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 Senior Researcher and Lecturer 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.