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David Hempton, formerly Professor of the History of Christianity at Boston University, was in 2007 appointed Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a former winner of the Society's Whitfield Prize, his books include Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (Yale University Press, 2005) and Evangelical Disenchantment (Yale University Press, 2008).