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 November 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 Senior Researcher and Lecturer
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.