Spread of Christianity

Christianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the 1st century in the Roman province of Judea, from where it spread throughout and beyond the Roman Empire.

Quotes

 * Christianity spreads in two ways: through conversion and through secularisation.
 * S. N. Balagangadhara, in Bloch, Keppens and Hegde, p. 144. quoted from   Tom Holland - Dominion_ The Making of the Western Mind-Little, Brown (2019)
 * Bloch, Esther, Marianne Keppens and Rajaram Hegde (eds): Rethinking Religion in India: The Colonial Construction of Hinduism (London, 2010)