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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Brian Stanley is a British historian, best known for his works in the history of Christian missions and world Christianity. Biography He was educated at Whitgift School in Croydon, Surrey. He received his BA, MA, and PhD degrees in history from the University of Cambridge and has taught in theological colleges in London, Bristol, and Cambridge.
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- The Bible and the flag: Protestant missions and British imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (1990) (157)
- Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire (2011) (67)
- Book Review: The History of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792–1992 (1992) (63)
- ‘Commerce and Christianity’: Providence Theory, The Missionary Movement, and the Imperialism Of Free Trade, 1842–1860 (1983) (57)
- The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 (2009) (56)
- Christian Missions and the Enlightenment (2001) (37)
- Evaluation of a modified interview version and of a self-rating version of the Suicide Assessment Scale (2006) (34)
- Joining in with the Spirit: Connecting World Church and Local Mission. (2010) (29)
- Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire (2004) (24)
- CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY: THE COLONIZATION OF THE MIND? (2003) (24)
- The Cambridge History of Christianity volume 8: World Christianities, c. 1815-c. 1914 (2006) (21)
- New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology (1995) (19)
- Inculturation: Historical Background, Theological Foundations and Contemporary Questions (2007) (18)
- The Prevalence of Chronic Psychiatric Morbidity (1985) (16)
- God's empire. Religion and colonialism in the British world, c . 1801–1908 . By Hilary M. Carey. Pp. xxiii+421 incl. 1 fig, 6 maps and 26 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 521 19410 5 (2011) (16)
- The global diffusion of evangelism : the age of Billy Graham and John Stott (2013) (16)
- Christians and Religious Plurality (2015) (15)
- African identities and world Christianity in the twentieth century (2005) (12)
- Catholic Christianity in France from the Restoration to the separation of church and state, 1815–1905 (2001) (12)
- Christian missions, antislavery and the claims of humanity, c.1813–1873 (2001) (11)
- Christian Responses to the Indian Mutiny of 1857 (1983) (10)
- Christianity in the Twentieth Century (2018) (9)
- ‘The East African Revival: African initiative within a European tradition’ (1978) (9)
- Walk humbly with the Lord: church and mission engaging plurality (2010) (9)
- From “the Poor Heathen” to “the Glory and Honour of All Nations”: Vocabularies of Race and Custom in Protestant Missions, 1844–1928 (2010) (8)
- Cambridge History of Christianity (2005) (8)
- Twentieth century world Christianity: a perspective from the history of missions (1999) (8)
- Christianity as church and story and the birth of the Filipino nation in the nineteenth century (2001) (8)
- Ethiopianism and the roots of modern African Christianity (2001) (7)
- The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism . By Adrian Hastings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii + 236 pp. $59.95 cloth. (1999) (7)
- Defining the Boundaries of Christendom: The Two Worlds of the World Missionary Conference, 1910 (2006) (7)
- Shenk (ed.), Enlarging the Story: Perspectives on Writing World Christian History (2002) (6)
- The church and childhood: papers read at the 1993 Summer Meeting and the 1994 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (1994) (6)
- Catholicism, Ireland and the Irish diaspora (2001) (6)
- The Future in the Past: Eschatological Vision in British and American Protestant Missionary History (2000) (6)
- The Church of the Three Selves: A Perspective from the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910 (2008) (6)
- Missions and missionaries (2000) (5)
- The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910: Sifting History from Myth (2010) (5)
- Home support for overseas missions in early Victorian England, c.1838-1873 (1979) (5)
- The Baker atlas of Christian history (2005) (5)
- The Missionary and the Rainmaker: David Livingstone, the Bakwena, and the Nature of Medicine (2014) (5)
- The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism (2013) (4)
- Evangelical Social and Political Ethics: An Historical Perspective (1990) (4)
- Christianity in East Asia: China, Korea and Japan (2001) (4)
- 2010Boston: The Changing Contours of World Mission and Christianity: (2012) (4)
- Evaluating the quality of life of people with mental handicaps: A SOCIAL VALIDATION STUDY (2010) (4)
- Missions and empire, c.1873–1914 (2001) (4)
- Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South (2017) (4)
- ‘Missionary Regiments for Immanuel’s Service’: Juvenile Missionary Organization in English Sunday Schools, 1841-1865 (1994) (4)
- The growth of voluntary religion (2001) (4)
- ‘Planting self-governing churches: British Baptist ecclesiology in a missionary context’ (1992) (3)
- ‘C. H. Spurgeon and the Baptist Missionary Society 1863-1866’ (1982) (3)
- BAPTISTS, ANTISLAVERY AND THE LEGACY OF IMPERIALISM (2007) (3)
- Where Have Our Mission Structures Come From? (2003) (3)
- Europe as the Other: External Perspectives on European Christianity (2013) (2)
- :Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth- Century England (2001) (2)
- Afterword: The CMS and the Separation of Anglicanism from "Englishness" (2019) (2)
- Evangelical faith and public zeal: Evangelicals and society in Britain 1780-1980 (1995) (2)
- The Oxford History of Anglicanism. Volume 3 (2015) (2)
- Edinburgh and World Christianity (2011) (2)
- Andrew Finlay Walls (1928–2021) (2021) (2)
- The outlook for Christianity in 1914 (2001) (2)
- Scandinavia: Lutheranism and national identity (2001) (2)
- Catholic nationalism in Greater Hungary and Poland (2001) (2)
- Manliness and mission : Frank Lenwood and the London Missionary Society (1996) (2)
- God in the rainforest. A tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador. By Kathryn T. Long. Pp. xxii + 446 incl. 10 figs and 5 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £22.99. 978 0 19 060898 9 (2020) (2)
- ‘“Nineteenth-century liberation theology”: nonconformist missionaries and imperialism’ (1987) (2)
- ‘Lausanne 1974’: The Challenge from the Majority World to Northern-Hemisphere Evangelicalism (2013) (2)
- Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World (2003) (2)
- The church and war: papers read at the Twenty-first Summer Meeting and the Twenty-second Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (1983) (2)
- Christianity in Indochina (2001) (2)
- Twentieth century world Christianity (1999) (2)
- Protestant missionaries and humanitarianism in the DRC: the politics of aid in cold war Africa (2021) (2)
- Edinburgh 1910 and the Genesis of the IRM (2011) (2)
- The Middle East: western missions and the Eastern churches, Islam and Judaism (2001) (2)
- OTHER REVIEWS (2008) (1)
- Book Review: The Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church: Jamaican Baptist Missions to West Africa in the Nineteenth Century (2001) (1)
- India and the Indianness of Christianity (2009) (1)
- ‘The Miser of Headingley’: Robert Arthington and the Baptist Missionary Society, 1877–1900 (1987) (1)
- Understanding World Christianity: The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls (2011) (1)
- Theology and the revolt against the Enlightenment (2001) (1)
- Church architecture and religious art (2001) (1)
- Mission and human identity in the light of Edinburgh 1910 (2009) (1)
- Response to ‘Evangelicals and public life in Kenya’ (2017) (1)
- The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792–1850: The ‘Heathen’ at Home and Overseas (2010) (1)
- Studies in Church History Vol 31 (1995) (1)
- Christians, Muslims and the State in Twentieth-Century Egypt and Indonesia (2015) (1)
- The Legacy of George Grenfell (1997) (1)
- The Legacy of George Sherwood Eddy (2000) (1)
- Is Christ Divided? (2018) (1)
- The Reshaping of Christian Tradition: Western Denominational Identity in a Non-Western Context (1996) (1)
- Latin America: the church and national independence (2001) (1)
- Church, state, and the hierarchy of civilization: the making of the Commission VII report, Missions and Governments, Edinburgh 1910 (1998) (1)
- Facing west. American Evangelicals in an age of world Christianity. By David R. Swartz. Pp. viii + 322 incl. frontispiece and 27 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £22.99. 978 0 19 025080 5 (2021) (1)
- The Vision of a Christian Higher Education for India: 200 Years of Serampore College History* (2020) (1)
- The Legacy of Robert Arthington (1998) (1)
- The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood (2019) (1)
- Ecumenism and history (2002) (1)
- The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century in a Global Context (2020) (1)
- Europe as the Other (2014) (1)
- Book Review: The Whole Gospel for the Whole World: Sherwood Eddy and the American Protestant Mission (1999) (1)
- World Christianities, c.1815-c.1914 (2006) (1)
- The Church Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799-1999 (2019) (1)
- Popular religion and irreligion in countryside and town (2001) (1)
- A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook (review) (2008) (1)
- Protestant dominance and confessional politics: Switzerland and the Netherlands (2001) (1)
- Scotland and the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 (2012) (1)
- Christianity and the sciences (2001) (1)
- Editorial: Contested Interpretations of Christian Identity (2013) (1)
- Articles on ‘Baptist missions’, ‘The Baptist Missionary Society’, ‘The London Missionary Society’, ‘Henry Martyn’, and ‘Religious freedom in mission’ (2004) (0)
- Tracking World Christianity (2005) (0)
- Book Review: A History of the Church in Africa (2001) (0)
- Global Perspectives on Christianity: Case Studies to Promote Thinking Skills in Religious Education (2001) (0)
- Larry W. Hurtado. Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World (2018) (0)
- Charles Farhadian (ed.). 2012. Introducing World Christianity. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 292, Hb. £58.00. ISBN: 978-1-4051-8249-2; Pb. £19.99. ISBN: 978-1-4051-8248-5. (2014) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- Edinburgh 1910 and the Genesis of the 'International Review of Missions' (2012) (0)
- Editorial: Gender and Family in the History of Christian Missions (2015) (0)
- A dictionary of nineteenth-century world history (1995) (0)
- Editorial: Appropriations of Christianity (2017) (0)
- Western Tides Coming Ashore in a Changing World (2015) (0)
- Christianity, Modernism, and Modernization: The Chinese Experience in the Context of Global Trends in the Twentieth Century (2015) (0)
- Migrant Churches (2018) (0)
- ‘“An Ardour of Devotion”: The Spiritual Legacy of Henry Martyn' (2009) (0)
- Church and State Relations inthe Colonial Period (2016) (0)
- The Spirit and the spirits (2018) (0)
- Ecumenism and History: Studies in Honour of John H. Y. Briggs (2002) (0)
- Christianity and literature in English (2001) (0)
- Doing Justice in South Africa and Canada (2019) (0)
- Thomas Chalmers: Enthusiast for Mission. The Christian Good of Scotland and the Rise of the Missionary Movement . By John Roxborogh. Rutherford Studies in Historical Theology. Carlisle, U.K.: Paternoster, 1999. xvi + 271 pp. $42.95 cloth. (2003) (0)
- ‘A Cambridge passage through India: the making of T. R. Glover’s The Jesus of History’ (1998) (0)
- The Theology of the Scottish Protestant Missionary Movement (2019) (0)
- Review of Mission and dialogue: proclaiming the Gospel afresh in every age by Nazir-Ali, M (1995) (0)
- J. J. Carney. 2014. Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 358, Hb £47.99. ISBN-13: 9780199982271. (2015) (0)
- Pathways and Patterns in Christian History (2015) (0)
- Tennant, Bob.Corporate Holiness: Pulpit Preaching and the Church of England Missionary Societies, 1760–1870. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii+342 pp. $99.00 (cloth). (2015) (0)
- The unexpected Christian century. The reversal and transformation of global Christianity, 1900–2000. By Scott W. Sunquist (foreword Mark A. Noll). Pp. xxiv + 213 incl. 25 figs. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2015. $22.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 9746 1 (2017) (0)
- Mission, Missiology (2021) (0)
- Mission: Proselytization and Conversion (2001) (0)
- Book Review: Norman Anderson and the Christian Mission to Modernise Islam (2018) (0)
- Book Review: World Christianity in Ecumenical Perspective (2009) (0)
- A Noise of War in the Camp (2019) (0)
- Major General Alfred Howe Terry 7th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry (2011) (0)
- From James Legge to Evangeline Edwards: The Role of Scottish and Other Missionaries in the Formation of Sinology in Britain (2020) (0)
- PRESENT: Councillor Michael Lalor In the Chair (2007) (0)
- ‘Hunting for Souls’: The Missionary Pilgrimage of George Sherwood Eddy 1 (2000) (0)
- Book Review: The Primitivist Missiology of Anthony Norris Groves: A Radical Influence on Nineteenth-Century Protestant Mission (2008) (0)
- Conclusion (2019) (0)
- Review: A History of the Churches in Australasia (2003) (0)
- Unearthly powers. Religious and political change in world history. By Alan Strathern. Pp. xvi + 391 incl. 5 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £22.99 (paper). 978 1 108 70195 2 (2021) (0)
- Editorial: Sin, Secularisation and Theologies of Reconstruction (2013) (0)
- Joanna Lewis, Empire of Sentiment: The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism; Justin D. Livingstone, Livingstone's Lives: A Metabiography of a Victorian Icon (2020) (0)
- Walk humbly with the Lord (2010) (0)
- Suicide Assessment Scale--Modified (2013) (0)
- The theology of the Scottish protestant foreign missionary movement (2017) (0)
- Good News to the Poor? (2019) (0)
- Chapter Four: Making War on the Saints The Church under Siege in France and the Soviet Union (2018) (0)
- Mission Studies and Historical Research: Past Trends and Future Trajectories (2013) (0)
- Protestant missionaries in Spain, 1869–1936. ‘Shall the Papists prevail?’ By Kent Eaton. Pp. xviii + 363. Lanham, Md–London: Lexington Books, 2015. £75. 978 0 7391 9409 6 (2018) (0)
- Aliens in a Strange Land? (2018) (0)
- The Scots Afrikaners. Identity politics and intertwined religious cultures in southern and central Africa. By Retief Müller. (Scottish Religious Cultures Historical Perspectives.) Pp. viii + 224. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. £85. 978 1 4744 6295 2 (2022) (0)
- Experiments in Electric Circuits (1985) (0)
- Missionary Principles: and Practice (2006) (0)
- Editorial: Beyond the Binary of East and West (2016) (0)
- Review of Christian mission in the twentieth century by Yates, T (1995) (0)
- Select General Bibliography (2005) (0)
- Baptists from East and West at the World Missionary Conference, 1910 (2012) (0)
- Women preachers and the new Orders (2001) (0)
- In memoriam: Dr T. Jack Thompson (1943–2017) (2018) (0)
- Review of Andreana C. Prichard, Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860-1970 and Jason Bruner, Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda. (2018) (0)
- Chapter One: Wars and Rumors of Wars The Response of British and American Churches to the First World War (2018) (0)
- The Gospel in the world (2002) (0)
- Reluctant or radical revolutionaries? Evangelical missionaries and Afro-Jamaican character, 1834–1870 . By Cawley Bolt. (Regnum Studies in Mission.) Pp. xiii + 305. Oxford: Regnum Books, 2013. £26.99 (paper). 978 1 908355 18 8 (2016) (0)
- MEDICAL MISSIONARY PRACTICE UNDER SCRUTINY (2003) (0)
- Migration and Christian identity in Congo (DRC). By Emma Wild-Wood. (Studies of Religion in Africa, 35). Pp. xvii+238 incl. 7 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2008. €85. 978 90 04 16464 2 (2010) (0)
- EAST AFRICAN CHRISTIAN NETWORKS (2018) (0)
- Making War on the Saints (2019) (0)
- Editorial: Polarities and Parallels (2014) (0)
- World Christianity: A Historical and Theological Introduction by Lalsangkima Pachuau (2019) (0)
- The Power of the Word and Prophecy (2019) (0)
- From Plato to Pentecostalism: Sickness and Deliverance in the Theology of Derek Prince (2022) (0)
- Baptists around the world: a comprehensive handbook (1995) (0)
- Obituary for Andrew N. Porter (12 October 1945–4 March 2021) (2021) (0)
- Wars and Rumors of Wars (2019) (0)
- Holy Nations? (2018) (0)
- Christians and religious traditions in the Indian empire (2001) (0)
- Missionary societies and agencies (2015) (0)
- Baptists, Race and Empire, 1792–1914 (2022) (0)
- Editorial: Making Sense of the ‘Other’ (2014) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Editorial: Missionary Eyes and Indigenous Eyes (2016) (0)
- Book Review: Three Centuries of Mission (2001) (0)
- Doing Theology for the Church's Mission: A Historian's Perspective (2016) (0)
- Christian mission and the unity of humanity (2004) (0)
- That the World May Believe (2019) (0)
- Protestants abroad. How missionaries tried to change the world but changed America. By David A. Hollinger. Pp. xvi + 391 incl. 30 ills. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. £27.95. 978 0 691 15843 3 (2018) (0)
- Book Review: The Letters of Henry Martyn: East India Company Chaplain (2020) (0)
- MINUTES OF SPECIAL MEETING OF LAOIS COUNTY COUNCIL HELD IN ÁRAS AN CHONTAE, PORTLAOISE ON 16 TH OF MARCH 2009 (2009) (0)
- History of the African experience with Christianity (2018) (0)
- ‘Culture and Christian mission: a perspective from history’ (1993) (0)
- Missionary Societies (2018) (0)
- Decolonizing African Studies (2018) (0)
- Anglican Missionary societies and agencies in the Nineteenth Century (2017) (0)
- RENEWING A VISION FOR MISSION AMONG BRITISH BAPTISTS (2012) (0)
- The communion of women. Missions and gender in colonial Africa and the British metropole. By Elizabeth E. Prevost. Pp. xii+312 incl. 3 maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £65. 978 0 19 957074 4 (2011) (0)
- Indian Scissors on the Gospels (2020) (0)
- The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Modern World (2018) (0)
- An Ardour of Devotion (2009) (0)
- Kirsteen Kim. 2009. Joining in with the Spirit: Connecting World Church and Local Mission. London: Epworth Press, pp. ix + 319, Pb, £25.00. ISBN-13: 9780716206583. (2010) (0)
- Book Review: The Bible and Empire: Postcolonial Explorations (2006) (0)
- Editorial: A New Face for Studies in World Christianity – and the Many Faces of Christian Education (2012) (0)
- Editorial: Spirits of Nationalism, Power and Prophecy (2017) (0)
- Christian Responses to Terrorism (2017) (0)
- ‘“The old religion and the new”: India and the making of T. R. Glover’s The Jesus of History’ (2002) (0)
- BMS MISSIONARIES IN MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINA (2008) (0)
- Editorial: The Paradoxes of Revival (2012) (0)
- Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1870 to 1918 . By James G. Greenlee and Charles M. Johnston. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xxiv + 274 pp. $49.95 cloth. (2000) (0)
- Book Reviews : Mission Involves Dialogue (1995) (0)
- Introduction: Europe as the Other: External Perspectives on European Christianity (2013) (0)
- Editorial: Christian Healing and Christian Dying (2014) (0)
- A History of Global Anglicanism (2008) (0)
- Obituary: Revd Canon Dr Timothy E. Yates (1935–2016) (2016) (0)
- Contrasting Patterns of Belonging and Believing (2019) (0)
- Gardening for the Gospel: Horticulture and Mission in the Life of Robert Moffat of Kuruman (2015) (0)
- Editorial: Biblical and Non-Biblical Sources of Popular Religiosity in World Christianity (2015) (0)
- MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF LAOIS COUNTY COUNCIL HELD IN ÁRAS AN CHONTAE, PORTLAOISE ON 19 TH OF JUNE 2009 (2009) (0)
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