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 August 2025).
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Editor
GINA A. ZURLO, PH.D.
Gina A. Zurlo, Ph.D. is a Visiting Research Fellow at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion
and World Affairs, where she edits the World Religion Database (Brill). She is also a Research Associate
in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School (Cambridge, MA, USA). Her research interests include sociology
of religion, history, and gender studies. 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 quantifying the religious future.