Professor Grant Wacker Speaks on Billy Graham’s America
March 17, 2008
Grant Wacker, professor of christian history at the Divinity School, will speak on “Billy Graham’s America” at 8 p.m. March 27 in Room 0016 Westbrook, Duke Divinity School.
A well-known authority on American religion, Wacker is writing a cultural biography about Graham to be titled “Billy Graham and the American Moment.” He will share insights from this project during his 45-minute talk and also take questions from the audience.
Wacker is the co-editor or author of six books, including “Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture.” He also is working on an interpretive survey of religion in United States history with Randall Balmer and Harry S. Stout, to be published by Oxford University Press.
Wacker, who is president of the American Society of Church History, has served as a senior editor of the quarterly journal, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture. He joined the Divinity School faculty after teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977-1992.