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Section sizes

Section size for History of Christianity (84 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,168	5,168
Origins to 312	5,456	18,052
Mission in primitive Christianity	1,365	1,365
Early geographical spread	5,592	5,592
Early beliefs and practices	2,636	5,639
Heresy	731	731
Church hierarchy	742	742
New Testament	1,530	1,530
Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages (313–600)	3,551	21,226
Influence of Constantine	2,780	8,792
Relations with polytheists	4,604	4,604
Relations with the Jews	1,408	1,408
Regional conversions (300–600)	606	7,445
In France	148	148
In Ireland	287	287
In Britain	575	575
Monks and hospitals	817	817
Councils and Eastern churches	3,749	3,749
Asia	1,263	1,263
Rome, Justinian, pentarchy	1,438	1,438
Early Middle Ages (600–1000)	2,444	17,480
Monasticism	2,000	2,000
Papal supremacy	1,842	1,842
Regional developments (600–1100)	384	11,194
In Spain	1,217	1,217
In France	327	327
In Italy	860	860
In Eastern Europe	3,880	3,880
In Byzantium	1,783	1,783
In Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Armenia	2,743	2,743
High Middle Ages (1000–1300)	1,619	23,495
Monks and missions	1,560	5,785
Scandinavia	547	547
Science, Scholasticism and Renaissance	1,733	1,733
Education	1,945	1,945
The Church in Confrontation	34	16,091
With the state	3,313	3,313
With Islam	4,104	5,079
In Mesopotamia and Egypt	975	975
With heretics	1,048	1,048
In Inquisition	1,903	1,903
With pagans	1,345	1,345
With the East	1,058	1,058
With the Jews	2,311	2,311
Late Middle Ages (1300–1500)	2,754	16,308
Western Church and society	1,063	7,524
Avignon	4,004	4,004
The Jewish people	2,457	2,457
Byzantium and the Fall of Constantinople	2,907	2,907
Russia	2,728	2,728
Asia	395	395
Reformation and Early modern (1500–1750)	890	11,983
Reformation and response (1517–1700)	2,352	7,546
Counter-reformation	1,688	1,688
Religious War	2,320	2,320
Modern concepts of tolerance	1,186	1,186
Colonialism	1,538	1,538
Witch trials ()	1,193	1,193
The Enlightenment	816	816
Revolution and modernity (1750–1945)	1,007	17,574
Church, state and society	2,169	6,618
Awakenings (1730s–1850s)	3,245	3,245
Western Slavery	1,204	1,204
Protestant Missions (1800s–1945)	2,002	2,002
Twentieth-century	1,995	7,947
Christianity and Nazism	2,510	2,510
Russian Orthodoxy	3,442	3,442
Christianity since 1945	1,865	14,437
New forms	3,468	3,468
Post-colonial decolonization after 1945	570	2,202
Missions	414	414
Second Vatican Council (1962–1965)	472	472
Ecumenism (1964)	746	746
Christianity in the Global South and East	473	3,698
Africa (19th–21st centuries)	2,344	2,344
Asia	881	881
Persecution	3,204	3,204
See also	753	753
Notes	26	26
References	33	33
Sources	12	138,751
Books & periodicals	123,888	123,888
Encyclopedia & web sources	14,851	14,851
External links	2,426	2,426
Total	287,712	287,712

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