Institute for Studies of Religion
Baylor University
One Bear Place #97236
Waco, TX 76798
and
History Department
407 Weaver Building,
University Park, PA, 16802.
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.
My books have been widely reviewed.
To date, my books have been
translated into fifteen languages: Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, German, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Latvian, 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.
This book is being translated into
Russian.
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 Latvian, Serbian
and Portuguese.
The
Spanish edition appeared from Madrid's Alianza Editorial in 2002: 409 pages.
A second Spanish edition
appeared in 2005: 431 pages.
Third
Spanish edition 2009: 452 pages.
Fourth
Spanish edition, 2012: 510 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:
Maurice, Son of
Theodoric: Welsh Kings and the Mediterranean World, 550-650AD, in North American Journal of Welsh Studies,
forthcoming.
A Critic In The
Desert: Robert Browning and the Limits of Plain Historic Fact, Fides et Historia
45 Winter/Spring, March 2013, forthcoming.
Foreword, to Conrad L. Kanagy et al,
Winds of the Spirit (Harrisonburg,
VA: Herald, 2012), 9-11.
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).
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: in Dennis R. Hoover and Douglas M. Johnston, eds., Religion and Foreign Affairs (Waco,
Tex: Baylor University Press, 2012).
*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.
Journalism
in Magazines and Newspapers
I have published extensively in magazines and newspapers,
including both major articles as well as shorter opinion and op-ed pieces. Among
many other publications, my work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street
Journal, New Republic, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Christian
Century, USA Today, First Things, American Conservative, and Books
and Culture. I have also written for many European publications. Some
examples of this writing from the past couple of years include:
The Passion of
Pope Victor, National
Interest, January-February 2010, 62-72.
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.
Any Faith Can Become Violent, USA
Today, April 19, 2010, also reprinted at
The
Myth of a Catholic Crisis, American Conservative,
June 2010: 26-28.
Gone
South, New Republic, April 29, 2010.
How Serious is
the 'Predator Priest' Problem? USA
Today, June 7, 2010.
Hoe het christendom uit het Midden-Oosten
verdween, Volkskrant
(Netherlands), December 24, 2010.
Pulp Fictions, Books and Culture, May-June 2011: 18-19.
How the King James Bible Changed the World, Baylor
Magazine, Summer 2011: 26-32.
Three Martyrs, American Conservative, August 2011.
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.
Back
to the Future, Books and Culture,
January-February 2012: 33-34.
At DeathŐs
Altar, Books and Culture, March-April
2012: 14-15.
That
Long Burning, Books and Culture,
November-December 2012: 16-17.
Euro Skepticism: Why Benedict XVI Tried, And Failed, To
Evangelize Europe, New Republic, February 13, 2013.
Waco's
Assault on Religious Toleration, Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2013.
Waco in Red and Blue, Christian
Century, May 15, 2013: 28-31
The Pope From
Beyond the Seas, Chronicle
of Higher Education, March 2013.
Charles Williams, Playwright, Books
and Culture, May-June 2013: 22-24
Since
2008, I have published a monthly column in the Christian Century under the title Notes from the
Global Church.
I write regular
columns for a number of other outlets, including Chronicles Magazine, and RealClearReligion.
Since 1985, I have published over a hundred book reviews.
PAPERS PRESENTED AND INVITED LECTURES
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.
In addition, I have given invited lectures to a wide variety of
groups. Over the past decade I have spoken at more than 150 universities,
colleges and seminaries in North America and Europe.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
A Critic In The
Desert: Robert Browning and the Limits of Plain Historic Fact, Conference on The Cross and the
Book, Baylor University, Waco TX, February 2012.
Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and Charismatics,
International Conference on New Religious Movements as a Challenge for the
Catholic Church, organized by the German Bishops' Conference, Rome, Italy,
April 2013.
Remember Waco! The Disaster in Politics and Popular
Culture, Conference on Reflecting on an American Tragedy, Baylor University,
Waco, TX, April 2013.
Christianity and
World History, Wilberforce Weekend (Colson Center), Arlington VA, April 2013.
In addition to these lectures and
seminars, I have also spoken frequently in different venues in the US and
overseas, chiefly on aspects of global Christianity, and the expansion of
Christianity in the global South. Since 2002, I have given about 130 such lectures.
Over the last decade, I have also 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?
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. 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.
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.
1980-2011: 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.
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.
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INVOLVEMENT WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
May 2013