Lounge Seminar
Religion in Four Dimensions:
Puritanism and its place in
Early Modern British History
David D. Hall has taught at Harvard Divinity School since 1989, and is currently
Bartlett Research Professor. His books include The Faithful Shepherd: A
History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century; Worlds of
Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England;
Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology and, most recently, A
Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New
England (2011). He studies and writes about religion and culture in early
America, with particular attention to "lived religion," and is presently writing a
general history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New England c. 1550 to
1700, to be published by Princeton University Press. His lounge seminar will
focus on how an agenda of reform--eliminating idolatry, evangelizing the
people, installing discipline--in early modern Scotland and England came into
being, and how it was variously thwarted or enacted.
David D. Hall
4:30 PM
April 19, 2017
Tower Room
1879 Hall
Sponsored by the Department of Religion