The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity Philip Jenkins There is a two-fold purpose to this book. First, that in 2050, Christianity will still be the world’s largest religion. The book cover gives this statistic “in Africa alone, the number of Christians increased from ten million in 1900 to 360 million in 2000”. And the growth rates in Latin America are parallel, with large rates of conversion in Asia. His second thrust is that these church’s in the Global south a...