Butler, Jon

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BUTLER, Jon

BUTLER, Jon. American, b. 1940. Genres: History, Theology/Religion. Career: California State College, Bakersfield, assistant professor of history, 1971-75; University of Illinois at Chicago, 1975-85, assistant professor, professor of history; Yale University, New Haven, CT, William Robertson Coe Professor of American History and professor of religious studies and American studies, 1985-. Publications: Religion and Witch Craft in Early American Society, 1974; The Origins of American Denominational Order: The English Churches in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1730, 1978; The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society, 1983; Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People, 1990; Religion in American History: A Reader, 1997; Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776, 2000; Religion in Colonial America, 2000. Address: Dept of History, Yale University, PO Box 208324, New Haven, CT 06520-8324, U.S.A.

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