Philip Jenkins

Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies

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In June 2007, I spoke at the Conference on Islam and Muslims in the World Today, organized by the British government, and held in Lancaster House, London

My latest book is 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

For a related article on this theme, see Europe’s Christian Comeback, Foreign Policy, June 2007


I also delivered the talk Global Schism: Is the Anglican Communion Rift the First Stage in a Wider Christian Split? Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Key West, FL, May 2007




Another recent book title is The New Faces of Christianity.   You can find out more about this from amazon.com.

"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

See also my Decade of Nightmares (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). You can find more details here.