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previous chapter | next chapter | contents Margaret Bendroth is the Executive Director of the Congregational Library in Boston, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on American religious history. She was the President of the American Society of Church History. Martin Dreher is Professor of History at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brasil. He researches the history of colonisation and immigration in Latin America.

German edition | next chapter | contents The origin of these three volumes on the history of Christianity since the 16th Century Reformation was the necessity of augmenting the well-known series published by the Kohlhammer Verlag in Stuttgart, Germany, “ Religionen der Menschheit,” the Religions of Humankind. From the point of view of the contributors to these volumes, the substance and general approach of the books was the product of serious study and interaction with one another.…