Table of Contents

& Notes on Contributors



 Introduction: Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity

  Emma Wild-Wood



1 Brian Stanley: Scholar of World Christian History

  David Bebbington



Part 1: Studying World Christianity
2 1899–1900: Ecumenism and Independency in the Emerging World History of Christianity

  Mark Noll



3 Independency in Ecumenical Christianity

  David M. Thompson



4 Mission: Integrated or Autonomous? Implications for the Study of World Christianity

  Kirsteen Kim



5 Evangelical Revivals in Twentieth Century Christianity: Reflections on the East African Revival in the Light of Revivals in East Asia

  Kevin Ward



6 Creation Care in Latin America: Lessons from Catholics and Evangélicos

  Allen Yeh



Part 2: Christians Working Together
7 The Missionary Concerns of Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era

  David Bebbington



8 Baptist Students in Cambridge: Denominational and Ecumenical Identities, from the 1920s to the 1940s

  Ian Randall



9 ‘You are old, Father William’: Generational Abrasiveness in the Missionary Movement

  Andrew F. Walls



10 Field Workers and Mission Leaders in Tension: Practical Ecumenism in the Shanxi Mission

  Andrew T. Kaiser



11 The Advance of Pentecostalism in China, 1907–1937

  Rolf Gerhard Tiedemann



12 Sacred Music and Christian Transnationalism in 1920s-1930s China and Japan

  Dana L. Robert



Part 3: Pluriform Christianity
13 China, Social Ethics and the European Enlightenment

 Stewart J. Brown



14 ‘The Lutheran AggressionControversy’: Caste and Class Conflict of Christians in 19th Century South India

  Robert Eric Frykenberg



15 Edinburgh 1910 Onward: Cheng Jingyi, Vedanayagam S. Azariah and the Ecumenical Movement in Asia

  Marina Xiaojing Wang



16 Revolutionary or Reforming? Christian Engagement in Politics during Military-Backed Governments

  Sebastian C. H. Kim



17 Urbanisation, Diaspora, and the Tenacity of Chinese Evangelicalism

  Alexander Chow



 Afterword: Ecclesiological Considerations for Ecumenism and Independency

  Alexander Chow



  Bibliography of Brian Stanley’s Writings

  Index

About the Author

Alexander Chow is Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and is co-director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity. He is co-editor of the journal Studies in World Christianity (Edinburgh University Press) and is editor of the Chinese Christianities Series (University of Notre Dame Press). He is author of two books, most recently Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity (Oxford 2018).



Emma Wild-Wood is Senior lecturer in African Christianity and African Indigenous Religions and co-director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. Previously she taught in DR Congo, Uganda and Cambridge, UK. She is co-editor of the journal Studies in World Christianity and co-editor of the book series Religion in Transforming Africa published by James Currey. Her latest book is The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Change in the African Great Lakes, c. 1870-1835 (James Currey 2020).