Christianity at the Crossroads: The Global Church from the Print Revolution to the Digital Era

Harvard HDS

Most of the writing on the history of Christianity is organized around national histories and religious denominations or traditions. By contrast, this course aims to build on work by historians of all kinds, not just historians of religion, suggesting that traditional explanations of religious, social, and cultural change have undervalued the role of international networks and transnational encounters in shaping the dynamics of religious change and innovation. By looking at a selection of…