Eustace Haydon

Albert Eustace Haydon (1880–1975) was a Canadian historian of religion and a leader of the humanist movement. He was ordained to Baptist ministry and served a church in Dresden, Ontario, in 1903–04.[2] He ministered to the First Unitarian Society of Madison, Wisconsin, from 1918 to 1923.[2] He was head of the Department of Comparative Religion at the University of Chicago from 1919 to 1945.[1] While there, he was an influential voice of naturalist humanism.[3] In 1933 he was one of signers of the Humanist Manifesto.[4] The American Humanist Association awarded him the Humanist of the Year award in 1956.[2]

Eustace Haydon
Born	Albert Eustace Haydon 1880 Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Died	1975 (aged 94–95) Santa Monica, California, US
Nationality	Canadian
Academic background
Alma mater	McMaster University University of Saskatchewan University of Chicago
Thesis	The Conception of God in the Pragmatic Philosophy (1918)
Academic work
Discipline	History religious studies
Sub-discipline	Comparative religion history of religion
Institutions	University of Chicago
Influenced	David Crockett Graham[1]

References

1. McKhann, Charles F.; Waxman, Alan (2011). "David Crockett Graham: American Missionary and Scientist in Sichuan, 1911–1948". In Glover, Denise M.; Harrell, Stevan; McKhann, Charles F.; Byrne Swain, Margaret (eds.). Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880–1950. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-295-99118-4.
2. Cleary, Maryell. "Eustace Haydon". Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
3. Stone, Jerome (2007). Religious Naturalism Today: The Rebirth of a Forgotten Alternative. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. pp. 86, 91, 129. ISBN 978-0-7914-7538-6.
4. "Humanist Manifesto I". American Humanist Association. Retrieved September 15, 2012.

External links

• Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography - Eustace Haydon