The World's Christians Renaissance History Even if it hurts you

Even if it hurts you

from Victorian sex scandals to the "permissive society" of the 1960s

From classical figures such as Avicenna to the twentieth-century Sufi master and teacher of tolerance Tierno Bokar Salif Tall

in search of a simpler

his investigation of coups-updated for the twenty-first century-uncovers important truths about the nature of political power

The World's Christians Renaissance History Even if it hurts you"Douglas Jacobsen has written a remarkably thoughtful, insightful, lively and near comprehensive account of the sprawling, vivid, internally plural and wildly complex phenomenon of world Christianity. For students of politics, culture, development and conflictfor anyone interested in the evolution and prospects of the hundreds of Christian influenced or inflected societies around the worldThe World's Christians is indispensable." R. Scott Appleby,