Christianity: A Very Short Introduction

by Linda Woodhead Author

This Very Short Introduction offers a candid and wide-ranging overview of the worlds largest religion. Linda Woodhead distinguishes three main types of Christianity -- Church, Biblical, and Mystical -- and examines their struggles with one another and with wider society. Steering away from an idealistic approach, this introduction considers Christianity's relations with worldly power and its attempts to achieve social, political, economic, and cultural dominance. It sheds new light on Christianity's changing fortunes, and helps explain why a religion that is currently growing in much of the southern hemisphere is struggling to survive in parts of the West.