PHILIP JENKINS
Institute for Studies of Religion
Baylor University
One Bear Place #97236
Waco, TX 76798
http://www.baylor.edu/history/index.php?id=87862
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).
2012-present Distinguished
Professor of History, Baylor University; and Co-Director for the Program on
Historical Studies of Religion, Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University.
2012-present Emeritus
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities, Pennsylvania State University.
2009-2011 Distinguished
Senior Fellow, Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University.
2007-2011
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
twenty-four books, and about 120 book chapters and refereed articles.
A full listing of reviews
of my books can be found at http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/reviews.htm
To date, my books have been
translated into fourteen languages: Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, German, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian and
Spanish.
Books
Laying Down the
Sword: Why We CanŐt Ignore the BibleŐs Violent Verses
San Francisco: HarperOne, 2011. 310 pages.
Jesus Wars: How Four
Patriarchs, Three Queens, And Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would
Believe For The Next 1,500 Years
San Francisco: HarperOne, 2010. 328 pages.
This book is being translated into
Polish, Portuguese and Russian.
The Lost History of
Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East,
Africa, and Asia--and How It Died
San Francisco: HarperOne, 2008. 315 pages.
A German version of this book appeared as Das goldene Zeitalter des Christentums: Die vergessene
Geschichte der grš§ten Weltreligion (Freiburg: Herder, 2010).
The Dutch version is Het vergeten
Christendom: De
duizendjarige bloeitijd van de kerk in het Midden-Oosten, Afrika en Azi‘ (Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam, 2011).
This book is also being translated
into Japanese and Korean.
GodŐs Continent:
Christianity, Islam and EuropeŐs 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 Italian
edition appeared as Il Dio dell'Europa: Il cristianesimo e l'islam in un continente che cambia (Editrice
Missionaria Italian, 2009)
The Dutch
edition is Gods Wereld Deel
(Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam, 2010)
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).
The
third edition appeared from Oxford in 2011 (346 pages)
This
book is also being translated into several other languages, including
Portuguese and Slovenian.
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
The
Polish edition appeared as Chrześcijaństwo
Przyszłości (Warsaw: Verbinium,
2009)
The
Korean edition appeared in 2009
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
Chapel
Hill, NC: 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.MartinŐs Press, 1997. 317 pages.
Second
edition, London: Palgrave Press, 2002: 330 pages.
Third
edition, London: Palgrave, 2007: 338 pages.
Fourth
edition, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012: 336 pages.
This
book is being translated into several other languages, including Serbian.
The
Spanish edition appeared from Madrid's Alianza Editorial in 2002: 409 pages. A
second edition appeared in 2005: 431 pages. Third edition 2009: 452 pages
The
Romanian edition, O Istorie A Statelor
Unite, appeared from BucharestŐs Editura Artemis in 2002: 286 pages.
The Estonian
edition was published as Ameerika
†hendriikide Ajalugu (Tallinn, Estonia: Kirjastus Valgus, 2005): 308
pages.
The Polish
translation appeared under the title Historia Stan—w Zjednoczonych (Krakow: Jagiellonian
University Press, 2009): 302 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 Schźrer, Manfred Keune and Philip Jenkins, eds., The Berlin Wall: Representations and
Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. 388 pages.
Ernst Schźrer 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
Regions Luther Never Knew, in David Lyle Jeffrey, ed., The King James Bible and the World it Made
(Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2011): 119-34
The Globalization of Christianity, in Wilhelm Krull, ed., Research
and Responsibility: Reflections on Our
Common Future (Leipzig: CEP
EuropŠische Verlagsanstalt, 2011), 287-304
Foreword to Peter Wehner and Arthur C. Brooks, Wealth and Justice: The Morality of
Democratic Capitalism (Washington DC: AEI Press, 2011), ix-xxi.
Dialogue with Richard E. Rubenstein about my
book Jesus Wars, in Conversations in Religion and Theology
8(2) (2010): 150-159.
Foreword to Harry Sylvester, Dayspring, reprinted edition (San
Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009), at http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2009/pjenkins_frwddayspring_dec09.asp
Letting Go: Understanding Mormon Growth in
Africa, in Journal of Mormon History,
35(2)(2009): 1-25.
A World That Hates Gays, in Russ Kick, ed., You Are Still Being Lied To, second
edition (New York; Disinformation Books, 2009): 227-239.
Failure To Launch: Why Do Some Social Issues
Fail to Detonate Moral Panics? British
Journal of Criminology 49(2009): 35-47.
The Christian Revolution, in Frank J. Lechner
and John Boli, eds., The Globalization
Reader 3rd ed. (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008): 379-86.
Trends in Global Christianity, in Steven
Boguslawski and Ralph Martin, eds., The
New Evangelization: Overcoming the Obstacles (New York: Paulist Press,
2008): 142-53.
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
examples of this writing from the past decade or so 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, at http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200210/jenkins
and see also http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200209u/int2002-09-12
*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
(Zźrich) 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 EastŐs 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.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200311/jenkins
Now, Think About The Age Of Consent, Dallas Morning News, March 7, 2004.
GibsonŐs 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 Sźdens, Sźddeutsche Zeitung,
April 5, 2005.
*This
article was reprinted in the Tages-Anzeiger
(Zźrich), as Das Herz der Kirche SchlŠgt im Sźden (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) Jun 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.
EuropeŐs Christian Comeback, Foreign
Policy, June 2007, online at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3881
This article also appeared in Dutch translation, in Reformatorisch Dagblad, June 22, 2007,
at
http://www.refdag.nl/artikel/1306928/Christendom+maakt+comeback.html
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, at http://www.tnr.com/blog/openuniversity.
Neuer Wein in alten BrŠuchen: Die erstaunlich religišse Zukunft
Europas, Sźddeutsche 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 WouldnŐt 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.
Auch bei Muslimen kommen Kinder aus der Mode, Welt am Sonntag, January 27, 2008. http://www.welt.de/wams_print/article1600238/Auch_bei_Muslimen_kommen_Kinder_aus_der_Mode.html
Homegrown Terrorism, Los
Angeles Times, March 8, 2008.
*This
article was reprinted in other newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, March 23, 2008.
Wie der Westen die Muslime islamisiert, Welt am Sonntag, May 24, 2008. http://www.welt.de/politik/article2029792/Wie_der_Westen_die_Muslime_islamisiert.html
Long-Lost Christians,
Christian Century, November 4, 2008: 22-26
(excerpted from my book The Lost History of Christianity).
Is Europe Trying to
Build a Fundamentalist Islam? November 2008.
http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1057/i.html
When Jesus Met Buddha, Boston
Globe, Ideas section, December 14, 2008.
The Spirit of 76, American
Conservative, December 15, 2008: 6-9.
Clerical Terror, New
Republic, December 24, 2008: 7-9.
Recovering Church History: Exile from Babylon, Christianity Today, December 31, 2008. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/decemberweb-only/153-31.0.html
Mystical Power, Boston Globe,
Ideas section, January 25, 2009.
The DevilŐs Publicist, Foreign
Policy, February 4, 2009. http://experts.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/02/04/what_was_benedict_thinking
The United States of Argentina, American Conservative, February 9, 2009: 6-8.
Back to Jerusalem, PurposeDriven.com,
February 12, 2009, at
http://www.purposedriven.com/article.do?method=articlePage&contentId=120833
Dark Passages, Boston Globe,
Ideas section, March 8, 2009.
*This
article was reprinted in the Iran
Times International, May 1, 2009.
Terror Begins at Home, American
Conservative, March 23, 2009: 16-18.
The Forgotten Christian World, History
Today, April 2009: 32-39.
Their Separate Ways, Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2009.
Die Macho-Reformation, Rheinischer
Merkur, July 30, 2009, at http://www.rheinischer-merkur.de/index.php?id=36042
Iraq,
il Dramma dei Cristiani Dimenticati, Il
Riformista (Rome) September 8, 2009
In
Search of Lost Christian Worlds, in Mysteries
of Faith, US News and World Report Special issue, 2009: 22-29 (Excerpted
from my book Lost History of Christianity)
Esuli
da Babilonia: Lamento per le Chiese dŐOriente, Vita e Pensiero (Milan), July-August 2009: 17-21
The
Passion of Pope Victor, National Interest,
January-February 2010, 62-72, at http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=22604
Fighting
Words, Christian Century, March 23,
2010: 22-25
Third-World War, American Conservative April 2010: 22-24
How The Jesus Wars Tore The Christian World Apart, Bible Interpretation, April 2010, at http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/war357908.shtml
Any Faith Can Become
Violent, USA Today, April 19, 2010,
at
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-04-19-column19_ST_N.htm and reprinted at
The Myth of a Catholic
Crisis, American Conservative, June
2010: 26-28, at http://amconmag.com/article/2010/jun/01/00026/
Gone South, New Republic, April 29, 2010, at http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/gone-south
How Serious is the 'Predator Priest' Problem? USA Today, June 7, 2010, at http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-06-07-column07_ST_N.htm
Hoe het
christendom uit het Midden-Oosten verdween, Volkskrant
(Netherlands), December 24, 2010, at http://opinie.volkskrant.nl/artikel/show/id/7475/Hoe_het_christendom_uit_het_Midden-Oosten_verdween
The
Muslim World's Coming European Revolution, RealClearReligion, April 2011, http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2011/04/04/the_muslim_worlds_coming_european_revolution_106230.html
Death
Warrant of Ancient Christianity, RealClearReligion, April 2011,
Immigrants Are American Religion, RealClearReligion, April 2011,
http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2011/04/18/immigrants_are_american_religion_106237.html
EuropeŐs
Supposed Islamic Crisis, RealClearReligion, April 2011, http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2011/04/25/europes_supposed_islamic_crisis_106239.html
Pulp Fictions, Books and Culture, May-June 2011: 18-19
How the King James Bible
Changed the World, Baylor Magazine,
Summer 2011: 26-32, at http://www.baylor.edu/alumni/magazine/0904/news.php?action=story&story=95758
Three Martyrs, American
Conservative, August 2011, at
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/08/11/three-martyrs/
Cristianesimo
e Islam nel Mondo Globale, Vita e
Pensiero (Milan) September 2011: 8-14
After
al-Qaeda, American Conservative, September
2011: 26-29
9/11:
Did the QurŐan Really Make Them Do It? Debate with R. Scott Appleby, September
2011, at
http://blogs.nd.edu/contendingmodernities/2011/09/10/911-did-the-quran-make-them-do-it/
Back to the Future, Books
and Culture, January-February 2012: 33-34
http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2012/02/15/faith_no_faith_and_21_babies.html
At
DeathŐs Altar, Books and Culture,
March-April 2012: 14-15
Since 2008, I have published a monthly column in the Christian Century under the title Notes
from the Global Church: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/century.htm
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
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, at http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.1608/pub_detail.asp
Islam
in The American Experience, History Day lecture, Foreign Policy Research
Institute, Bryn Mawr, PA, May 2003. This paper was circulated in FPRIŐs 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.
DavidŐs, PA, May, 2003.
The ChurchŐs 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.
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. Video available at http://fora.tv/2006/09/20/Philip_Jenkins
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
GodŐs
Continent: EuropeŐs 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 Black
Gangs: The Perils of Counter-Subversion, to the colloque on Mimicry
in Civil Wars, held at the CollŹge 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.
The Transformation of
Gender and Family in Emerging Asian Christianity, Summit on Chinese Spirituality
and Society, Beijing, China, October 2008.
A Little Leaven: From
Mass Church to Creative Minority in Contemporary Europe, Symposium on
Secularization and Revival, Baylor University, Waco, TX, October 2009.
Religious America and Secular Holland: Future Trends, Conference on Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2009.
The Futures of
Christianity, Svenska Kyrkans Forskardagar, Teologiska Hšgskolan Stockholm,
Sweden, December 2009.
Have the Culture Wars
Gone Global? The Faith Angle: Conference on Religion, Politics and Public Life,
South Beach, FL, March 2010.
Future Trends in
Religion, Panelist, with George Gallup, jr, and Roger Finke, University Park,
PA, April 2010.
The World's Religious
Map in 2050, Penn State Forum, University Park, PA, April 2010.
Religious
Authority and the Challenges of Modernity, The Archbishop of CanterburyŐs
Building Bridges Seminar, Georgetown University, May 2010.
The Bible in a
Changing Christian World, keynote lecture at United Bible Societies World
Assembly, Seoul, Republic of Korea, September 2010.
The BRICs of Faith,
Baylor University, Waco TX, October 2010.
The Globalization of
Christianity, keynote lecture at conference on Our Common Future, Essen, Germany, November 2010.
The Other
Camp of the Saints: Comparing
Christian and Muslim Narratives of Global Expansion in the Modern Era, American
Society of Church History, Boston, MA, January 2011
I
co-organized the conference The King James Bible and the World It Made
1611-2011, which was held at Baylor University in April 2011. I also presented
a plenary lecture at this event entitled Regions Luther Never Knew: Ancient
Books in a New World.
The Lost History of Christianity, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, May 2011.
Religion in Modern
Europe, K‡roli G‡sp‡r University,
Budapest, Hungary, May 2011.
Christianity, Islam and EuropeŐs Religious Crisis, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2011.
Eight Lessons from
the History of Terrorism, Conference on The Future of Terrorism II, University
Park, PA October 2011.
I
participated in a panel on Confronting Islamophobia at the annual conference of
the American Academy of Religion, held in San Francisco, November 2011. I also
chaired a panel at this conference on Global Charismatic and Pentecostal
Healing.
Laying Down the
Sword, Baylor University, Waco TX, February 2012.
I have spoken frequently in
different venues, chiefly on aspects of global Christianity, and the expansion
of Christianity in the global South. My presentations 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, PawleyŐs Island, SC, January 2003
National Cathedral, Washington
DC,
February 2003
St. AnneŐs 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, April 2003.
Evangelical Christian
Publishers Association, Orlando, FL, July 2003
Juniata College, PA,
September 2003
St. Vincent's College, Latrobe, 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, January 2004
Cathedral
Church of the Advent (Episcopal), Birmingham, Alabama,
February 2004
St.
MaryŐs University, San Antonio, TX, February 2004
National
Association of Evangelicals, Colorado Springs, CO, March 2004
Hanover
College, Hanover, IN, March 2004
Seton
Hall University, South Orange, NJ, March 2004
Boston
College, March 2004
Canisius
College, Buffalo, NY, April 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
John Carroll University,
Cleveland, OH, 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
St. Louis University, January 2005
La Sierra University,
Riverside, CA, 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 MichaelŐs 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
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
Covenant
College Leadership Forum, Reynolds Plantation, GA, September 2008
KingŐs
College, Wilkes-Barre, PA, October 2008
King
College, Bristol, TN, October 2008
Indiana
Wesleyan University, November 2008
Aurora
University, Aurora, IL, January 2009
Grove
City College, PA, February 2009
Bethel
University, St. Paul, MN, February 2009
Air
Command and Staff College (USAF), Montgomery, AL, March 2009
Pepperdine
University, Malibu, CA, March 2009
St
AndrewŐs Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC, April 2009
Youth
Conference, Assyrian Catholic Church of the East, San Jose CA, July 2009
Duke Divinity School, Durham,
NC, October 2009
Campbell University, North
Carolina, February 2010
Veritas Forum, Texas A&M
University, February 2010
George W. Truett Theological Seminary,
Waco, TX, March 2010
Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA, March
2010
International Forum of Bible Agencies
(FOBAI), Fort Worth, TX, April 2010
Boardman Lecture, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, April 2010
International Lutheran Council - World
Seminaries Conference, Fort Wayne, IN,
June 2010
Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm
Beach, FL, October 2010
Grosse
Pointe Memorial Church, Michigan, December 2010
Myers Park United Methodist Church,
Charlotte NC, February 2011
Union/PSCE Presbyterian Seminary,
Charlotte NC, February 2011
Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA, March 2011
Hope For Europe II, Budapest, Hungary,
May 2011
McMaster Divinity School, Hamilton,
Ontario, June 2011
Maryknoll Seminary Alumni, Maryknoll, NY,
September 2011
Derry Presbyterian Church, Hershey PA,
October 2011
First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
PA, October 2011
Canisius
College, Buffalo, NY, November 2011
Bishop
Elliott Society, San Antonio TX, November 2011
Synergize
3, Orlando FL, January 2012
Oklahoma
Baptist University, Shawnee, OK, February 2012
Butler
University, Indianapolis, IN, February 2012
Malone
University, Canton OH, March 2012
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 appeared on the History Channel special,
Time Machine: 70's Fever (2009).
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, Currents, and Ideas. In March 2010, I was interviewed on NPRŐs
All Things Considered on the topic
of, Is the Bible More Violent Than The Quran?, at http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=124494788
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;
contemporary US religion; cults and new religions, and designer drugs.
In 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 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 Sexual Exploitation of Children
Over the Internet. My testimony can be found at http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Hearings/09262006hearing2039/Jenkins.pdf
2010
– Booklist included my Jesus Wars among the yearŐs top ten
titles in Religion and Spirituality.
2009
– Booklist included my Lost History of Christianity among the
yearŐs top ten religion titles.
2007
– Booklist rated my GodŐs Continent one of the top ten
religion titles of 2007.
-The New Faces
of Christianity won Christianity
TodayŐs 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 yearŐs 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 StateŐs Alumni Teaching Fellow Award.
2002 - The Next Christendom
won the Theologos award of the Association of Theological Booksellers, for the
yearŐs 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.
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
My teaching evaluations can be found at
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/evaluations.htm
Member, Editorial Board, Oxford Studies in World Christianity.
Since 2009, I have been a
contributing editor for the American
Conservative.
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.
I also served on the National Advisory Board of Washington
National Cathedral.
Member, Advisory Board of the John Templeton Foundation,
2005-2008.
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
March 2012