"DeBernardi’s assiduous tracing of links and interactions between Western and Chinese missionaries as they voyaged between Southeast Asia and China through the port cities of Penang and Singapore. . . . has provided us with an authoritative mapping of the ideational and interpersonal relationships between these individuals and institutions. Not just a cartography of Christian networks, fraying and reforming, Christian Circulations assures us that no religion should be seen as either global or local, or neither local nor global, but always both in flux."

Pacific Affairs

"This encyclopedic work is without question the final word on the large, diverse, and politically influential Christian Brethren movement in peninsular Southeast Asia. . . . Combining remarkable depth of access and an anthropologist's eye for human relations, Jean DeBernardi has produced a history that is sweeping in its global scope, but is always grounded in local realities and the human lives of its many actors."

Church History