The Wiley Blackwell Companion To World Christianity

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity presents a collection of essays that explore a range of topics relating to the rise, spread, and influence of Christianity throughout the world.

• Features contributions from renowned scholars of history and religion from around the world
• Addresses the origins and global expansion of Christianity over the course of two millennia
• Covers a wide range of themes relating to Christianity, including women, worship, sacraments, music, visual arts, architecture, and many more
• Explores the development of Christian traditions over the past two centuries across several continents and the rise in secularization

Lamin Sanneh is the D. Willis James Professor of World Christianity and of History at Yale University. He is the author of more than 200 articles and a dozen books on Islam and Christianity.

Michael McClymond is Professor of Modern Christianity at Saint Louis University. He is the author ofFamiliar Stranger: An Introduction to Jesus of Nazareth (2004), editor of The Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America (2007), and co-author of The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (2012).