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faculty assistant
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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