Amy Laura Hall

Amy Laura Hall, the daughter of a Texas Methodist minister, is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a Ph.D. from Yale. She is a respected scholar of Christian ethics and cultural studies whose previous works have been lauded for their blend of narrative storytelling and academic rigor. Erecting the Pulpit continues a conversation about mainstream Protestantism that Amy Laura began with Conceiving Parenthood (Eerdmans, 2007), which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and praise across disparate disciplines. While Conceiving Parenthood examined the rules for proper, progressive domesticity in the 20th century, Erecting the Pulpit diagnoses evangelical masculinity today.