Brian Stanley (historian)

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Stanley, Brian (1990). The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Mission and British Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Leicester: Apollos. ISBN   9780851114125.
  • Stanley, Brian (1992). The History of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792-1992. London: T&T Clark. ISBN   9780567096142.
  • Stanley, Brian; Ward, Kevin, eds. (2000). The Church Mission Society and World Christianity 1799-1999. Grand Rapids, MI and Surrey: Eerdmans and Curzon Press. ISBN   9781136830969.
  • Stanley, Brian, ed. (2001). Christian Missions and the Enlightenment. London and New York: Eerdmans and Curzon Press. ISBN   9781136865541.
  • Stanley, Brian; Low, Alaine, eds. (2004). Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN   9780802821164.
  • Stanley, Brian; Gilley, Sheridan, eds. (2006). The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol 8, World Christianities, c. 1815 - c. 1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9781139053952.
  • Stanley, Brian (2009). The World Missionary Conference: Edinburgh 1910. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN   9780802863607.
  • Stanley, Brian (2013). The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press. ISBN   9780830825851.
  • Becker, Judith; Stanley, Brian, eds. (2013). Europe as the Other: External Perspectives on European Christianity. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN   9783525101315.
  • Stanley, Brian (2018). Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN   9780691157108.
  • Further reading

    • Chow, Alexander, and Emma Wild-Wood (Eds, 2020). Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity: Historical Studies in Honour of Brian Stanley. Leiden: Brill. ISBN   9789004437548

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    Brian Stanley
    NationalityBritish
    OccupationScholar of missions history
    Known forHistory of world Christianity
    Academic background
    Alma mater University of Cambridge
    External video
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