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1、WORLDCHRISTIANITIESc.1914–c.2000ThetwentiethcenturysawchangesasdramaticasanyinChristianhistory.Thechurchessufferedseriouslosses,boththroughpersecutionandthroughsecularisation,inwhathadbeenforseveralcenturiestheirEuropeanheartlands,butgrewfastinAfricaan
2、dpartsofAsia.Thisvolumeprovidesacom-prehensivehistoryofCatholicism,ProtestantismandtheIndependentchurchesinallpartsoftheworldinthecenturywhenChristianitytrulybecameaglobalreligion.Writtenbyapowerfulteamofspecialistsfrommanydifferentcountries,thevolumei
3、sbroadinscope.Thefirstpartfocusesoninstitutionsandmovementswhichhavehadaworldwideimpact,includingthepapacy,theEcumenicalmovementandPentecostalism.Thesec-ondprovidesanarrativeofChristianhistoryineachregionoftheworld.Thethirdfocusesonselectedthemesfroman
4、internationalperspective,includingchangesinworship,relationswithJewsandMuslims,scienceandthearts,genderandsexuality.HUGHMCLEODisProfessorofChurchHistoryattheUniversityofBirmingham.HispublicationsincludePietyandpoverty:workingclassreligioninBerlin,Londo
5、nandNewYork1870–1914(1996)andSecularisationinwesternEurope1848–1914(2000).HeispresidentofCIHEC,theinternationalorganisationofhistoriansofChristianity.CambridgeHistoriesOnline©CambridgeUniversityPress,2008THECAMBRIDGEHISTORYOFCHRISTIANITYTheCambridgeHis
6、toryofChristianityoffersacomprehensivechronologicalaccountofthedevelopmentofChristianityinallitsaspects–theological,intellectual,social,political,regional,global–fromitsbeginningstothepresentday.Eachvolumemakesasubstantialcontributioninitsownrighttothe
7、scholarshipofitsperiodandthecompleteHistoryconstitutesamajorworkofacademicreference.FarfrombeingmerelyahistoryofwesternEuropeanChristianityanditsoffshoots,theHistoryaimstoprovideaglobalperspective.EasternandCopticChristianityisgivenfullconsiderationfro
8、mtheearlyperiodonwards,andlater,African,FarEastern,NewWorld,SouthAsianandothernon-EuropeandevelopmentsinChristianityreceivepropercoverage.Thevolumescoverpopularpietyandnon-formalexpressionsofChristianfaithandtreatthesociologyofChristian