World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Study of Churches and Religions in the Modern World, AD 1900-2000David B. Barrett Oxford University Press, 1982 - 1010 pagini This work systematically describes, in fourteen sections, the extent, status, and characteristics of the Christian religion, its 150 major ecclesiastical traditions and 20,800 distinct denominations, dioceses, jurisdictions, missions, assemblies, and fellowships. Fully ecumenical in its presentation, the book treats Christianity in the context of all the great world religions, and the so-called "new religions", as well as atheism, agnosticism, secularism, and Marxism. |
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In Part 1 STATUS | 1 |
Middle East | 5 |
Global Table | 7 |
In Part 8 STATISTICS | 13 |
Global Table | 19 |
CHRONOLOGY | 21 |
Republic | 26 |
METHODOLOGY | 37 |
BENIN The Peoples Republic | 175 |
STATISTICS | 773 |
Global Table 25 The worlds 17 races and 432 major ethnolinguistic peoples ranked | 790 |
498 | 798 |
779 | 804 |
DICTIONARY | 813 |
781 | 824 |
782 | 833 |
CULTURE | 105 |
EVANGELIZATION | 117 |
Global Table 24 | 120 |
CODEBOOK | 123 |
SURVEY | 131 |
Admiralty Islands under Papua New Guinea | 133 |
ARGENTINA The Argentine Republic | 147 |
AUSTRIA The Republic of | 157 |
BAHRAIN The State | 163 |
BELGIUM The Kingdom | 169 |
796 | 840 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 857 |
ATLAS | 863 |
WHOS | 885 |
DIRECTORY | 893 |
865 | 957 |
866 | 963 |
867 | 973 |
INDEXES | 979 |
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