Background
Wills, David Wood was born on January 25, 1942 in Portland, Indiana, United States. Son of Theodore Oscar Mitchell and Elizabeth Lochore (Wood) Wills.
(In this brief but comprehensive study, David W. Wills pro...)
In this brief but comprehensive study, David W. Wills provides both a broad interpretation and a wealth of factual information on the history of Christianity in the United States. Though Wills pays careful attention to the diversity of American Christianity, charting the growth of American religious pluralism is only one of his goals. He also emphasizes Christian efforts to build a "holy commonwealth" and the role of religion in America's still unresolved effort to come to terms with the realities of race. Wills places the history of Christianity in the United States in the larger context of the globalization of the Christian religion. He links the rise of African-American Christianity with the emergence of Christianity in the non-western world. He also argues that the history of Christianity in the United States concerns itself in a central way with the relation of religious ideas, institutions, constituencies, and practices to the creation and exercise of political power. This compelling work will be an invaluable text for courses in religious studies, American history, American studies, and African-American studies.
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Wills, David Wood was born on January 25, 1942 in Portland, Indiana, United States. Son of Theodore Oscar Mitchell and Elizabeth Lochore (Wood) Wills.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1962. Bachelor's Degree, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1975.
Ordained to ministry Presbyterian Church, 1970. Assistant professor School of Religion, University of Southern California, 1970-1972. Assistant professor department.of religion Amherst College, Massachusetts, 1972-1978, associate professor, 1978-1983, professor, 1983-1990, professor religion and Black studies, 1990-1994, Winthrop H. Smith "16 professor American history and American studies, department religion and Blackstudies, 1994, also director Luce Program in Comparative Religious Ethics 1978-1988.
(In this brief but comprehensive study, David W. Wills pro...)
Member American Academy Religion (chair Afro-American religious history group 1975-1978), American History Association, American Society Church History, American Studies Association, Organisation American Historians, Southern History Association Beta Kappa.
Married Carolyn Reynolds Montgomery, August 22, 1964. Children: John Brookings, Theodore Worcester, Thomas Churchill.
