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The University of Edinburgh
School of Divinity
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Dr. Stanley is Professor of World Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. He received his Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. degrees from the University of Cambridge in England, where he was a Fellow of St Edmund’s College and Director of the Henry Martyn Centre for the Study of Mission and World Christianity (now the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide). He has experience teaching in the areas of mission studies, world Christianity, and modern church history. He was director of the North Atlantic Missiology Project and its successor, the Currents in World Christianity Project from 1996 until 2001.

He has written or edited eight books: ”The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Missions and British Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” (1990); “The History of the Baptist Missionary Society 1792-1992” (1992); “The Church Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799-1999” (with Kevin Ward, 2000); “Christian Missions and the Enlightenment” (2001); “Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire” (2003); “The Cambridge History of Christianity volume 8: World Christianities c. 1815- c. 1914” (with Sheridan Gilley, 2006); The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910” (2009); “The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott” (2013); “Europe as the Other: External Perspectives on European Christianity” (with Judith Becker, 2014). With Robert Eric Frykenberg he is co-editor of the Eerdmans series, Studies in the History of Christian Missions. He is currently completing a world history of Christianity in the 20th century for Princeton University Press, due to appear in 2017.