Here's some great bedtime reading if you have a spare $300 floating around in your pockets
ChristianityToday.com - Books & Culture - Divided We Grow World Christian Encyclopedia
edited by David B. Barrett, George T. Kurian, and Todd M. Johnson
Oxford Univ. Press, 2001
1,699 pp., 2 vols.; $295
"The second edition of David Barrett's World Christian Encyclopedia is one of the richest and most original compilations of human data produced at the turn of the millennium. In two oversized volumes and 1,699 pages of fine print, this work seeks to count the number of human beings in every religion on Earth in the year 2000?and to provide comparative figures back to 1900 and projections to 2025.
This work represents a massive expansion of the single-volume first edition, which appeared in 1982."
ChristianityToday.com - Books & Culture - Divided We Grow World Christian Encyclopedia
edited by David B. Barrett, George T. Kurian, and Todd M. Johnson
Oxford Univ. Press, 2001
1,699 pp., 2 vols.; $295
"The second edition of David Barrett's World Christian Encyclopedia is one of the richest and most original compilations of human data produced at the turn of the millennium. In two oversized volumes and 1,699 pages of fine print, this work seeks to count the number of human beings in every religion on Earth in the year 2000?and to provide comparative figures back to 1900 and projections to 2025.
This work represents a massive expansion of the single-volume first edition, which appeared in 1982."
