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David D. Hall

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David D. Hall
Born
David Drisko Hall

(1936-07-08) July 8, 1936 (age 88)
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineAmerican religious history
Institutions
Doctoral studentsR. Marie Griffith
Main interestsEcclesiastical history of New England

David Drisko Hall (born 1936) is an American historian, and was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, at Harvard Divinity School.[1]

Life

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Hall was born on July 8, 1936. He graduated from Harvard University, and from Yale University with a PhD.[2] He is well known for introducing lived religion to religious studies scholarship in the United States, most notably at Harvard Divinity School.

Awards

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Works

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  • 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.
  • Hall, David D. (2019). The Puritans: A Transatlantic History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-6912-0337-9.

Editor

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Criticism

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References

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  1. ^ "David D. Hall - History of American Civilization". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  2. ^ "David D. Hall".