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...volume opens with a global analysis of Christianity, a chronology of 1,300 key events in the spread of the Christian faith since A.D. 27, and a 66-page explanation of Barrett's methods and definitions. It also offers a dictionary of terms, a Who's Who, and a comprehensive list of names and addresses of religious agencies under 76 categories. Interspersed with all that are 31 tables of global statistics, some of which cover a time span from A.D. 30 to the year 2000. Here one can discover, for instance, the number of literate and nonliterate Christians...
There are, he insists, many more Christians in the world than meet the eye. He cites the example of the Soviet Union, where his project coincided with an official Kremlin survey on the spread of atheism. Surprisingly, he won top-level clearance to work closely with Communist Party researchers, who turned out to be scrupulously objective in collecting data. The resulting estimates: 137 million Soviets are irreligious, but an impressive 97 million remain Christian. There, as elsewhere, Barrett found masses of members known only to the churches. Worldwide there appear to be 70 million so-called crypto-Christians. Even...
...actually starved to death in the worsening Depression, MacLeish wrote an impassioned refutation in FORTUNE, where he was a founding writer. It was his mission, as he saw it, to speak out on all contemporary causes: for Roosevelt's New Deal, for the Spanish Republic, against the spread of Nazism. "The victories of tyrants and the resistance of peoples halfway around the world," he wrote in 1939, "are as near as the ticking of the clock on the mantel...
More predictably, the right-leaning Wall Street Journal has lambasted Schell as "destructive of serious thought about how to prevent war and control the spread of nuclear arms." Especially ludicrous, the paper says, is his call for "nothing less than to reinvent politics." Cracks the Journal: "Like...
...SOLUTION WAS to reopen the lines of City Hall-to-neighborhood communication first used by the now neglected little city halls. White realized that every decision taken on such local levels has political implications, the touch is to make the decisions spread the mayor's political capital most effectively. It's a process whereby White's political operatives convince people the mayor is looking out for their special interests and the mayor's workers keep in touch with the pulse of the electorate...