Weaver-Zercher, David L. 1960-

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WEAVER-ZERCHER, David L. 1960-

PERSONAL:

Born October 28, 1960, in Elkhart, IN; son of John E. and Alice G. (Hostetter) Zercher; married Valerie Weaver, June 27, 1998; children: Samuel, Isaiah. Education: Messiah College, B.A., 1983; Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, M.Div., 1987; University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, Ph.D., 1997. Religion: Protestant.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Messiah College, P.O. Box 4141, Grantham, PA 17027.

CAREER:

Messiah College, Grantham, PA, associate professor of American religious history, 1997—.

WRITINGS:

The Amish in the American Imagination, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 2001.

Minding the Church: Scholarship on the Anabaptist Tradition, Pandora Press (Telford, PA), 2002.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

History: Review of New Books, summer, 2002, Charles H. Lippy, review of The Amish in the American Imagination, p. 149.

Publishers Weekly, November 12, 2001, review of The Amish in the American Imagination, p. 57.

Utopian Studies, spring, 2002, Philip E. Webber, review of The Amish in the American Imagination, p. 239.

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