Philip Jenkins: 27 books
The New Faces of Christianity
Believing the Bible in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world's attention to the little noticed fact that Christianity's center...
The New Anti-Catholicism
The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care. A statement that is seen as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic...
by Philip Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
What does the future hold for European Christianity? Is the Christian church doomed to collapse under the weight of globalization, Western secularism, and a flood of Muslim immigrants? Is Europe, in short, on the brink of becoming "Eurabia"? Though many pundits are loudly predicting just such a scenario,...
The Great and Holy War
How World War I Became a Religious Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis...
Hoods and Shirts
The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Extreme right-wing groups have always been a part of the American religious and political landscape. The era between the world wars, especially the 1930s, was a particularly volatile period, and by 1940, racist, nativist, and fascist groups had become so visible as to arouse public fears of insurrection...
Dream Catchers
How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality,...
The Cold War at Home
The Red Scare in Pennsylvania, 1945-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
One of the most significant industrial states in the country, with a powerful radical tradition, Pennsylvania was, by the early 1950s, the scene of some of the fiercest anti-Communist activism in the United States. Philip Jenkins examines the political and social impact of the Cold War across the...
The Lost History of Christianity
The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Jenkins is one of America’s top religious scholars.”
—Forbes magazine
The Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins offers a revolutionary view of the history of the Christian church. Subtitled “The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and...
Decade of Nightmares
The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains ascendant today? Drawing on a wide array of sources--including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows--Philip Jenkins argues...
Mystics and Messiahs
Cults and New Religions in American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2000
In Mystics and Messiahs--the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history--Philip Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s. In fact, most of the frightening images and stereotypes surrounding fringe religious movements...
by Philip Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2002
The first edition of The Next Christendom has been hailed as a landmark in our understanding of modern Christianity. In this new and substantially expanded second edition, Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expanion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America--as...
The Next Christendom
The Coming of Global Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Drawing upon the extensive new scholarship that has appeared on this topic in recent years, he asks how the...
Crucible of Faith
The Ancient Revolution That Made Our Modern Religious World
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
One of America's foremost scholars of religion examines the tumultuous era that gave birth to the modern Judeo-Christian tradition
In The Crucible of Faith, Philip Jenkins argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between 250-50 BCE, during a turbulent "Crucible...
Beyond Tolerance
Child Pornography on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Perhaps nothing evokes more universal disgust as child pornography. The world of its makers and users is so abhorrent that it is rarely discussed much less studied. Child pornographers have taken advantage of this and are successfully using the new electronic media to exchange their wares without...
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