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David Hempton
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David Hempton is a
prominent social historian of religion  with particular expertise in
populist
traditions of evangelicalism in Europe and North America. He has
recently been
named Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological
Studies a
Harvard Divinity School. Before this he was University Professor and
Professor
of the History of Christianity at Boston University. He is a Fellow of
the
Royal Historical Society and former Professor of Modern History and
Director of
the School of History in the Queen’s University of Belfast. He is a
former
chairman of the Wiles Trust founded in 1951 by Sir Herbert Butterfield
to
promote innovative thinking on the history of civilization, broadly
conceived.
Hempton is the author of many books and articles including: Methodism
and
Politics in British Society, 1750-1850 (Stanford University Press,
1984),
winner of the Whitfield prize of the Royal Historical Society;
"Methodism in
Irish Society, 1770-1830" proxime accessit for the Alexander
Medal of
the Royal Historical Society (1986); Evangelical Protestantism in
Ulster
Society, 1740-1890 (Routledge, 1992); Religion and Political
Culture in
Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of
Empire
(Cambridge University Press, 1996); The Religion of the People:
Methodism
and Popular Religion, c. 1750-1900 (Routledge, 1996); "Faith and
Enlightenment" in the New Oxford
History of the British Isles (2002);
and Methodism:
Empire of the Spirit (Yale
University Press, 2005), winner of the Jesse Lee Prize. He has research
and
teaching interests in European religious history, religion and
political
culture, identity and ethnic conflict, the
interdisciplinary study of lived
religion, the history and theology of Evangelical Protestantism, and
the rise
of Methodism in the British Isles, North America, and beyond in the
eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. 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
(2004). He is currently working on books on evangelical disenchantment
narratives and a global history of Christianity in the early modern
period. He
received his B.A. from Queen’s University Belfast and his Ph.D. from
St.
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