https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/UGST4154?type=COREWhile the impact of the Christian Churches has constantly declined in Europe during the last century, overall, Christianity is on the rise. Particularly in the Global South, the numbers of Christians are increasing. Pentecostalism and charismatic Christian movements, but also the Catholic Church are finding new converts around the world, at the same time as Christianity's previous (institutional) centers of gravity - Europe and the Near East - have turned either secular or Muslim. This class introduces students to the phenomenon of Global Christianities in the past and in the present: their religious foundations, their institutional settings, their histories and how they have spread around the world. The class necessarily can only offer select topics - on the historical developments of the various Christian Churches - including questions of asceticism, piety, devotion, martyrdom -, identities of Christians in various contexts, questions of conversion and colonialism as well as Christianity and globalization. It will situate different Christianities in today's world, and it is open to include also "hot"/political topics (abortion; LGBTQ+, etc.) depending on interests.