Brian Stanley (historian)

He was educated at Whitgift School in Croydon, Surrey.[1] 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.

From 1996 to 2001, he was director of the Currents in World Christianity Project at the University of Cambridge. During his tenure in Cambridge he also served as the director of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide (formerly the Henry Martyn Centre) and was a fellow of St Edmund's College. He joined the faculty at the University of Edinburgh in January 2009. He is currently Professor of World Christianity and Director for the Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the School of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh.[2][3]

He is also currently the chief editor of the academic journal Studies in World Christianity[4] and part of the editorial board of The Journal of Ecclesiastical History.[5] Along with Robert Eric Frykenberg, Stanley is co-editor of the Studies in the History of Christian Missions book series from the William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.[6]

• Stanley, Brian (1990). The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Mission and British Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Leicester: Apollos.
• Stanley, Brian (1992). The History of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792-1992. London: T&T Clark.
• Stanley, Brian; Ward, Kevin, eds. (2000). The Church Mission Society and World Christianity 1799-1999. Grand Rapids, MI and Surrey: Eerdmans and Curzon Press.
• Stanley, Brian, ed. (2001). Christian Missions and the Enlightenment. London and New York: Eerdmans and Curzon Press.
• Stanley, Brian; Low, Alaine, eds. (2004). Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
• Stanley, Brian; Gilley, Sheridan, eds. (2006). The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol 8, World Christianities, c. 1815 - c. 1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 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.

• 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

External video
Edinburgh and World Christianity (2010)

• Centre for the Study of World Christianity, New College, Edinburgh