Jon Butler is Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. His award-winning books include The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society (1983); Awash in A Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990); and Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 (2000). His newest project is a history of religion in New York City between 1870 and 1970.

Lecture topics:

• The Anomaly of Religion in Modern America
• God in Gotham: How Religion Prospered in Modern Manhattan
• Religion and Politics in the American Experience

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