The Lopsided Spread of Christianity: Toward an Understanding of the Diffusion of Religions, by ROBERT L. MONTGOMERY. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002, 208pp.; $87.95 USD (cloth).
Early Christianity began along the eastern Mediterranean seaboard, in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Judea. Christian religion soon spread far beyond that region, moving into much of the Roman Empire and well outside of the imperial boundaries. However, the spread of Christianity was not symmetrical; ...