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David N. Hempton

Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies

BA, Queen's University (Belfast)
PhD, University of St. Andrews

Professor David N. Hempton

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David Hempton was University Professor and Professor of the History of Christianity at Boston University before coming to HDS (joining the Faculty of Divinity in spring 2007). Before that he was the Professor of Modern History and director of the School of History in the Queen's University of Belfast. He is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe and North America. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In recent years he has delivered the F. D. Maurice Lectures at King's College London, held a fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was Boston University's scholar/teacher of the year. He is the author of many articles and books, including Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750-1850 (Stanford, 1984), winner of the Whitfield prize of the Royal Historical Society; Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society, 1740-1890 (Routledge, 1992); Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland (Cambridge, 1996); The Religion of the People (Routledge, 1996); "Faith and Enlightenment," in the New Oxford History of the British Isles (Oxford, 2002); and Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (Yale, 2005), winner of the Jesse Lee prize. He has research and teaching interests in religion and political culture, identity and ethnic conflict, the interdisciplinary study of lived religion, comparative secularization in Europe and North America, the history and theology of Evangelical Protestantism, and the rise of the holiness traditions. He is currently working on books on evangelical disenchantment narratives and a global history of Christianity in the early modern period.

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