name: Edwin S. Gaustad
birth_date: 1923-11-14 00:00:00
death_date: 2011-03-25 00:00:00
genres: Biography, History
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about: A leading scholar of American religious history, Edwin Scott Gaustad was Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. He earned his B.A. in history from Baylor University (1947), and his M.A. (1948) and Ph.D. (1951) in History of Religions from Brown University.