David Hollinger
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David Hollinger | |
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| Born | April 25, 1941 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | University of La Verne, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Intellectual history |
| Institutions | Organization of American Historians, University of California, Berkeley |
David Albert Hollinger (
In 2022 Hollinger published Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular (Princeton University Press). The most well known of his eight previous books are Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995), Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (1996), After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism and Modern American History (2013), and Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America (2017). He has edited or co-edited several other books, including The American Intellectual Tradition (seven editions, 1989 to 2016), co-edited with Charles Capper, Reappraising Oppenheimer (2005) co-edited with Cathryn Carson, and The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion (2006). One of his articles has become a standard treatment of the process of racialization and ethnoracial mixture, "Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States," American Historical Review, 2003.
His influence in the field of religious history was discussed in 2013 in The New York Times.[1]
Life
Hollinger grew up in the Church of the Brethren, a denomination in which his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been ministers, but Hollinger has identified himself as an atheist for most of his adult life. His family memoir, When This Mask of Flesh is Broken: The Story of an American Protestant Family (2017) is an account of the Hollinger family’s history and its role in the Brethren community.
Hollinger earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from
Since 1967 he has been married to legal scholar Joan Heifetz Hollinger. He is the father of two children.
Hollinger has been the Ph.D. advisor to people who have become well established as publishing scholars in history, including
.Hollinger was president of the Organization of American Historians in 2010-11. He is an elected fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a trustee of the National Humanities Center and of the
Works
- Hollinger, David A.; Capper, Charles (1989). ISBN 978-0-19-505774-4.
- Hollinger, David A. (April 1989). In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3826-2.
- Hollinger, David A. (2006-02-28). Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-03065-3.
- Hollinger, David A. (2006-03-06). Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-21663-4.
- Hollinger, David A. (2013-04-21). After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 1-4008-4599-8.
- Hollinger, David A. (2017-10-17). Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World But Changed America. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-15843-3
- Hollinger, David A. (2017). When this Mask of Flesh is Broken: The Story of an American Protestant Family. Outskirts Press. ISBN 1-9772-1114-3.
- Hollinger, David A. (2022). Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691233888
Presentations and Panels
- "The Role of Christianity in Modern US History" with David Hollinger, [Video] (Fall 2023)
- Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular (Princeton University, Wilson Center, Oct. 17, 2022)
- Race in the Age of Obama, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, St. Louis, MO (2012)
- Kuhn, the Quotidian, and the Question of God's Death, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at the University of California, Berkeley (2013)
References
- ^ "A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered". The New York Times. July 23, 2013.
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