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Yale Divinity School
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Harry S. Stout
Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity
harry.stout@yale.edu
(203) 432-0828
B.A., Calvin College
M.A., Kent State University
Ph.D., Kent State University
Professor Stout is the author of several books, including Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War; The New England Soul, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for history; The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism, which received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for biography as well as the Critic’s Award for History in 1991; Dictionary of Christianity in America (of which he was co-editor), which received the Book of the Year Award from Christianity Today in 1990; A Religious History of America (co-author with Nathan Hatch); and Readings in American Religious History (co-edited with Jon Butler). With Kenneth Minkema he co-edited Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth. He most recently contributed to and co-edited Religion in the American Civil War and is currently co-editing Religion in American Life, a seventeen-volume study of the impact of religion on American history for adolescent readers and public schools (with Jon Butler). He is general editor of both The Works of Jonathan Edwards and the “Religion in America” series for Oxford University Press. He has written articles for the Journal of Social History, Journal of American Studies, Journal of American History, Theological Education, Computers and the Humanities, and Christian Scholar’s Review. He is a contributor to the Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching, Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, and the Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West. In 2003, Professor Stout was awarded the Robert Cherry Award for Great Teaching.
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"Remigration and Revival: Two Case Studies in the Social and Intellectual History of New England, l630-l745," Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, l974.
The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England, Oxford University Press, l986. Pulitzer Prize Nominee l986; Merle Curti Award Nominee, l986).
An Enemy Among Them, (co-authored with Deborah DeFord), Houghton Mifflin, l987.
Jonathan Edwards and the America Experience, (co-edited with Nathan Hatch) Oxford University Press, l988.
Jonathan Edwards, ed., Library of America, forthcoming.
The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism, Eerdmans Press, l99l. (Pulitzer Prize nominee, l99l; awarded Critic's Award for History.
Dictionary of Christianity in America, co-editor, Intervarsity Press, l990. (awarded "Book of the Year" award, Christianity Today, l990)
Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and The Representation of American Culture, (co-edited with Barbara Oberg), Oxford University Press, l993.
A Jonathan Edwards Reader, co-editor, Yale University Press, 1995.
New Directions in American Religious History (co-edited with Daryl Hart), Oxford University Press, 1997
Readings in American Religious History (co-edited with Jon Butler), Oxford University Press, l997
Religion and the American Civil War (co-edited with Charles Regan Wilson and Randall Miller). Oxford University Press, 1999.
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 23, (co-edited with Nathan Hatch), Yale University Press, 2003.
Stories of Faith, Stories of America: Religion in United States History (with Randall Balmer and Grant Wacker), Oxford University Press, 2003.