1. Quiz 1. Pentecostalism and Charismatic faith:
A. Are declining relics of Northern Christianity
B. have grown at explosive rates across the global South in recent decades.
C. renounce practices such as faith healing and speaking in tongues
D. have grown most dramatically in Europe
2. Name a distinctive of feature of religion in the next Christendom.

2. For Friday 1. How is “Southern” Christianity distinctive? Chap. 6
2. Why is it appealing in the “Global South?”
Chaps 4 and 6
3. God’s Century, Secularization Theory (lecture version and Norris/Inglehart) version, and The Next Christendom all make predictions about the fate of religion in the contemporary world. To what extent are these predictions compatible? Where do they conflict?

4. Religious Adherents as % of World Population 2000

5. Religious Trends (In Millions)

6. % of World Population

7. Christianity Worldwide

8. Number of Christians

9. % of World’s Christians

10. Number of Pentecostals by Region 2000 Based on a low end estimate of Pentecostal numbers (115 million). Some estimates put the number over 600 million, with 19 million new members added per year.

11. Pentecostalism Worldwide

12. Pentecostals/Charismatics/Neo-Charismatics (In Millions)

13. Pentecostalists/Charismatics by Country

14. For discussion--
Do the trends described in the preceding slides and in The Next Christendom disprove secularization theory?