The next Christendom : the coming of global Christianity In looking back over the enormous changes wrought by the twentieth century Western observers may have missed the most dramatic revolution of all. While secular movements like communism feminism and environmentalism have gotten the lions share of our attention the explosive southward expansion of Christianity in Africa Asia and Latin America has barely registered on Western consciousness. Nor has the globalization of Christianity and the enormous religious political and social consequences it portends been properly understood. Philip Jenkins The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity is the first book to take the full measure of the changing face of the Christian faith. Jenkins asserts that by the year 2050 only one Christian in five will be a non Latino white person and that the center of gravity of the Christian world will have shifted firmly to the Southern Hemisphere. BOOK JACKET