Research centres of three different Christian traditions on three continents produced the first edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia in the 1960s and 1970s: the Unit of Research of the Church of the Province of Kenya (Nairobi, Kenya; Anglican); the International Federation of Institutes for Socio-Religious Research (FERES; Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Catholic); and the Missions Advanced Research and Communication Center (MARC; Monrovia, California, USA; nondenominational Evangelical Protestant). David B. Ba…