Stewart J. Brown

Stewart Jay Brown (born 1951) is a British historian and Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh. He is known for his works on the history of Christianity.

Career Brown is a former president of the Scottish Church History Society (1998-2001) and the Ecclesiastical History Society (2016–17) and a former co-editor of the Scottish Historical Review.

Books Providence and Empire: Religion, Society and Politics in the United Kingdom 1815-1914, Longman/Pearson 2008 W. T. Stead: Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet, Oxford University Press 2019

Edited The Oxford Movement: Europe and the Wider World 1830–1930, Cambridge University Press 2012 Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century, Ashgate Publishing 2013 The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement, Oxford University Press 2017 The Church and Empire, Cambridge University Press 2018