Brian Stanley (historian)

{{short description|British historian}}
{{other uses|Brian Stanley (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox academic
|name=Brian Stanley
|nationality=British
|occupation=Scholar of [[Missiologist|missions]] [[Church history|history]]
|known_for=History of [[world Christianity]]
|discipline=[[Missiology|Missions study]], [[Church history]]
|workplaces=[[University of Cambridge]], [[University of Edinburgh]]
|alma_mater=[[University of Cambridge]]
}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
'''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]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Old Whitgiftian Association|title=Old Whitgiftian News, Edition No:4, Covering 2008-2009|url=http://whitgiftianassociation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/OWA-News-2008-2009.pdf|access-date=31 May 2021}}</ref> 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, Cambridge|St Edmund's College]]. He joined the faculty at the [[University of Edinburgh]] in January 2009 and served as Director for the [[Centre for the Study of World Christianity]] at the [[New College, Edinburgh|School of Divinity]] in the University of Edinburgh until 2018. He is currently Professor of [[World Christianity]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/brian-stanley|title=Professor Brian Stanley|website=School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh|access-date=29 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baylorisr.org/scholars/s/brian-stanley/|title = Brian Stanley | website =Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion| access-date =1 September 2015}}</ref>

He is also currently the chief editor of the academic journal ''[[Studies in World Christianity]]''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.euppublishing.com/page/swc/editorialBoard|title=Editorial Board | website = Edinburgh University Press|access-date = 2 September 2015}}</ref> and part of the editorial board of ''[[The Journal of Ecclesiastical History]].''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-ecclesiastical-history/information/editorial-board|title=Editorial board|website=Cambridge University Press|access-date=7 October 2016}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/CategoryCenter.aspx?CategoryId=SE!SHCM|title=Studies in the History of Christian Missions|website=Wm. B. Eerdmans|access-date=7 October 2016}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book|last=Stanley|first=Brian|title=The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Mission and British Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries|publisher=Apollos|isbn=9780851114125|date=1990|location=Leicester}}
* {{cite book|last=Stanley|first=Brian|title=The History of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792-1992|publisher=T&T Clark|isbn=9780567096142|date=1992|location=London}}
* {{Cite book|isbn=9781136830969|editor1-last=Stanley|editor1-first=Brian|editor2-last=Ward|editor2-first=Kevin|title=The Church Mission Society and World Christianity 1799-1999|year=2000|publisher=Eerdmans and Curzon Press|location=Grand Rapids, MI and Surrey}}
* {{Cite book|isbn=9781136865541|editor1-last=Stanley|editor1-first=Brian|title=Christian Missions and the Enlightenment|year=2001|publisher=Eerdmans and Curzon Press|location=London and New York}}
* {{Cite book|isbn=9780802821164|editor1-last=Stanley|editor1-first=Brian|editor2-last=Low|editor2-first=Alaine|title=Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire|year=2004|publisher=Eerdmans|location=Grand Rapids, MI}}
* {{Cite book|isbn=9781139053952|editor1-last=Stanley|editor1-first=Brian|editor2-last=Gilley|editor2-first=Sheridan|title=The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol 8, World Christianities, c. 1815 - c. 1914|year=2006|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|location=Cambridge}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGctpiHH-EkC|title= The World Missionary Conference: Edinburgh 1910 |last=Stanley|first=Brian|date= 2009|publisher=Eerdmans|isbn=9780802863607|location=Grand Rapids, MI}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UMhsoyVuefIC|title= The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott |last=Stanley|first=Brian|date= 2013|publisher=Inter-Varsity Press|isbn=9780830825851|location=Downers Grove, IL}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pWLiAgAAQBAJ|title=Europe as the Other: External Perspectives on European Christianity|date=2013|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|isbn=9783525101315|editor-last=Becker|editor-first=Judith|location=Göttingen|language=en|editor-last2=Stanley|editor-first2=Brian}}
*Stanley, Brian (2018). ''Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History.'' Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|9780691157108}}.

== Further reading ==

* [[Alexander Chow|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}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk Centre for the Study of World Christianity], [[New College, Edinburgh|New College]], Edinburgh

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