Various terminologies are employed by scholars to describe World Christianity such as ‘Global Christianity’ (Philip Jenkins), or ‘World Christianity’ (Lamin Sanneh). Lamin Sanneh has argued that ‘Global Christianity’ perpetuates the idea of exportation and imposition of European cultural informed Christianity through the mechanisms of economic globalization and colonization. This course is an exploration of Christianity’s story  with a primary focus on the processes of cross-cultural transmission and the critical elements that have defined the experience and expression of the faith in successive heartlands.