Gina A Zurlo
Biographic Data
| ID | 713046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gina A Zurlo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gina A |
| FAMILY NAME | Zurlo |
| SIGNATURE | ZURLO G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2767-3796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
World Christianity 2026: Anticipating the Future
This article represents the 42nd year of providing annual statistics in the International Bulletin of Mission Research . This year’s article highlights new future projections to the year 2075. Major findings of the 2075 data include the continuation of Christianity’s shift to the Global South, the increased importance of Christian-Muslim relations in light of the latter’s increasing share of the world’s population, and the Demographic Republic of…
How Many Evangelicals in the World? A New Assessment from the World Christian Database
The question of “who is an Evangelical” has occupied historians and social scientists with renewed urgency in the last 10 years. As Evangelical churches and international organizations have increasingly recognized the rise of a global South majority, they have also expressed a growing interest in accurately assessing the size and composition of this movement. This paper operationalizes Evangelicalism for the twenty-first century by analyzing demo…
World Christianity 2025: Regional Perspectives
This article marks the 41st year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the IBMR. This year’s focus is geographical, covering major religious trends in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Northern America, and Oceania over the last 125 years. This year’s article includes the Middle East, which is formed by countries in Northern Africa and Western Asia. In 2025, the Global South is home to 69% of all Christians …
Women, leadership, and movements: A critical look at the past, present, and future
New indigenous movements to Christ are taking place in many parts of the world today, especially in Asia and Africa, generally described as church-planting movements or disciple-making movements. There is significant diversity among these movements in terms of their origins, worship, practices, and languages. Movement leaders have come to different conclusions about the most appropriate ministry roles for women. Although it is impossible to know …
World Christianity 2024: Fragmentation and Unity
This article marks the 40th year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the International Bulletin of Mission Research. This year’s focus is on organizations that address the global fragmentation of Christianity by promoting dialogue among Christians. We identify here some of the larger umbrella organizations that seek to represent or bring together portions of four traditions (Catholics, Independents, Orthodox,…
Gender Gaps in World Christianity: Membership, Participation, and Leadership
This article presents findings from recent research that nuances gender gaps in World Christianity utilizing quantitative data on religious membership, participation, and leadership. The article outlines the assumptions and theories undergirding this project on global gender inequalities by utilizing data from the United Nations and World Economic Forum. It then presents original research that produced gendered data on church membership, particip…
World Christianity 2023: A Gendered Approach
This article marks the 39th year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the International Bulletin of Mission Research. This year’s focus is on women in World Christianity, highlighting results of the Women in World Christianity Project from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (2019–2021). Although women make up the majority in Christian congregations worldwide, massive data gaps still exist that hin…
Introduction to the Special IBMR Issue on the World Christian Encyclopedia , 3rd Edition
Forty years ago, David B. Barrett, then based in Nairobi, Kenya, put the finishing touches on the first edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia. A second edition was produced in 2001, and now a third edition is in circulation, prepared between 2015 and 2019. This special issue of the IBMR reflects a core part of the methodology of the World Christian Encyclopedia, namely, interaction with World Christianity from different disciplinary perspec…
World Christianity and Religions 2022: A Complicated Relationship
This article marks the thirty-eighth year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the International Bulletin of Mission Research. This year it includes details on the growth of world religions, increasing religious diversity, and personal contact between Christians and people of other religions. The world is becoming more religious, and the world’s countries have become more religiously diverse, yet Christians ha…
Between Healthcare Practitioners and Clergy: Evangelicals and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Evangelical Christians are among the most hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine. This study examined the extent to which COVID-19 vaccination uptake among Evangelicals is explained by demographic characteristics, Health Belief Model constructs, and faith-based support factors. Survey research firm Qualtrics recruited 531 U.S. adults and conducted a survey to explore predictors of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among people who self-identified as Evangeli…
World Christianity and Mission 2021: Questions about the Future
This article marks the thirty-seventh year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the International Bulletin of Mission Research. This year it includes details on some of the most frequently asked questions in quantifying mission and global Christianity: the number of missionaries worldwide, global access to the gospel, and the burgeoning Pentecostal/Charismatic movement. The article also provides brief methodol…
Religions and Social Progress: Critical Assessments and Creative Partnerships
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Christianity 2018: More African Christians and Counting Martyrs
This article features five statistical tables with 2018 figures for many aspects of global Christianity, from membership to finance to martyrdom. Over the last 1,000 years, Europe had more Christians than any other continent. By 2018 Africa had the most Christians: 599 million, vs. 597 million in Latin America and 550 million in Europe. At the same time, Christianity continues to decline in the Middle East, falling from 13.6 percent of the popula…
Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2018
The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill),…
Christianity 2017: Five Hundred Years of Protestant Christianity
Throughout 2017, Protestants around the world will celebrate five hundred years of history. Although for several centuries the Protestant movement was based in Europe, then North America, from its Western homelands it eventually spread all over the world. In 2017 there are 560 million Protestants found in nearly all the world’s 234 countries. Of these 560 million, only 16 percent are in Europe, with 41 percent in Africa, a figure projected to rea…
Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2015
The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill),…
The Social Gospel, Ecumenical Movement, and Christian Sociology: The Institute of Social and Religious Research
Embezzlement in the Global Christian Community
In 2015, an estimated USD 50 billion will likely be stolen from money that Christians give to churches, para-church organizations, and secular organizations all over the world. Understanding embezz
Christian Martyrdom as a Pervasive Phenomenon
The Social Gospel, Ecumenical Movement, and Christian Sociology: The Institute of Social and Religious Research
Christian Martyrdom as a Pervasive Phenomenon
Gender Gaps in World Christianity: Membership, Participation, and Leadership
This article presents findings from recent research that nuances gender gaps in World Christianity utilizing quantitative data on religious membership, participation, and leadership. The article outlines the assumptions and theories undergirding this project on global gender inequalities by utilizing data from the United Nations and World Economic Forum. It then presents original research that produced gendered data on church membership, particip…
Christian Martyrdom as a Pervasive Phenomenon
Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2015
The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill),…
The Social Gospel, Ecumenical Movement, and Christian Sociology: The Institute of Social and Religious Research
Embezzlement in the Global Christian Community
In 2015, an estimated USD 50 billion will likely be stolen from money that Christians give to churches, para-church organizations, and secular organizations all over the world. Understanding embezz
Christianity 2017: Five Hundred Years of Protestant Christianity
Throughout 2017, Protestants around the world will celebrate five hundred years of history. Although for several centuries the Protestant movement was based in Europe, then North America, from its Western homelands it eventually spread all over the world. In 2017 there are 560 million Protestants found in nearly all the world’s 234 countries. Of these 560 million, only 16 percent are in Europe, with 41 percent in Africa, a figure projected to rea…
Religions and Social Progress: Critical Assessments and Creative Partnerships
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Christianity 2018: More African Christians and Counting Martyrs
This article features five statistical tables with 2018 figures for many aspects of global Christianity, from membership to finance to martyrdom. Over the last 1,000 years, Europe had more Christians than any other continent. By 2018 Africa had the most Christians: 599 million, vs. 597 million in Latin America and 550 million in Europe. At the same time, Christianity continues to decline in the Middle East, falling from 13.6 percent of the popula…
Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2018
The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill),…
World Christianity and Mission 2021: Questions about the Future
This article marks the thirty-seventh year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the International Bulletin of Mission Research. This year it includes details on some of the most frequently asked questions in quantifying mission and global Christianity: the number of missionaries worldwide, global access to the gospel, and the burgeoning Pentecostal/Charismatic movement. The article also provides brief methodol…
Introduction to the Special IBMR Issue on the World Christian Encyclopedia , 3rd Edition
Forty years ago, David B. Barrett, then based in Nairobi, Kenya, put the finishing touches on the first edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia. A second edition was produced in 2001, and now a third edition is in circulation, prepared between 2015 and 2019. This special issue of the IBMR reflects a core part of the methodology of the World Christian Encyclopedia, namely, interaction with World Christianity from different disciplinary perspec…
World Christianity and Religions 2022: A Complicated Relationship
This article marks the thirty-eighth year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the International Bulletin of Mission Research. This year it includes details on the growth of world religions, increasing religious diversity, and personal contact between Christians and people of other religions. The world is becoming more religious, and the world’s countries have become more religiously diverse, yet Christians ha…
Between Healthcare Practitioners and Clergy: Evangelicals and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Evangelical Christians are among the most hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine. This study examined the extent to which COVID-19 vaccination uptake among Evangelicals is explained by demographic characteristics, Health Belief Model constructs, and faith-based support factors. Survey research firm Qualtrics recruited 531 U.S. adults and conducted a survey to explore predictors of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among people who self-identified as Evangeli…
World Christianity 2023: A Gendered Approach
This article marks the 39th year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the International Bulletin of Mission Research. This year’s focus is on women in World Christianity, highlighting results of the Women in World Christianity Project from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (2019–2021). Although women make up the majority in Christian congregations worldwide, massive data gaps still exist that hin…
World Christianity 2024: Fragmentation and Unity
This article marks the 40th year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the International Bulletin of Mission Research. This year’s focus is on organizations that address the global fragmentation of Christianity by promoting dialogue among Christians. We identify here some of the larger umbrella organizations that seek to represent or bring together portions of four traditions (Catholics, Independents, Orthodox,…
Gender Gaps in World Christianity: Membership, Participation, and Leadership
This article presents findings from recent research that nuances gender gaps in World Christianity utilizing quantitative data on religious membership, participation, and leadership. The article outlines the assumptions and theories undergirding this project on global gender inequalities by utilizing data from the United Nations and World Economic Forum. It then presents original research that produced gendered data on church membership, particip…
World Christianity 2025: Regional Perspectives
This article marks the 41st year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the IBMR. This year’s focus is geographical, covering major religious trends in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Northern America, and Oceania over the last 125 years. This year’s article includes the Middle East, which is formed by countries in Northern Africa and Western Asia. In 2025, the Global South is home to 69% of all Christians …
Women, leadership, and movements: A critical look at the past, present, and future
New indigenous movements to Christ are taking place in many parts of the world today, especially in Asia and Africa, generally described as church-planting movements or disciple-making movements. There is significant diversity among these movements in terms of their origins, worship, practices, and languages. Movement leaders have come to different conclusions about the most appropriate ministry roles for women. Although it is impossible to know …
World Christianity 2026: Anticipating the Future
This article represents the 42nd year of providing annual statistics in the International Bulletin of Mission Research . This year’s article highlights new future projections to the year 2075. Major findings of the 2075 data include the continuation of Christianity’s shift to the Global South, the increased importance of Christian-Muslim relations in light of the latter’s increasing share of the world’s population, and the Demographic Republic of…
How Many Evangelicals in the World? A New Assessment from the World Christian Database
The question of “who is an Evangelical” has occupied historians and social scientists with renewed urgency in the last 10 years. As Evangelical churches and international organizations have increasingly recognized the rise of a global South majority, they have also expressed a growing interest in accurately assessing the size and composition of this movement. This paper operationalizes Evangelicalism for the twenty-first century by analyzing demo…
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