About The World Religion Database
Citing the database
When citing the database please use the following form for a general citation:
Gina A. Zurlo. World Religion Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025).
Specific citation
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Gina A. Zurlo. World Religion Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, accessed February 2025).
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Editor
GINA A. ZURLO, PH.D.
Gina A. Zurlo is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity and her research focuses
on World Christianity, sociology of religion, and women’s studies. She is
also a Visiting Research Fellow at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs,
where she edits the World Religion Database (Brill). Her most recent books include Global Christianity:
A Guide to the World’s Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (Zondervan Academic, 2022), Women in
World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), and From Nairobi
to the World: David B. Barrett and the Re-Imagining of World Christianity (Brill, 2023). She was named
one of the BBC’s 100 most inspiring and influential women of 2019 for her work in quantifying the
religious future. She is a Yang Visiting Scholar of World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School in
2023–2024.