Pennsylvania State
University
PUBLICATIONS
Since 1979, I have published twenty books, about a
hundred book chapters and refereed
articles, and over a hundred book reviews.
My latest book is God's
Continent: Christianity, Islam and Europe's Religious Crisis (2007).
Another recent title is The
New Faces of Christianity. You can find out more about
this from amazon.com.
See also my Decade
of Nightmares (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). You can
find more details here.
Other books
The
Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry 1640-1790.
Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Archbishop Maurice Couve de Murville and
Philip Jenkins, Catholic Cambridge.
London: Catholic
Truth Society, 1983.
Crime and Justice: Issues and Ideas.
Monterey, CA: Brooks-Cole, 1984.
A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990.
London: Longmans, 1992.
Intimate
Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain.
Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992.
Using
Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide.
Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994.
Pedophiles
and Priests: Anatomy of a Social Crisis.
New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996.
Hoods
and Shirts: The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania 1925-1950.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North
Carolina Press, 1997.
A
History of the United States.
London: Macmillan / New York: St.Martin’s
Press, 1997.
Second edition, London: Palgrave Press, 2002.
Moral
Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern
America.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
Click here for
more details.
Synthetic
Panics: The Politics of Designer Drugs.
New York University Press, 1999. Click here
for more details.
The
Cold War at Home: The Red Scare in Pennsylvania 1945-1960.
University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Mystics
and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History.
New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000. Click here
for more details.
Hidden
Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way.
New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001. Click here
for more details.
Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet.
New York University Press, 2001. Click here
for more details.
The
Next Christendom: The Rise of Global Christianity
New York: Oxford
University Press, 2002. Click here for more
details.
Images
of Terror: What We Can And Can't Know About Terrorism
Hawthorne, NY: Aldine De Gruyter, 2003. Click here
for more details.
The
New Anti-Catholicism The Last Acceptable Prejudice
New York: Oxford
University Press, 2003. Click here
for more details.
Dream
Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Click
here
for more details
You can find a listing of reviews
of my books here.
Other Publications
My book
chapters and journal articles.
Conference
papers I have delivered, as well as invited
lectures
and presentations.
Book
reviews I have published.
Over the years, I have worked on a variety of topics.
In addition to the books and articles mentioned above, you can find a
number of things I have written on the Internet.
This includes for instance an article on “The Next Christianity” that
appeared in the ATLANTIC
MONTHLY, together with a related interview,
and some other materials.
You can also find articles and op-eds I have
written on other religious themes, including the study of the New
Testament, the Gnostic
Gospels, New Age
religion, and anti-Catholicism.
I still publish on some other topics that I
have been working on for a number of years, including British
history (this link leads to a PDF file, which might be slow
loading).
I also work on aspects of crime and justice,
including drug
use, serial
murder and Internet pornography.
