About The World Christian Database
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Gina A. Zurlo, ed. World Christian Database (Brill, 2025).
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Editor
GINA A. ZURLO, PH.D.
Gina A. Zurlo is a Research Associate in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School (Cambridge, MA, USA).
Her research interests include World Christianity, history, sociology of religion, and gender studies.
She is the co-author with Todd M. Johnson of the World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd edition (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).
She has recently authored three books: Global Christianity: A Guide to the World’s Largest Religion from Afghanistan
to Zimbabwe (Zondervan Academic, 2022); Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023);
and From Nairobi to the World: David B. Barrett and the Re-Imagining of World Christianity (Brill, 2023).
She was named one of the BBC’s 100 most inspiring and influential women of 2019 for her work quantifying religion
and non-religion worldwide.