Harry S. Stout is an American historian of religion, who is currently the Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity at Yale Divinity School.[1][2] He is the editor of the 27 volume series The Works of Jonathan Edwards and the co-editor with Jon Butler of the 17-volume Religion and American Life series, which is aimed at high school students. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

Stout received a B.A. from Calvin College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Kent State University.[2]

Works

Author

  • (1986) The New England Soul, Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-503958-0
  • (1991) The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-80-280154-8
  • (2006) Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War. New York: Viking Books. finalist: ISBN 978-0-67-003470-3
  • (2017) American Aristocrats: A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-46-509898-9

Collaborations

  • with Deborah H. Deford (1987) An Enemy Among Them. Boston: Clarion Books. ISBN 978-0-39-570108-9

Contributor

  • et al. (2005) Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-76-183227-0

Editor

  • (2017) The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia (27 volumes). Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans ISBN 978-0-80-286952-4

Co-editor

  • co-editor with Nathan O. Hatch (1988) Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195051186
  • co-editor with Daniel G. Reid, Robert D. Linder, and Bruce L. Shelley (1990) Dictionary of Christianity in America. Westmont, Illinois: Intervarsity Press. ISBN 9780830817764
  • co-editor with Barbara B. Oberg (1993) Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and The Representation of American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195077759
  • co-editor with John F. Smith and Kenneth P. Minkema (1995) A Jonathan Edwards Reader. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300062045
  • co-editor with D. G. Hart (1997) New Directions in American Religious History. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195104134
  • co-editor with Jon Butler (1997) Religion in American History: A Reader. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509776-4
  • co-editor with Randall M. Miller and Charles Reagan Wilson (1998) Religion and the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195121292

References

  1. ↑ "Harry Stout". yale.edu. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Harry S. Stout" Yale Divinity School website


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