@article {Spomer:2014:1525-4011:58,
title = "World Christian Database",
journal = "The Charleston Advisor",
parent_itemid = "infobike://annurev/tca",
publishercode ="annurev",
year = "2014",
volume = "15",
number = "3",
publication date ="2014-01-01T00:00:00",
pages = "58-61",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1525-4011",
eissn = "1525-4003",
url = "https://annurev.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/annurev/tca/2014/00000015/00000003/art00018",
doi = "doi:10.5260/chara.15.3.58",
author = "Spomer, Michelle",
abstract = "The World Christian Database (WCD) provides extensive information on 9,000 Christian denominations and on religions in 238 countries and 13,000 ethno-linguistic peoples, as well as on 5,000 cities and 3,000 provinces. Religious data and statistics include
religious activities, growth rates, religious literature, worker activity, and demography, and secular data and statistics include demographic information, such as population, health, education, languages, and communication. WCD data can be sorted and customized, and data tables can be printed
and exported into Excel. Even though navigation and searching can be a struggle, WCD has such impressive and unique content that it would be recommended for institutions with sociology, history, and religion programs.",
}