modern
China: Perspectives.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993
Phan, Peter C.
Mission and Catechesis: Alexandre de Rhodes & Inculturation
In
Seventeenth-Century Vietnam.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1998
INDIA
Ariarajah, Wesley.
Hindus and Christians: A Century of Protestant Ecumenical
Thought. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Company, 1991
Coward, Howard,
ed. Hindu-Christian Dialogue: Perspectives and Encounters.
Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1993
De Nobili,
Roberto. Preaching Wisdom to the Wise: Three Treatises by
Roberto de Nobili, S.J., Missionary and Scholar in 17th
Century India.
Trans. and Intro. Anand Amaladass, S.J. and Francis
X. Clooney, S.J. St. Louis, Missouri: The Institute of Jesuit
Sources, 2000
Downs,
Frederick W. History of Christianity in India, Vol. V, Part 5.
Bangalore, India: Church History Association of India, 1992
Goel, Sita
Ram. History of Hindu-Christian Encounters, AD 304 to 1996.
2nd rev. and enl. ed. New Delhi: Voice of India,
1996
Grafe, Hugald.
History of Christianity in India, Vol. IV, Part 2.
Bangalore, India: Church History Association of India, 1992
Massey, James.
Roots of Dalit History, Christianity, Theology and
Spirituality.
3rd Enlarged Edition. Delhi, India: The Indian
Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, 1996
Mundadan, A.
Mathias. History of Christianity in India, Vol. I: From The
Beginning up to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century (up to
1542).
Bangalore,
India: Church History Association of India, 1989
Thekkedath,
Joseph. History of Christianity in India, Vol. II: From the
Middle of the Sixteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Century
(1542-1700).
Bangalore, India: Church History
Association of India,
1988
Webster, John
C.B. A History of the Dalit Christians in India. San
Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992
Somaratna,
G.P.V. The Events of Christian History in Sri Lanka:
Chronology of
Christianity in Sri Lanka. Mirihana,
Hugegoda, Sri Lanka:
Margaya Fellowship of Sri Lanka, 1998
JAPAN
Elison, George.
Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in
Early Modern Japan. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1973
Harrington, Ann
M. Japan’s Hidden Christians. Chicago: Loyola
University Press, 1993
Higashibaba,
Ikuo. Christianity in Early Modern Japan. Leiden;
Boston: E.J. Brill, 2001
Lee, Robert.
The Clash of Civilizations: An Intrusive Gospel in
Japanese
Civilization. Harrisburg, PA:
Trinity Press International,
1999
Mullins, Mark
R. Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous
Movements.
Honolulu, HA: University of Hawaii Press, 1998
Ross, Andrew
C. A Vision Betrayed: The Jesuits in Japan and China.
1542-1742.
Maryknoll, NY:
Orbis Books, 1994
Suggate, Alan
with Yamauo Shigeko. Japanese Christians and Society.
Bern; NewYork: Peter Lang, 1996
KOREA
Choi, Myung Keun. Changes in Korean Society Between
1884-1910 as a
Result of the Introduction of Christianity.
New York: Peter Lang,
1997
Kang, Wi Jo.
Christ and Caesar in Modern Korea: A History of
Christianity and Politics.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997
Kim, Haeyeon.
The History of the Korean Church. Trans. Hoseong
Jo. Seoul: Seong Kwang Publishing, 1993
Mullins, Mark
R. and Richard Fox Young, eds. Perspectives on Christianity
In Korea and Japan: The Gospel and Culture in East Asia.
Lewiston, NY: E.
Mellen Press, 1995
Sik, Chung Chai.
Korea: The Encounter between the Gospel and Neo-Confucian
Culture. Geneva: World Council of
Churches Publications, 1997
AUSTRALIA
Breward, Ian. The
History of the Church in Australasia. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2001
Thompson, Roger
C. Religion in Australia: A History. Melbourne; New
York: Oxford University Press, 1994
EUROPE
Bradley, James E. and
Dale K. Van Kley, eds. Religion and Politics in
Enlightenment Europe. Notre Dame,
IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001
Brown, Peter.
The Rise of Western Christianity: Triumph and Diversity, AD
200-1000,
2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003
Davis, Robert
C. Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the
Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800. New
York: Palgrave McMillan, 2003
Dupré, Louis.
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern
Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004
Edwards, David
L. Christians in a New Europe. London: Collins, 1990
Fell, Michael.
And Some Fell into Good Soil: A History of Christianity In
Iceland. New York: Peter Lang, 1999
Fletcher,
Richard. The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to
Christianity.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997
Jenkins,
Philip. God’s Continent, Christianity, Islam and Europe’s
Religious Crisis,
New York: Oxford University Press,
2007
Lindberg,
Carter. The European Reformations. Oxford; Cambridge,
MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996
Lynch, Joseph
H. The Medieval Church: A Brief History. London; New
York: Longman Group, 1992
McLeod, Hugh.
European Religion in the Age of the Great Cities, 1830-1930.
London; New
York: Routledge, 1995
Schroeder,
Roger. “Catholic Church Growing Everywhere–Except Europe,”
International Bulletin of Missionary Research 30, no.3
(July, 2006)
Ward, William
Reginald. Christianity under the Ancien Régieme.
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999
LATIN
AMERICA [including Mexico]
Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise
History of Latin
America. New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, 2001
Cleary, Edward
I. Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples,
Political Mobilization and Religious Change. New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004
Cook,
Guillermo, ed. New Face of the Church in Latin America. Maryknoll,
NY: Orbis Books, 1994
Dussel,
Enrique. A History of the Church in Latin America.
Trans. by Rev. Alan Neely. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans
Publishing Company, 1981
________, ed.
The Church in Latin America, 1492-1992. Tunbridge Wells,
Kent, England; Burns and Oates; Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books,
1992
Goodpasture, H.
McKennie. Cross and Sword: An Eyewitness History of
Christianity in
Latin America. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
Books, 1989
Ivereigh,
Austen, ed. The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival:
Studies In
Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America.
London: Institute of
Latin American Studies, 2000
MIDDLE EAST
Bennett, Clinton. In
Search of Muhammad. London and New York: Cassell, 1998
Brock, S.P.
“The ‘Nestorian’ Church: A Lamentable Misnomer,” Bulletin of
the John Rylands
Library of Manchester, no. 3 (Autumn
1996)
Cragg, Kenneth.
The Qur’an and the West. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown
University Press, 2006
Friedmann,
Johann. Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations
in the Muslim Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2003
Karsh, Efraim.
Islamic Imperialism. A History. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2006
Kofsky, Arieh
and Guy G. Strousma, eds. Sharing the Sacred: Religious
Contacts and Conflicts in the Holy Land, First-Fifteenth
Centuries C.E.
Jerusalem: Yad Ishak Ben Zvi, 1998
Khalidi, Taif,
ed. and trans. The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in
Islamic Literature. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2001
Lewis,
Bernard. The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000
Years. New York: Scribner, 1995
Maalouf, Amin.
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. Trans. Jon Rothschild.
New York: Shocken Books, 1984
Norris,
Frederick W, “Timothy I of Baghdad, Catholicos of the East
Syrian Church: Still a Valuable Model,” International
Bulletin of Missionary
Research 39, no. 3 (July, 2006)
Pacini, Andrea,
ed. Christian Communities in the Arab Middle East: The
Challenge of the
Future. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1998
Shahid, Irfan.
“Arab Christianity in Byzantine Palestine,” Aram Periodical
15 (2003), 227-37
Sharkey,
Heather J, “Arabic Antimissionary Treatises: Muslim Responses to
Christian Evangelism in the Middle East,” and “Arabic
Antimissionary Treatises: A Select Annotated Bibliography,”
International Bulletin of
Missionary Research 28,
no.3 (July, 2004)
Stark, Rodney.
The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996
Tolan, John
Victor. Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Book of
Essays. New York; London: Garland
Publishing, 1996
Trimingham, J.S.
Christianity Among the Arabs in Pre-Islamic Times.
London: Longman; Beirut: Libraire du Liban, 1979
Vaporis, N.M.,
ed. Orthodox Christians and Muslims. Brookline, MA:
Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1986
Waardenburg,
Jacques, ed. Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions: A
Historical
Survey. New York; Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1999
NORTH
AMERICA [excluding Mexico]
Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A
Religious History of the American People. New York; New
Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1972
Murphy,
Terrence, ed. and Roberto Perin, assoc. ed., A Concise
History of Christianity in Canada. Toronto; New York:
Oxford University Press, 1996
Noll, Mark A.
The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North
American
Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm.
B. Eerdmans, 2002
Oleksa,
Michael. Orthodox Alaska: A Theology of Mission.
Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1992
Robert, Dana
L. American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their
Thought And
Practice. Macon, Georgia: Mercer
University Press, 1996
Maps
Linden, Ian. A New Map of the
World. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2003
Smart, Ninian, ed. Atlas of the
World’s Religions. Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999
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