James W.C. Pennington
The religious historian Harry S. Stout, who conducts research at Yale University and Yale Divinity School, will receive the James W.C. Pennington Award of Heidelberg University. The award honors one of the leading experts on the cultural history of American Protestantism. The award, presented by the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) and the Faculty of Theology, commemorates the American minister and former slave James W.C. Pennington. In 1849 Pennington was bestowed an honorary doctorate from Ruperto Carola and thus became the first African American to receive this title from a European university. Jan Stievermann, who holds the chair for the History of Christianity in the United States at the HCA, points out that Harry S. Stout has done groundbreaking research on Puritanism and Evangelicalism. His more recent work has focused on the role of religion in the coming and conduct of the American Civil War. One of the central questions Prof. Stout's work poses is to what extent religious motivations and interpretations influenced the emancipation of slaves.
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