The Encyclopedia of Christianity Volume 5 (Si-Z)

<B>Series:</B><a href=http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/CategoryCenter.aspx?CategoryId=SE!EC> The Encyclopedia of Christianity (EC)</a><BR /><BR />Volume 5 of the <I>EC</I> contains 295 articles constituting the alphabetical entries Si–Z -- articles on significant topics ranging from sin spiritual direction Sufism and terrorism to Vatican I and II Vineyard Christian Fellowship World Alliance of Reformed Churches and Zionism. Like each volume in the complete <I>EC</I> this book incorporates many enhancements of and additions to the third revised edition of the German <I>Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon: Internationale theologische Enzyklopädie</I> on which the <I>EC</I> is based. Among the features of this English work are the following:<ul><li>articles on all but the smallest countries of the world including former communist states that have gained their independence since 1989;</li><li>the latest best statistical information compiled by David B. Barrett on the religious affiliation and ecclesiastical breakdown of each country and continent;</li><li>the addition of over seventy biographical articles on prominent figures throughout church history;</li><li>many expanded or entirely new articles that address topics of particular interest to English-speaking readers.Unparalleled in scholarship and breadth of content the <I>Encyclopedia of Christianity</I> will long serve as the standard reference work for the study of Christianity in the past and the present -- and its trajectory into the future.</li></ul>