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For the Fenland Survey historian, see David D. Hall.

Professor David D. Hall is an American historian, and was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, at Harvard Divinity School.

He graduated from Harvard University, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. He is well known for introducing Lived religion to religious studies scholarship in the United States, most notably at Harvard Divinity School.

Hall was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History until 2008, when he became Bartlett Research Professor. He writes extensively on religion and society in seventeenth-century New England and England.

His books include The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century; Worlds of Wonder, Days of
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Worlds of Wonder, Days of J...

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The Puritans: A Transatlant...

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A Reforming People: Puritan...

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Witch-Hunting In Seventeent...

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The Antinomian Controversy,...

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Puritans in the New World: ...

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Cultures of Print: Essays i...

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The Faithful Shepherd: A Hi...

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Ways of Writing: The Practi...

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“lenity” toward Catholics and any relaxing of the laws against Catholic recusancy on the grounds that a domino-like sequence would unfold: “after toleration they [Catholics] will look for equality, after equality for superiority, and having superiority they will seek the suppression of that religion which is contrary to theirs.”
David D. Hall, The Puritans: A Transatlantic History

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