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The question of who qualifies as an Evangelical and how many Evangelicals exist worldwide continues to puzzle scholars, church leaders and mission researchers alike.

That was the central theme of a Sept. 2 webinar hosted by the World Evangelical Alliance and released publicly Sept. 5, featuring two leading voices in global religious demography.

Dr. Gina A. Zurlo, editor of the World Christian Database and a lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, and Jason Mandryk, longtime editor of Operation World, outlined both the difficulties and the necessity of measuring a movement that is increasingly diverse and shifting rapidly toward the Global South.

Both experts agreed that unlike Catholicism, Orthodoxy or even Pentecostalism, evangelicalism has no universally agreed-upon defini

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