Craig Harline

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Craig Edward Harline is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and an author of several books. His research has focused on lived religion during the Reformation.

Biography

Harline was raised in a LDS family with seven siblings in Fresno, California. He served as a missionary in Belgium in the 1970s, where he developed his interests in European history.

Harline earned a B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1980; a M.A. (1984) and Ph.D. (1986) from Rutgers University. He held teaching positions at Rutgers and the University of Idaho, before he began at BYU in 1992.{{cite web|title=Craig Harline, Professor|url=https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/FacultyPage.aspx?id=ceh3|website=Brigham Young University|accessdate=20 March 2017}}

In 2017 Harline was appointed to De Lamar Jensen Professorship of Early Modern History, the first endowed named chair to be established in the BYU history department.[https://fhssbyu.com/2017/09/29/byu-history-professor-awarded-departments-first-endowed-professorship/ article on establishment of the De Lamar Jensen chair]

Writings

Pamphlets, Printing, and Political Culture in the Early Dutch Republic (Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff, 1987, {{ISBN|940093601X}})
Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe: Collected Essays of Herbert H. Rowen (Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992, {{ISBN|9401052077}})
The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent (New York: Doubleday, 1994; abridged paperback, Yale University Press, Nota Bene Series, 2000, {{ISBN|0300081219}})
A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among his Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders, with Eddy Put (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000; paperback, 2002, {{ISBN|0300130546}})
Miracles at the Jesus Oak: Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe (New York: Doubleday, 2003; paperback, Yale University Press, 2011, {{ISBN|0300167024}})
Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl (New York: Doubleday, 2007; paperback, 2011, {{ISBN|0300167032}})
Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011, {{ISBN|0300167415}})
Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2014, {{ISBN|080287150X}}).
Jacobs Vlucht: een familiesaga van de Gouden Eeuw (in Dutch, [Jacob's Flight: A Family Saga of the Golden Age]; Nijmegen, the Netherlands: Vantilt, 2016, {{ISBN|9460042996}})
A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 3 October 2017, {{ISBN|0190275189}})

References

External links

[http://craigharline.com/ Craig Harline's official website]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20170320233650/https://history.byu.edu/Pages/Faculty/Harline.aspx Faculty page at BYU's History site]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK21bzoOZl0 Craig Harline on Eerdmans Author Interview Series] about Way Below the Angels, at YouTube
[http://www.mormonstories.org/conversions-two-family-stories-from-the-reformation-and-modern-america-with-craig-harline/ 418: Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America with Craig Harline], interview on Mormon Stories Podcast (15 May 2013)
[http://rationalfaiths.com/33-way-angels/ 33: Way Below The Angels], interview on Rational Faiths Podcast (16 November 2014)