David Little

Research Fellow

David Little will be exploring protestant contributions to religious liberty in colonial America before the Founding for the Christianity and Freedom Project. He is a research fellow at the Berkley Center. He retired in 2009 as T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at Harvard Divinity School, and as an associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Until the summer of 1999, he was senior scholar in Religion, Ethics and Human Rights at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. From 1996 to 1998, he was member of the Advisory Committee to the State Department on Religious Freedom Abroad. Little is the author or co-author of several volumes in the USIP series on religion, nationalism, and intolerance, and has edited two recently published volumes: Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: A Comparative Perspective (2007), with Donald K. Swearer, and Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution (2007).

PUBLICATIONS

March 2007

Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: A Comparative Perspective

January 2007

Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution

December 1993

Sri Lanka: The Invention of Enmity

ESSAYS

Introduction: Chapter on Christianity and Religious Freedom

Christianity and Religious Freedom in the Ancient Period (until 475 CE)

Christianity and Religious Freedom in the Medieval Period (476 – 1453 CE)

Christianity and Religious Freedom in the Early Modern Period (1454 – 1750)

Christianity and Religious Freedom in the Modern Period (1751 – 2011)