The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has just released its Global Survey of Evangelical Protestant Leaders. This study is very important because evangelicalism is changing rapidly around the world and the consequences of this not only for world religions, but also world politics, are potentially enormous.

As the evangelical movement has spread around the world in the past century, it has become enormously diverse. Does it even make sense to talk of “a” movement when that movement includes Anglicans in Africa, Baptists in Russia, house churches in China and Pentecostals in Latin America? What impact should evangelicalism have on politics in these different countries and worldwide? And what of the differences between the “Global North” and the “Global South”?

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