CONTACT
INFORMATION
PUBLICATIONS
Since 1979, I have published twenty-five books,
about a hundred book chapters and refereed articles, and over a
hundred book reviews.
You can find a
listing of reviews
of my books here.
In 2014, I published The Great and Holy War
Other titles include:
Laying
Down the Sword: Why
We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses (HarperOne,
2011).
The Lost History of
Christianity: The Thousand Year Golden Age of the Church in
the Middle East, Africa and Asia - and How It Died
(HarperOne, 2008).
God's
Continent:
Christianity, Islam and Europe's Religious Crisis
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
"A sweeping survey at least partly aimed at defusing the kind of
frenzied rhetoric found in While Europe Slept. Jenkins' elegant
and fluid writing never allows the text to be bogged down by the
data. Beyond being an eye-opener for general readers and an
invaluable resource for academics, the book injects a much-needed
voice of reason into the cacophony of outsized opinions on the
topic."
Catholic
Online
"Jenkins loves to skewer headlines, to the point that each new
book seems to present nothing less than a paradigm shift.... And
who but Jenkins could enliven this storyline with an ocean of
sociological data poured into a novel-like book that's impossible
to put down?"
Religion
Bookline
The
New
Faces of Christianity (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2006).
"An important new book by one of the preeminent scholars of
contemporary Christianity. Perhaps more than any other church
historian in the affluent north, Philip Jenkins understands how
the church of the global South will transform Christian faith in
the world. The New Faces of
Christianity challenges our usual reading of the Bible
with profound insights from Christians who help us re-learn truths
that much of Western Christianity has forgotten. Like his
ground-breaking The Next
Christendom, this is absolutely essential reading for all
who are seeking to understand the future of the church in the 21st
century."
Jim
Wallis,
Editor of Sojourners and
author of God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the
Left Doesn't Get It
"Jenkins's prescient religious histories offer brilliant insights
on the state of modern Christianity."
Publishers
Weekly
"Gracefully and cogently synthesizing mountains of research,
Jenkins illuminates a crucial aspect of the burgeoning 'Two-Thirds
World' Christianity that he called attention to in The Next Christendom."
Booklist
Decade
of
Nightmares (New
York:
Oxford University Press, 2006).
"Jenkins has produced a
humdinger."
Jacob Heilbrunn, New York Times
"Jenkins effectively blends American politics and world events
with the popular culture of the time. His introduction stands
alone as a cogent political-social critique, though the entire
book is a joy--and revelation--to read. This significant work of
political history is highly recommended."
Library Journal (starred review)
Earlier 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.
Third edition, London: Palgrave, 2007.
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
