From Nairobi to the World: David B. Barrett and the Re-Imagining of World Christianity

Contents
Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
Introduction
	1 About a Man, His Book, and More
	2 Method and Sources
	3 Contents
1 From Aeronautical Engineer to Anglican Missionary
2 Missions from Nairobi to New York
	1 British Colonial Rule in Kenya
	2 The Church Missionary Society in Kenya
		2.1 The First Kenyan Anglican Bishops
	3 Mission among the Luo
	4 From Nairobi to New York: 1962
		4.1 Science and Missions
3 Applied and Academic: The Christian Roots of Scientific Research on Religion
	1 Christian Sociology
	2 Twentieth-Century American Sociology
		2.1 Protestant Theological Liberalism and the Social Gospel
		2.2 Mainline Protestant Missions
		2.3 First Period of American Sociology: 1890s–1920s
		2.4 Changes in the Social Gospel and Christian Sociology: The 1920s
		2.5 Scientific American Sociology: The 1960s
	3 Translating to East Africa
		3.1 Schism and Renewal in Africa
4 Global Methodology, Developed in New York
	1 Theology of Enumeration
	2 Source Material
	3 Comparative Statistics
	4 Taxonomy and Classification
	5 Methodological Critique
		5.1 Lack of Consideration of Age and Sex
		5.2 Audience
	6 From New York to Nairobi: 1965
		6.1 Challenging Secularization Theory from Africa
5 A New Missionary Commissioning: New York to Nairobi
	1 Founding the Unit of Research
	2 Trouble for the Unit of Research
6 Global Research on Religion: From Popular to Scholarly
	1 Setting the Stage: Cast of Characters
	2 The Task at Hand: World Christian Handbook, 6th Edition
	2.1 Division of Labor
		2.2 Immediate Conflict
	3 Expanded Vision of the WCH
		3.1 Difficult Nature of Statistics
		3.2 Logistics of Data Gathering
		3.3 Barrett’s Expanded Vision of the World Christian Handbook
		3.4 Losing the French Edition
		3.5 Louvain’s Expanded Vision of the World Christian Handbook
		3.6 Publisher and Printer Issues
		3.7 Financial Problems
		3.8 Other Reasons for Delay
	4 Advances in Technology
		4.1 Data Banks
		4.2 Collaboration
		4.3 World Vision International
		4.4 Problems in Data Processing
		4.5 The Wang Computer
	5 From Handbook to Encyclopedia
7 The World Christian Encyclopedia: Christianity in 223 Countries
	1 Survey: Christianity in 223 Countries
	2 Major Findings of the World Christian Encyclopedia
		2.1 Diversity and Fragmentation of World Christianity
		2.2 Traditional Religions
		2.3 Atheism and Agnosticism
	3 Reception of the World Christian Encyclopedia
	4 Strengths of the World Christian Encyclopedia
		4.1 Answered Previously Unknown Questions
		4.2 Extensive Travel
		4.3 Counting Atheists
		4.4 New Computer Technology
	5 Weaknesses of the World Christian Encyclopedia
		5.1 Data Skepticism
		5.2 Too Complicated
		5.3 Missing Credits
		5.4 The End of Barrett in Africa
8 Re-imagining Christianity from East Africa to the World
	1 Shifting Understandings of World Christianity
		1.1 World Christianity before the World Christian Encyclopedia
		1.2 “World Christianity” in the World Christian Encyclopedia
	2 Why the World Christian Encyclopedia?
	3 Considering Barrett’s Vision
Afterword
Appendix: Brief Biographical Timeline of David B. Barrett
Bibliography
Index