Harry S. Stout
Harry Stout is Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History at Yale University, where he has appointments in History, Religious Studies, and American Studies and at the Divinity School. He is also Co-Director of the Center for Religion and American Life at Yale. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum in 2006.
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: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England, 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 (co-editor), which received the Book of the Year Award from Christianity Today in 1990;
- A Jonathan Edwards Reader;
- Readings in American Religious History (co-edited with Jon Butler);
- Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth (co-edited with Kenneth Minkema)
- He most recently contributed to and co-edited Religion in the American Civil War.
He 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 for Yale University Press 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.
His courses include reading and research seminars in American Religious and Cultural History; Jonathan Edwards, and the American Civil War. His graduate courses include seminars on American revivalism and Jonathan Edwards.
Professor Stout earned his BA from Calvin College and did graduate work at Princeton Theological Seminary before earning masters and doctoral degrees at Kent State University.
