George M. Marsden




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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