PHILIP JENKINS
407
Weaver Building,
Pennsylvania
State University,
University
Park, PA, 16802.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/
EDUCATION: Clare College,
University of Cambridge, England (1970-78)
1978 Ph.D.
(History), University of Cambridge.
1978 M.A. University of Cambridge.
1974 B.A.
(Hons.), University of Cambridge. Double First-Class Honors
(Part
1, History; Part 2, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Studies).
2007-Present Edwin
Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities, Pennsylvania State University.
1997-2007 Distinguished
Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University.
1993-97
Professor
of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University.
1992-98 Director,
Religious Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University.
1989-93
Professor of Criminal Justice and American Studies, Pennsylvania State
University.
1984-89 Associate
Professor of Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania State University.
1980-84 Assistant
Professor of Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania State University.
1977-80
Research Officer on an Oxford and Cambridge project on the history of
the English criminal law 1790-1914.
I have published more than
twenty books, and about 120 book chapters and refereed articles. For more details, see http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/books.html
A full listing of reviews
of my books can be found at http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/reviews.htm
Books
The Lost History of Christianity
San Francisco: HarperOne, forthcoming Fall 2008.
GodÕs Continent: Christianity, Islam and EuropeÕs Religious
Crisis
New
York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 340 pages.
This book also appeared in
German, as Gottes Kontinent? †ber die religišse Krise Europas und die
Zukunft von Islam und Christentum (Freiburg: Herder, 2008).
The New Faces of
Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South
New York: Oxford University
Press, 2006. 252 pages.
The Italian edition
appeared as I Nuovi Volti del Cristianesimo (Milan: Vita e Pensiero,
2006)
Decade of Nightmares:
The End of the 1960s and the Making of Eighties America
New York: Oxford University
Press, 2006. 344 pages.
Dream Catchers: How
Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
306 pages.
The New Anti-Catholicism
The Last Acceptable Prejudice
New York: Oxford University
Press, 2003. 258 pages
This book is being translated
into Polish.
Images of Terror: What We
Can And Can't Know About Terrorism
Hawthorne, NY: Aldine De
Gruyter, 2003. 227 pages
The Next Christendom: The
Rise of Global Christianity
New York: Oxford University
Press, 2002. 270 pages.
A second expanded edition was
published by Oxford in 2007 (316 pages).
This book is also being
translated into several other languages, including German, Chinese, Korean,
Polish, Portuguese, and Italian.
The Chinese edition appeared
from New Century Publishing (Taiwan) in 2003: 319 pages
The Italian edition appeared
as La Terza Chiesa (Rome: Fazi Editore, 2004): 377 pages
The
German edition appeared as Die Zukunft des Christentums (Giessen:
Brunnen-Verlag, 2006): 384 pages
Hidden
Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way
New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001. 260 pages.
Beyond Tolerance: Child
Pornography on the Internet
New York University Press,
2001. 259 pages.
Mystics and Messiahs:
Cults and New Religions in American History
New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000. 294 pages.
Synthetic Panics: The
Politics of Designer Drugs
New York University Press,
1999. 247 pages.
The Cold War at Home: The
Red Scare in Pennsylvania 1945-1960
University of North Carolina
Press, 1999. 271 pages.
Moral Panic: Changing
Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America
New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1998. 302 pages.
Hoods and Shirts: The
Extreme Right in Pennsylvania 1925-1950.
Chapel Hill, NC: University
of North Carolina Press, 1997. 343 pages.
A History of the United
States
London: Macmillan / New York:
St.MartinÕs Press, 1997. 317 pages.
Second edition, London:
Palgrave Press, 2002: 330 pages.
Third edition, London:
Palgrave, 2007: 338 pages.
This book is being translated
into several other languages, including Spanish, Romanian, Serbian, and
Estonian.
The Spanish edition appeared
from Madrid's Alianza Editorial in 2002: 409 pages. A second edition appeared
in 2005: 431 pages.
The Romanian edition, O
Istorie A Statelor Unite, appeared from BucharestÕs Editura Artemis in
2002: 286 pages.
The Estonian edition was published as Ameerika
†hendriikide Ajalugu (Tallinn, Estonia: Kirjastus Valgus, 2005): 308
pages.
Pedophiles and Priests:
Anatomy of a Social Crisis.
New York: Oxford University
Press, 1996. 214 pages.
Using Murder: The Social
Construction of Serial Homicide
Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de
Gruyter, 1994. 262 pages
Intimate Enemies: Moral
Panics in Contemporary Great Britain
Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de
Gruyter, 1992. 262 pages.
A History of Modern Wales
1536-1990
London: Longmans, 1992. 451
pages.
Crime and Justice: Issues
and Ideas
Monterey, CA: Brooks-Cole,
1984. 211 pages.
The Making of a Ruling
Class: The Glamorgan Gentry 1640-1790
Cambridge University Press,
1983. 353 pages.
Archbishop Maurice Couve de
Murville and Philip Jenkins, Catholic Cambridge
London: Catholic Truth
Society, 1983. 149 pages.
Edited Books
Ernst
SchŸrer, Manfred Keune and Philip Jenkins, eds., The Berlin Wall:
Representations and Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. 388 pages.
Ernst
SchŸrer and Philip Jenkins, eds., B. Traven: Life and Work. University
Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1987. 368 pages.
Selected
examples. For a full listing, see http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/articles.htm
Trends in Global Christianity,
in Steven Boguslawski and Ralph Martin, eds., The New Evangelization:
Overcoming the Obstacles (New York: Paulist Press, 2008): 142-53
Failure To Launch: Why Do
Some Social Issues Fail to Detonate Moral Panics? British Journal of
Criminology 2007: 1-13
Satanism: Myth and Reality in a
Contemporary Moral Panic. (with Daniel Maier-Katkin) in James R Lewis and
Jesper Aagaard Petersen, eds., The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of Satanism
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008), 64-88 (reprinted from a 1992 article that
originally appeared in Crime, Law and Social
Change)
Reading the Bible in the Global South, in
Jonathan J. Bonk et al, eds., Speaking About What We Have Seen And Heard
(New Haven, CT: OMSC Publications, 2007), 79-90
Christianity Goes South, in Frans Wijsen
and Robert Schreiter, eds., Global Christianity: Contested Claims
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007), 15-33.
Lord Acton Was Right: Religion Really is
the Key to History, in Jim Manney, ed., The Best Catholic Writing 2007
(Chicago: Loyola Press, 2007), 53-61
The Greatest Exaggerations Ever Told, in
Dan Burstein and Arne DeKeijzer, eds., Secrets of Mary Magdalene (New
York: CDS Books, 2006), 117-124.
Religion, Global Trends, and Religious
Futurology, in Charles L. Harper, Jr., ed., Spiritual Information: One Hundred Perspectives (Templeton Foundation Press, 2005),
90-95.
Weird Tales: The Story of a
Delusion, in M. W. Anderson and Brett Alexander Savory, The Last Pentacle of
the Sun: Writings In Support of the West Memphis Three (Vancouver, BC:
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004): 35-41.
The Politics of Persecuted
Religious Minorities, in Robert A. Seiple and Dennis R. Hoover, Religion and
Security: The New Nexus in International Relations (Lanham, MD: Rowman and
Litlefield, 2004): 25-36.
*Reprinted: an adapted
version of this chapter appeared as Religion, Repression and Rebellion, in Faith
and International Affairs, 5(1)(2007): 3-12.
The Center and the Fringe: America's
Religious Futures, in Hans Krabbendam and Derek
Rubin, eds., Religion in America: European and American Perspectives
(Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004): 51-66.
Church, Nation and Language:
The Welsh Church 1660-1800, in Jeremy Gregory and Jeffrey S. Chamberlain, eds, The
National Church in Local Perspective (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press,
2003): 265-84.
Satanism and Ritual Abuse, in
James R. Lewis, ed., Handbook of New Religious Movements (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2003): 221-42.
Welsh Urban Networks 1600-1850, in Peter Clark, ed., The
Cambridge Urban History of Britain ii, 1540-1840 (Cambridge University
Press, 2000): 133-149.
Between Two Revolutions:
Wales 1642-1780, in Gareth E. Jones and Dai Smith, eds., The People of Wales
(Llandyssul, Wales: Gomer Press, 1999): 83-110.
Seventeenth Century Wales:
Definition and Identity, in Brendan Bradshaw and Peter Roberts, eds., British
Consciousness & Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533-1707 (Cambridge
University Press, 1998): 213-35.
The Anglican Church and the
Unity of Britain: the Welsh Experience, in Steven Ellis and Sarah Barber, Conquest
and Union: Fashioning a British State 1485-1725 (London: Longmans, 1995):
115-138.
Occult Survivors: The Making
of a Myth, (with Daniel Maier-Katkin) in James Richardson, David Bromley and
Joel Best, eds., The Satanism Scare (Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter,
1991): 127-144.
*Reprinted: This
chapter was reprinted in Darren
Oldridge, ed., The Witchcraft Reader (London: Routledge,
2002): 419-432.
Non-Refereed Publications
and Journalism
I
have published extensively in magazines and newspapers, including both major
articles as well as shorter opinion and op-ed pieces. Some illustrative
examples of this writing include:
Bringing the Loathsome to
Light, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 1, 2002: B16.
The Myth of the Pedophile
Priest, Pittsburgh Post Gazette March 3, 2002, online at
http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/comm/20020303edjenk03p6.asp
*Reprinted:
This article was widely reprinted in dozens of newspapers and other
publications across the US.
The
Catholic Church's Culture Clash, Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2002.
*Reprinted: This
article was reprinted in Society, 40(3)(2003): 8-9.
The
Next Christendom, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 29, 2002: B7-10,
online at http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i29/29b00701.htm
Celibacy
For Beginners, Washington Post, March 31, 2002, B3.
Here
For Good: Religion and the New Immigrants, Books and Culture, May-June
2002: 12-13.
Growing
the Flock, Boston Globe, June 23, 2002, E1.
A
New Religious America, First Things, August-September 2002: 25-28.
*Reprinted: This
article was reprinted in John Wilson, ed., The Best Christian Writing 2004
(Jossey-Bass, 2003), 61-69.
The
Next Christianity, Atlantic Monthly, October 2002: 53-68.
*This article was
nominated for a National Magazine Award.
It has also been widely
excerpted and summarized in various magazines in North America and Europe. See
for example:
Occidente Attento! Arriva La
Nuova Cristianita, Sette (supplement to Corriere Della Sera,
Milan) October 24, 2002: 108-12;
Die Zweite Reformation, in Rheinischer
Merkur, March 6, 2003.
Das Christentum Wird im 21 Jahrhundert Die Welt PrŠgen Chrismon,
August 2003: 36-37.
Das NŠchste Christentum Reformierte
Presse (ZŸrich) August 2003: 7-9.
Die Gegenreformation Hat
LŠngst Begonnen, Der †berblick, September 2003: 80-84.
The New Iron Curtain, American
Outlook, Fall 2002: 25-30.
Cut Child Porn Link to
Abusers, Guardian (London) January 23, 2003.
Some Prejudices Are More
Equal Than Others, Catalyst, May 2003: 8-9.
Catholicism
Final Target for Bashers, Arizona Republic, June 15, 2003.
Did You Know That The Middle EastÕs
Radicals Used To Be Christians? History News Network, August 2003, online at http://hnn.us/articles/1640.html
Pope Has Transformed The
World, Dallas Morning News, October 16, 2003.
Gospel Truth? Dallas
Morning News, November 2, 2003.
Defender of the Faith, Atlantic
Monthly, November, 2003: 46-49.
Now,
Think About The Age Of Consent, Dallas Morning News, March 7, 2004.
GibsonÕs
Atonement, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 14, 2004.
On
Native Grounds, Boston Globe, September 26, 2004.
The
Anti-Museum, Christian Century, February 8, 2005: 25-29.
Delikate
Warnungen: Papst und Kirche aus Sicht des SŸdens, SŸddeutsche Zeitung,
April 5, 2005.
*This
article was reprinted in the Tages-Anzeiger (ZŸrich), as Das Herz
der Kirche SchlŠgt im SŸden (April 8).
Be
Separate From Them, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 16, 2005.
Cult Classics, Atlantic Monthly, April 2006: 117.
All Gospels Are
Not Created Equal, Beliefnet, April 2006, online at
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/189/story_18922_1.html
The Defeat of
Liberalism, Kommersant (Moscow) June 2, 2006, online at http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.html?path=\daily\2006\098\11007286.htm
Liberating
Word, Christian Century, July 11, 2006: 22-27.
*This
article was reprinted in Philip Zaleski, ed., The Best American
Spiritual Writing 2007 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007): 167-175.
Believing
in the Global South, First Things, December 2006: 12-18.
Das
Entstehen Eines Neues Christentums, Forum Weltkirche (Germany), Jan-Feb.
2007: 13-18.
Who
is Harry Sylvester? First Things, March 2007: 17-21.
Companions
of Life, Books and Culture, March-April 2007: 18-20.
EuropeÕs
Christian Comeback, Foreign Policy June 2007, online at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3881
Looking
for a Few Good Muslims, July 2007, at http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/muslim/; also appeared on
Huffingtonpost, at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-jenkins/looking-for-a-few-good-mu_b_56954.html
America's
Cult Culture, in Mysteries of History: Secret Societies, US News and
World Report Collector's Edition (2007), 60-63. (Adapted from my book Mystics
and Messiahs).
Dialogue
with Miranda Hassett on The Anglican Communion in Crisis: OUP blog, at http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/christian/ and http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/part_two-2/
PBS
and Historical Objectivity, New Republic blog, August 2007, http://www.tnr.com/blog/openuniversity.
Neuer
Wein in alten BrŠuchen: Die erstaunlich religišse Zukunft Europas, SŸddeutsche
Zeitung, October 1, 2007.
Economics
as Eugenics, First Things, October 2007: 13-15.
Unholy
Communion, New Republic, October 8, 2007: 14-17
The
Stillborn Modernization, Cato Unbound, October 2007, at http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/10/12/philip-jenkins/the-stillborn-modernization/
Infertile
Crescent, New Republic, November 5, 2007: 10-13.
The
Heresy That WouldnÕt Die, Christian History and Biography, Fall 2007:
33-35.
Burning
at the Stake, New Republic, December 10, 2007: 14-15.
*This
article was reprinted in Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer eds., Good
Reasons with Contemporary Arguments (Pearson Longman, 2009): 343-345.
Apocalyptic
Politics, Los Angeles Times, January 25, 2008.
ÒAuch
bei Muslimen kommen Kinder aus der Mode,Ó Welt am Sonntag, January 27,
2008. http://www.welt.de/wams_print/article1600238/Auch_bei_Muslimen_kommen_Kinder_aus_der_Mode.html
ÒHomegrown
Terrorism,Ó Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2008.
*This
article was reprinted in other newspapers, including the Houston
Chronicle, March 23, 2008.
ÒWie
der Westen die Muslime islamisiert,Ó Welt am Sonntag, May 24, 2008. http://www.welt.de/politik/article2029792/Wie_der_Westen_die_Muslime_islamisiert.html
Book Reviews
Since
1985, I have published over a hundred book reviews. For a full listing, see http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/bookreviews.htm
PAPERS PRESENTED AND
INVITED LECTURES
For
full details, see http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/conference.htm
and http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/invited.htm
Since 1980, I have delivered over a hundred papers to scholarly
gatherings and professional associations, most regularly to groups like the
American Society of Criminology, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the
Pennsylvania Historical Association. I have also presented papers to groups as
diverse as the Organization of American Historians, American Society of
Eighteenth Century Studies, the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, G. K.
Chesterton Society, Popular Culture Association, American Correctional
Association, American Association of Law Librarians, and the Pennsylvania Labor
History Society.
Some recent examples of invited lectures or presentations
include:
Futures of American Religion,
Netherlands American Studies Association. Middelburg, Netherlands, June 2001
Globalization and the
Transformation of Christianity, Foreign Policy Research Institute,
Philadelphia, PA, September 2001
I was the subject of an
Author meets Critics session on Philip Jenkins as Social Constructionist, at
the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November, 2001
The Competition for Converts
between Christianity and Islam, Harvard Academy, Seminar on Globalization and
Culture, Harvard University, March 2002
Participant in panel on The
Three Kingdoms and the New British History, Keough Institute for Irish Studies,
Notre Dame University, May 2002
Participant in panel at
conference on The Bible and the Ballot: Evangelicals and Third World Democracy,
Potomac, Maryland, June 2002
After Father Geoghan: The
Lessons of the Clergy Abuse Cases, Invited lecture to Conference on
Victimization of Children and Youth, University of New Hampshire, Portsmouth,
NH, August, 2002
The New Christianity and the
Future of Global Politics, Toward an Understanding of Religion and Political
Conflict, meeting organized by Ethics and Public Policy Center, Key West, FL,
December 2002.
Islam in The American
Experience, History Day lecture, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Bryn Mawr,
PA, May 2003. This paper was circulated in FPRIÕs Watch on the West
4(4)(2003). It was also reprinted in The WorldPaper, at http://www.worldpaper.com/enewsletters/080703.html
Invited speaker and panelist at Religious
Freedom: The Missing Dimension of Security, Brandywine Forum 2003, held at
Eastern University, St. DavidÕs, PA, May , 2003
The ChurchÕs Role in
Africa, Trinity National Leadership Round Table, Washington DC, June 2003.
Islam and
Christianity: Cooperation and Conflict, Witherspoon Fellowship, Washington DC,
July 2003
Faith and Secularism in the US and
Worldwide, keynote address, Conference on Faith and Secularism, Princeton
University, October 2003
Apocalyptic
Terrorism in the United States, New York University, October 2003
My book The Next
Christendom was the subject of a panel discussion at the Academy of
American Religion meeting in Atlanta, GA, November 2003. It was also the
subject of a separate panel at the Evangelical Theological Society, also
meeting in Atlanta. I participated in both events.
I have on several
occasions served as a speaker and panelist for workshops on religion and
violence convened by the RAND Corporation in Arlington, VA., most recently in
January, July and December 2004
In February 2004, I
was the William Belden Noble lecturer at Harvard University, delivering three
lectures on the theme of Emerging Christianities
Ethiopia Shall Lift Up Her Hands,
Society of Pentecostal Studies, Milwaukee, WI, March 2004
In March 2004, I gave
the Albert Cardinal Meyer lectures at the University of St. Mary of the Lake
(Mundelein Seminary), in Illinois
In April 2004, I gave the keynote lecture
at the conference on The Future of the Church in a Globalized World, held at
the Center for Christian Study, in Charlottesville, VA
Truthful Reporting on Religion and
Culture, Gegrapha Conference on Journalism in Asia, held at Subic Bay,
Philippines, November 2004
Colliding Diasporas: Immigrant
Christianity in the New Europe, Institute of European Studies, University of
California, Berkeley, December 2004
The Da Vinci Code and the Quest
for Hidden Gospels, Missouri Baptist University, St Louis, MO, June 2005
Colliding Diasporas: How
Global Christianity and Global Islam Encounter Each Other In Europe, Series on Religion, Political Economy and Society
Seminar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University,
December 2005
Informed Sources: The Construction of
Terrorism, University of Ottawa, March 2006
The Global Context,
Conference on The New Evangelization, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit,
March 2006
Decade of Nightmares,
Carnegie Institute on Ethics and International Affairs, New York City, April
2006; I also spoke on this topic at the Cooper Union, New York City.
In May 2006, I was the
Commencement speaker for Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry, Pittsburgh, PA
Believing the Bible in the
Global South, Convocation Address, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA,
September 2006
The New Faces of
Christianity, Erasmus Lecture, New York City, October 2006. I also spoke on
this topic at the Carnegie Institute on Ethics and International Affairs.
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: http://pewforum.org/events/?EventID=145
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: http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/cip/islam-conference.php
GodÕs Continent: EuropeÕs Religious
Crisis, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Lecture, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC, October 2007
Religion and Science, Christian Worldview
Conference, Princeton, NJ, November 2007
Now That Faith Has Come, Plenary address,
Evangelical Theological Society, San Diego, November 2007
In December 2007, I delivered
the paper ÔBlack GangsÕ: The Perils of Counter-Subversion, to the colloque on Mimicry in Civil Wars:
The Strategic Use of Identity Signals, held at the College de France, Paris.
Islam and the Future
of Europe (with George Weigel), Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington DC,
February 2008
Islamic Europe or
Euro-Islam? Workshop on Institutionalization and Representation of Religion,
Berlin, Germany, June 2008
I have spoken frequently on
aspects of global Christianity, and the expansion of Christianity in the global
South. My recent presentations on these themes include invited lectures at:
Carnegie Institute on Ethics and International Affairs, New York
City, April 2002
Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA, September 2002
John Randolph Club, Rockford, IL, October 2002
Baylor University, Waco, TX, November 2002
St. Vincent's College, Latrobe, PA, November 2002
Anglican Congress, Atlanta, GA, December 2002
Anglican Mission in America, convention, Pawleys Island, SC,
January 2003
Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC, at the National Cathedral,
Washington
DC, February 2003
St. AnneÕs Church, Annapolis, MD, February 2003
Siena College, Albany, NY, February 2003
Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, OH, March 2003
St. Thomas University, St Paul, MN, March 2003
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 2003.
Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA (Bellarmine Lecture), April 2003.
Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, Orlando, FL, July
2003
Juniata College, PA, September 2003
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, September 2003
Catholic University of America, Washington DC, October 2003
Messiah College, Grantham, PA, October 2003
Mother Church of Christian Science, Boston, MA, October 2003
University
of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, November 2003
Overseas
Missionary Study Center, New Haven, CT, December 2003
University
of San Francisco (Paul Wattson Lecture), January 2004
Cathedral
Church of the Advent (Episcopal), Birmingham, Alabama,
February 2004
St.
MaryÕs University, San Antonio, TX, February 2004
National
Association of Evangelicals, Colorado Springs, CO, March 2004
Hanover
College, Hanover, IN, March 2004
SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, April 2004
Chicago Center for Global Ministries, April 2004
Pallium Lecture, Archdiocese of Milwaukee, May 2004
Capitol Hill Campus (Mercatus Center), Washington DC, May 2004
Virginia Baptist Missionary Board, Richmond, VA, September 2004
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, September 2004
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, September 2004
Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, October 2004
Missions Conference, San Antonio, TX, October 2004
Association of Adventist Forums, Hueston Woods, OH, October 2004
Grace Presbytery, Dallas, TX, November 2004
La Sierra University, Riverside, CA (Paul Landa lecture), February
2005
Dominican University, Chicago, February 2005
North Central University, Minneapolis, March 2005
Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, March 2005
Gordon College, Massachusetts, April 2005
Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, MD, April 2005
St MichaelÕs College, Burlington, VT (Sutherland lecture), April
2005
Wheaton College, IL, April 2005
Northern Seminary (Chicago) April 2005
Association of Vineyard Churches, Columbus, OH, May 2005
Council on Foreign Relations, Washington DC, May 2005
The Gathering, San Antonio, TX, October 2005
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, October 2005
Calvin College (January Series), January 2006
Walla Walla College, Walla Walla, WA, February 2006
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, February 2006
Houghton College, Houghton, NY, March 2006
Missions Congress, Freising, Germany, May 2006
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2006
University of Aarhus, Denmark, May 2006
Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, PA, September 2006
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 2006
St.
Vincent's College, Latrobe, PA, November 2006
Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, November 2006
Boston
College (Candlemas lecture), February 2007
Abilene
Christian University, Abilene, TX, March 2007
Church
of the Incarnation (Episcopal), Dallas, TX, March 2007
Union
College, Barbourville, KY, March 2007
Asbury
Seminary, Wilmore, KY, March 2007
Institute
on Religion and Democracy, Rosslyn, VA, March 2007
Nebraska
Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Neb., April 2007
Wycliffe
Bible Translators, Orlando, FL, June 2007
Rochester
College, Rochester, Mich., June 2007
Ablaze
Conference – Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, Houston TX, July 2007
National
Conference on Innovation, Columbus, Ohio, September 2007
Villanova
University, Villanova, PA, October 2007
Fox
Leadership Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, November 2007.
Loyola
University, Baltimore MD, January 2008
Eastern
University, Philadelphia PA, February 2008
Board
of Trustees, Centre for Theological Inquiry, Princeton NJ, February 2008
House
of Hope Presbyterian Church, St Paul, MN, February 2008
Beeson
Divinity School, Birmingham AL, March 2008
Centre
for Theological Inquiry, Princeton NJ, April 2008
Baylor
University, Waco TX, April 2008
Niagara
University, Lewiston NY, April 2008
Mormon
History Association (Tanner Lecture), Sacramento, CA, May 2008
I have also spoken
regularly on contemporary anti-Catholicism, including presentations at:
St. Vincent's College, Latrobe, PA, September 2003
Seton
Hall University, South Orange, NJ (Archbishop Gerety lecture) March 2004
Boston
College, March 2004
Canisius
College, Buffalo, NY, April 2004
John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, September 2004
St.
Louis University (De Lubac Lecture), January 2005
Over the
last decade, I have participated in (at least) several hundred interviews with
the mass media (newspapers, radio and television), and have been frequently
quoted in news reports in North America and Europe. My media appearances
include newspapers and radio stations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada,
Australia, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Brazil, as well as in many
different regions of the United States.
I
have appeared on a number of news specials and CNN documentaries covering a
variety of topics, including the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, as
well as serial murder, terrorism, and aspects of violent crime. In the
past few years, most of my media appearances have concerned the topic of global
Christianity. I was interviewed on Fox's The Beltway Boys, and on the
2003 documentary Battle for Souls (Discovery Times Channel). I have
often appeared on talk radio, including NPR's All Things Considered and Fresh
Air, and on various BBC and RTE programs. I have been a guest on the
syndicated radio programs of Diane Rehm, Michael Medved, and James Kennedy, as
well as the nationally broadcast Canadian shows Tapestry and Ideas.
EXPERT TESTIMONY
I have served as an expert witness in a number of trials and legal
hearings, drawing on my knowledge of, variously, sexual abuse by clergy; cults
and new religions, and designer drugs. Examples of this work include appearing
as a witness in a Toronto inquest, which became a major inquiry into the
regulation of rave events (May 2000).
In June 2000, I testified before the Crime Subcommittee of the
Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives, which was holding
hearings into Ecstasy and Other Club Drugs. My statement is online at http://www.house.gov/judiciary/jenk0615.htm.
This testimony was also reprinted as Ecstasy and Synthetic Panics, in the Journal
of Cognitive Liberties 1(3)(2000): 7-28.
In September 2006, I testified before the Subcommittee on
Oversight and Investigations of the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US
House of Representatives. The theme of the hearing was ÒSexual Exploitation of
Children Over the Internet.Ó My testimony can be found at http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Hearings/09262006hearing2039/Jenkins.pdf
I served as a consultant on religious matters for the US
governmentÕs 2005 report Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National
Intelligence Council's 2020 Project, online at
http://cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020.html
2007 – Booklist
rated my GodÕs Continent one of the top ten religion titles of 2007.
-The New
Faces of Christianity won Christianity TodayÕs award for the best
book in the category of Missions/Global Affairs.
2006
- The New Faces of Christianity won the Theologos award of the
Association of Theological Booksellers, for the yearÕs Best Academic Book.
-Choice
listed Decade of Nightmares as an Outstanding Title for 2006.
2003
– My book The Next Christendom won the 2003 Christianity Today
Book Award for the best book in the category of Christianity and Culture
-The
Next Christendom won the Gold Medallion book award of the Evangelical
Christian Publishers Association in the category of Christianity and Society.
-I
received Penn StateÕs Alumni Teaching Fellow Award.
2002
- The Next Christendom won the Theologos award of the Association of
Theological Booksellers, for the yearÕs Best Academic Book.
1998
- Travel Grant from the Harry S. Truman Library, in Independence, MO.
-Regional
Fellow award from the North-Eastern division of the Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences
1997-My
article Spy Mad: Investigating Subversion in Pennsylvania 1917-18 won the
Philip Klein Prize of the Pennsylvania Historical Association for the best
article published in 1995-96 in Pennsylvania History.
-Travel
Grant from the Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
-Resident
Research Fellow, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, PA
1996
- My book Using Murder won the Outstanding Book Award of the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences (award presented at the ACJS national convention in
Las Vegas, NV, March 1996).
-For
Using Murder, I also won the Distinguished Scholar award of the Crime
and Delinquency section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (award
presented in New York City, August 1996)
-I
won the Class of 1933 Award for Distinguished Humanities Scholarship, Penn
State University.
1995
- Scholar in Residence, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Funding
received from Institute of Arts and Humanistic Studies, Penn State University;
and from Office of Research and Graduate Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Penn
State University.
1994
- funding from Office of Research and Graduate Studies, College of Liberal
Arts, Penn State University.
1993
- funding from Institute of Arts and Humanistic Studies, Penn State University;
and Office of Research and Graduate Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Penn
State University.
1988
- I participated in a USIA-funded faculty exchange between Penn State and the
University of Melbourne, Australia. As Visiting Professor to the Law Faculty
at Melbourne, I gave a number of
presentations on both law and criminology, in addition to undertaking research.
1986
- My article on The Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania won the 1986 Solon J. Buck
prize for articles on Western Pennsylvania history.
1980-Present: Teaching at Pennsylvania State University
on a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in the departments of
History, Religious Studies, Criminal Justice, and American Studies. For fuller
information, see http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/classlist.html
I have reviewed manuscripts
for numerous publishers and scholarly journals. A full list of these can be
found at http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/pubrs.htm
In
2002, I served on the Commission on the Protection of Children, and Clerical
Conduct, created by Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadelphia.
Since
2002, I have served on the National Advisory Board of Washington National
Cathedral.
In
2005, I was appointed to the Advisory Board of the John Templeton Foundation.
Member,
Advisory Board, Center for Free Inquiry, Hanover College.
Member,
Board of Advisors, Center on Culture and Civil Society (Oakland, CA).
I
have also spoken extensively to community organizations: for details, see http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/community.htm
July 2008