David Hollinger

David Albert Hollinger () (born April 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialties are American intellectual history and American ethnoracial history.

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''. Provided by Wikipedia
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