Christian Church

===World Christianity===
{{Main|World Christianity}}
A number of historians have noted a twentieth-century "global shift" in Christianity, from a religion largely found in Europe and the Americas to one which is found in the [[Global South|global south]].<ref name="Walls2015">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNq6BwAAQBAJ|title=Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith|date=1996|publisher=Orbis Books|isbn=978-1-60833-106-2|author=Andrew F. Walls}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://versefortheday.com/shifting-southward-global-christianity-since-1945/|title=Shifting Southward: Global Christianity Since 1945|first=Dana L.|last=Robert|pages=50–58|journal=International Bulletin of Missionary Research|date=April 2000|volume=24|issue=2|doi=10.1177/239693930002400201|s2cid=152096915}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b-hUWm88QGkC|title=The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity|last=Jenkins|first=Philip|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199767465|location=New York}}</ref> Described as "World Christianity" or "Global Christianity", this term attempts to convey the global nature of the [[Christianity|Christian]] religion. However, the term often focuses on "non-[[Western Christianity]]" which "comprises (usually the exotic) instances of Christian faith in 'the global South', in Asia, Africa and Latin America."<ref>{{cite book|page=2|title=Christianity as a World Religion|author-last1=Kim|author-first1=Sebastian|author-last2=Kim|author-first2=Kirsteen|publisher=Continuum|location=London|date=2008}}</ref> It also includes [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous]] or [[diaspora|diasporic]] forms in Western Europe and North America.<ref name="Hanciles2008">{{cite book|author=Jehu Hanciles|title=Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration, and the Transformation of the West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmCDAwAAQBAJ|year=2008|publisher=Orbis Books|isbn=978-1-60833-103-1}}</ref>