David D. Hall

David D. Hall is an American historian, and was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, at Harvard Divinity School.

Life

He graduated from Harvard University, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. He is well known for introducing Lived religion to religious studies scholarship in the United States, most notably at Harvard Divinity School.

Awards

• 1991 Merle Curti Award

Works

• The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century, Omohundro Institute, 1972 (Harvard Divinity School, 2006, ISBN 978-0-674-01959-1)
• Hall, David D. (1989). Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-50108-6. (Harvard University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-674-96216-3)
• Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology. Princeton University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-691-11409-5.
• Hall, David D. (2008). Ways of writing: the practice and politics of text-making in seventeenth-century New England. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4102-0.

Editor

• Hall, David D. (1990). The Antinomian Controversy of 1636-1638: A Documentary History. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-1091-4.
• David D. Hall, ed. (1997). Lived Religion in America. Princeton University Press.
• David D. Hall, ed. (1999). Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1693. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3613-6. (reprint Duke University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8223-3613-6)
• Hugh Amory; David D. Hall, eds. (2000). The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-48256-1.

Criticism

• "Review: Toleration", William & Mary Quarterly, April 2009