Amy Laura Hall
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Amy Laura Hall

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Amy Laura Hall is the author of "Erecting the Pulpit: Muscular Christianity from Teddy Roosevelt to Donald Trump" (Bloomsbury). She grew up in West Texas, the daughter of a United Methodist pastor and a public-school teacher. She has lived in Durham, North Carolina and taught at Duke University since 1999, after earning her M.Div. at Yale Divinity School and her Ph.D. in Religious Ethics at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University. She has also served at suburban and urban parishes on loan from the Rio Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. Her courses include “War in the Christian Tradition,” “Masculinity and Technology,” “Faith and Feminism in North Carolina,” and seminars on Julian of Norwich and Søren Kierkegaard. Hall has organized conferences at Duke and in Durham against torture, against the use of drones in warfare, on the anti-war witness of military personnel during the war in Vietnam, and on the history of segregation in public schools. She is the author of four books, one collection of essays, and chapters and essays in scholarly journals across the fields of bioethics, sexual ethics, the ethics of war, and feminist studies. For five years, she served as a monthly essayist for the Durham Herald-Sun, and her essays for a general readership may be found online through Religion Dispatches and the Religion News Service. She is currently serving as co-editor for the Cambridge Companion to Julian of Norwich, forthcoming.
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