Released in the UK May 2012
Released in the US July 2012
Royale Hardback 234 X 156 | 576 Pages
9781845507749 • £19.99 $29.99
BISAC – REL015000
1789 to 1914 was a time of momentous and often violent change religiously, socially, politically and economically in the western world. The revolutions in the churches and the powerful empires of the day were to have a profound effect upon society at large both then and in the years that followed. In this detailed yet fascinating study, Ian Shaw gives context and understanding to this legacy which has been passed on from that era by providing an expert analysis of the period with a focus on the key leaders, influences and issues.
Ian J. Shaw
Ian J. Shaw is the Director of Langham Scholarship programme in the UK.
9781781917800 |
9781845505509 |
9781781917817 |
9781857926187 |
... anyone who wants to understand the issues churches face today needs a clear understanding of the past, so serious readers besides students of history and church leaders will find this a satisfying and illuminating read.
"I have long been looking for a text that would help my students in Africa understand the double development of a post western Christianity as well as a post Christian west. With Ian Shaw's extraordinary book Churches, Revolutions and Empires, that search is over."
Mark Shaw
Director of the Centre for World Christianity, Africa International University, Nairobi, Kenya
"Ian Shaw's book will give a sure and illuminating guide to these multiple processes of revolutionary change which began to redraw the contours of world Christianity."
Brian Stanley
Professor of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh and editor of Cambridge History of Christianity: World Christianities, 1815-1914
"I think this is a most impressive book. A book like this should become a standard work in the way that Alec Vidler's Church in an Age of Revolution used to be."
Ian Randall
International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, Czech Republic