Dr. David Hollinger
Author, Christianity’s American Fate, is twofold. Hollinger, the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History emeritus at UC Berkeley
Dr. David Hollinger specialty is in American intellectual history. Among his several edited or co-edited volumes is his 2-volume source book The American Intellectual Tradition (2006)
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Dr. David Hollinger specialty is in American intellectual history. Among his several edited or co-edited volumes is his 2-volume source book The American Intellectual Tradition (2006), co-edited with Charles Capper, which is among the most widely used textbooks in college undergraduate courses focusing on American intellectual history since the Civil War. Hollinger earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana Verne College in 1963, his Master of Arts degree in 1965 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1970, both from University of California Berkeley.
He has previously taught at the University at Buffalo and the University of Michigan, and was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University in 2001-2002.
He taught at Berkeley from 1992 to 2013, during which time he served as a Philosophy Doctor advisor people who have since become well established as publishing scholars in history, including South. M. Amadae, Jennifer Burns, Ruben Flores, K. Healan Gaston, Daniel Geary, Nils Gilman, Daniel Immerwahr, Andrew Jewett, Susan Nance, Molly Oshatz, Kevin Schultz, and Jonathan Spiro. Hollinger served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 2010-2011.
He is an elected fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center and of The Institute Foreign Advanced Study.
His Influence on the study of American religious history was noted in a New York Times article from July 23, 2013, “A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered”.
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Christianity’s Place on the Right—and the Left
The Role of Christianity in Modern US History
The purpose of David Hollinger’s new book, Christianity’s American Fate, is twofold. Hollinger, the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History emeritus at UC Berkeley, first seeks to explain how Christianity in the United States became synonymous, in large measure, with conservative white evangelicalism. He then seeks to offer explanations for the decline of mainline liberal Protestantism’s influence on American culture and society.
Hollinger argues that as the mainline Protestant establishment embraced progressive ideas about race, gender, politics, and religion during the 1960s, some of its members felt uncomfortable with this rapid liberalization and turned to conservative evangelicalism instead. Many of mainline Protestantism’s more progressive members, however, came to believe that religion was no longer necessary for understanding the world, politics, and society; in turn, they embraced secular activism. Liberal Protestantism’s decline in the 1970s, Hollinger writes, coincided with the rise of conservative evangelicalism, thus explaining how religion became more conservative in the United States as society became more secular.
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