Entangling Web: The Fractious Story of Christianity in Europe - Paperbackby Alec Ryrie (Editor), Mark A. Lamport (Editor), Brian Stanley (Introduction by) Europe has a tremendously important role in the history of Christianity and was the continent with the most Christians from roughly the year 900 to 1980. However, Europe is now home to only 22 percent of all Christians in the world, down from 68 percent in 1900. The major trend of European religion in the twentieth and twenty first centuries has been secularization