Research Expertise and Interest

British history, early modern European history, history of religion

Research Description

Ethan Shagan is a professor in the Department of History. Hi primary fields are Early Modern Europe, Britain, and the history of religion. He is involved in a variety of ongoing projects: a book on the invention of the category of "religion" in early modern Europe; a project on the waning of the Reformation, asking how we should think about the end of a movement which has been seen as a cornerstone of modernity and thus as without ending; a history of impiety and its role in the secularization of England; and a giant history of religion.