Brian Stanley, “Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History” (Princeton UP, 2018)

10/03/18 • 34 min

Today I talked with Brian Stanley, professor of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh, about his new book, Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History (Princeton University Press, 2018). Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, and representing the expansion, assimilation and contraction of Christian religion in a...

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