This three-volume reference work provides a history of Christianity in a global context from 1500 through the twentieth century with the aim of charting “the impact, for good and for ill, of the Christian movement on the demographic, cultural, social, and political course of world history” (forward, vol I, ix). The volumes are divided chronologically, with the first spanning the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and focusing on conflicts and crises within European Christianity, Russian Orthodoxy, and the expansion of European Christianity into new regions through missions, exploration, trade, and conquest. The second volume assess the global development of Christianity during the “long nineteenth century”—from the French Revolution of 1789 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914—and considers how the philosophical, political, and social dynamics of modernity shaped the tradition in diverse areas around the world. The final volume covers the twentieth century and is divided into sections addressing major historical turning points for Christian communities, themes and issues with which twentieth-century Christians grappled, and various expressions of Christian faith in different geographies across the globe. Each volume contains a very helpful introduction to the period, topics, tensions, and questions covered in the essays that follow; as well as a conclusion that synthesizes the connections across the various contributions. History of Global Christianity is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the development of this religious tradition around the world over the past five centuries. While several textbooks and source anthologies that consider Christianity in its global context now exist, this edited collection of essays stands out as a comprehensive reference work that draws on and integrates the wide-ranging expertise of more than thirty international scholars of African, American, Asian, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern background.