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George M. Marsden
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One of
the leading historians of American religion and culture, George M. Marsden is
the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre
Dame.
His major areas of study have concerned American evangelicalism and the
role of
Christianity in American higher education. He has written several
important
books, including Fundamentalism and American Culture (Oxford
University Press, 1980, 2006); The Outrageous Idea of Christian
Scholarship.
(Oxford University Press, 1997); and The Soul of the American
University:
From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (Oxford
University
Press, 1994). His Jonathan Edwards: A Life (Yale University
Press,
2003) was a finalist for the National Book
Critics
Circle Award in the biography category for books published in 2003 and
won
numerous awards including the Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’
Annibel
Jenkins Biography Prize; the Bancroft Prize; the Organizaton of
American
Historians’
Merle Curti Award in intellectual history; the Historical Society’s
Eugene
Genovese Best Book in American History Prize; and the Philip Schaff
Prize
sponsored by the American Society of Church History. Marsden
received
his B.A. from Haverford College in 1959, a B.D. from Westminster
Theological
Seminary in 1963, and an M.A. (1960) and Ph.D. (1965) from Yale
University. He
has taught at Calvin College from 1965 to 1986, Duke University from
1986-1992
and at Notre Dame since 1992.
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