Lausanne Movement

Todd M. Johnson, Ph.D.
Research Fellow in the Study of Global Christianity
Director, Center for the Study of Global Christianity
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Johnson is Research Fellow in the Study of Global Christianity and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. In this position he does research on the status of Christianity and world religions in every people, language, city, and country. The Center’s statistics have been widely quoted in the media (recently ABC, BBC, Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today). Johnson has a Ph.D. in International Development from William Carey International University in Pasadena, CA. His concentration was developing quantitative tools to analyze the past, present, and future of global Christianity.

Johnson is co-author (with David Barrett and George T. Kurian) of the second edition of the World Christian encyclopedia (Oxford University Press 2001, 1,700 pages) and World Christian trends (William Carey Library 2001, 950 pages). He is editor of the World Christian Database located at www.worldchristiandatabase.org. He is an annual contributor of religious demographics to Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Book of the Year and International Bulletin of Missionary Research. He has also recently contributed statistical tables on religion to Religions of the World, (4 Volumes, ABC Clio), Lexikon fur Theologie und Kirche, (Verlag Herder), New international dictionary of Pentecostal/Charismatic movements, (Zondervan), Religion in Geschichte und Gengenwart, 4^th edition. (Mohr Siebeck) and Encyclopedia of Protestantism, (Routledge).