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About David Edwin Harrell
- David Edwin Harrell Jr.
- is an American historian who is best known for his scholarship of Religion in the United States.
- He is a Professor Emeritus at Auburn University, where he served as the Breeden Eminent Scholar of Southern History and retired in 2006.
- He has written biographies of Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, and Homer Hailey, as well as other works about Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movement.
- In 2006, he published Unto a Good Land: A History of the American People, a college textbook that discusses the effects of religion in the history of the United States.Harrell attended David Lipscomb College as an undergraduate, and Vanderbilt University as a graduate student.
- He received a Ph.D.
- in 1962.
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