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Leigh Schmidt joined the Divinity School in July 2009.
After six years teaching in the theological and graduate schools
of Drew University, he was most recently the Agate Brown and George
L. Collord Professor of Religion and chair of the Department of
Religion at Princeton, where he taught since 1995. In addition to the history of American religious
liberalism, another area of long-standing scholarly interest is in the
practice of studying religion. He has held prestigious fellowships
at Stanford, Princeton, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he is
the author of numerous books, including Hearing Things:
Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment (Harvard University
Press, 2000), which won the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence
in Historical Studies. He is also the author of Restless Souls: The Making
of American Spirituality (HarperOne, 2005); Consumer Rites: The Buying and
Selling of American Holidays (Princeton University Press, 1995); and Holy Fairs:
Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period (Princeton, 1989),
which received the Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church History.
In addition, he was co-editor of Practicing Protestants: Histories of the Christian
Life in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) and co-author of The Religious
History of America (HarperOne, 2002). His latest book is Heaven's Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C.
Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman (Basic Books, forthcoming 2010).
On leave academic year 2009-10.
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