David Drisko Hall (born 1936) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, and was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, at

Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the religious studies, academic study of religion or for leadership role ...

Life

Hall was born on July 8, 1936. He graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

, and from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

with a PhD. He is well known for introducing

lived religion Lived religion is the Ethnography, ethnographic and Holism, holistic framework in the sociology of religion and religious studies more broadly for understanding the religion as it is practiced by ordinary people in the contexts of everyday life, i ...

religious studies Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as ''religion'' and definition of religion, its definition is h ...

scholarship in the United States, most notably at

Awards

* 1991

Merle Curti Award The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. It is named in honor of Merle Curti (1897–1996). A committee of 5 members of the Organ ...

*2007 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

Works

* ''The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century'', Omohundro Institute, 1972 (Harvard Divinity School, 2006, ) * (Harvard University Press, 1990, ) * * *

Editor

* * * (reprint Duke University Press, 2005, ) *

Criticism

"Review: Toleration", ''William & Mary Quarterly'', April 2009

References

Harvard University alumni Yale University alumni Harvard Divinity School faculty Living people 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American male writers 1936 births {{US-historian-stub