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Believing the Bible in the Global South
Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way pe...
Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses
Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions—all are in the Bible, and ...
Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain
Intimate Enemies describes the creation of a journalistically induced panic in Great Britain during the the 1980s - a decade of intense concern about ...
How World War I changed religion for ever
The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War, and the lasting impact it had on Christianity ...
What does the future hold for European Christianity? Is the Christian church doomed to collapse under the weight of globalization, Western secularism,...
The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains asc...
The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Offers an analysis of prejudice against Catholics, arguing that anti-Catholicism can be seen in all areas of American culture, including movies, telev...
The Symbolic Politics of Designer Drugs
America has a long history of drug panics in which countless social problems have been blamed on the devastating effects of some harmful substance. In...
How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality
In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on re...
How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
"[The author] draws out the complex relationship between religion and climate change. He shows that the religious movements and ideas that emerge from...
The Coming of Global Christianity
This new and substantially expanded edition of Philip Jenkins's influential book The Next Christendom tracks the remarkable expansion of Christianity ...
Cults and New Religions in American History
In this full-length account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history, Jenkins gives accurate historical perspective and shows how many of tod...
How World War I Became a Religious Crusade
The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbre...
The Many Lives of Psalm 91
"Jews and Christians alike have made Psalm 91 one of the most commonly used and cited parts of the Bible. The psalm has shaped theories of politics an...
Child Pornography on the Internet
Jenkins looks at the first amendment and how it should be applied to child pornography on the internet....
The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died
The New York Times bestselling history of early Christianity in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—from “one of America’s best scholars of religi...
The Ancient Revolution That Made Our Modern Religious World
One of America's foremost scholars of religion examines the tumultuous era that gave birth to the modern Judeo-Christian tradition In The Crucible of ...
Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
If we can believe the six o'clock news, there has been an epidemic of sexual abuse among the clergy, and especially among the Roman Catholic clergy. T...
The Social Construction of Serial Homicide
First published in 1994, this book investigates the social construction of serial homicide and assesses the concern that popular fears and stereotypes...
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How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years
The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the Church In this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church, Phil...
The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950
Extreme right-wing groups have always been a part of the American religious and political landscape. The era between the world wars, especially the 19...
The New Nexus in International Relations
Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations focuses on a groundbreaking theme. In global security today, religion is not only part...
A Conversation
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidentia...
How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way
Debunks the claims that recently discovered texts such as the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary undermine the historical validity of the New Tes...
Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis
The United States in the 21st Century
The US continues to be the world's most powerful nation, an enormous driver of culture and technology. The present century has witnessed many momentou...
This succinct account of the United States’ history gives a clear, introductory overview of the nation from European settlement in 1492 through colo...
The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World Religions
"Analyzes recent global trends indicating a correlation between a society's fertility rates and degree of secularization"--...
What We Can and Can't Know about Terrorism
The book acts as a guide to the images of terrorism that we see daily in the mass media. The author believes that our perceptions of terrorism are for...
How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided what Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years
Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth cent...
The Red Scare in Pennsylvania, 1945-1960
One of the most significant industrial states in the country, with a powerful radical tradition, Pennsylvania was, by the early 1950s, the scene of so...
Social Construction of Serial Homicide
The Glamorgan Gentry 1640-1790
A study of the formation of a new ruling class in the years prior to British industrialisation....
Organizing Crime in Philadelphia
By 2025, 75% of Catholics in the world will be non-European . The new global church will have its center of gravity in Latin America, Asia and Africa....
How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions
"Provides an extensive historical and sociological analysis of the interactions between religions and empires from the ancient world to the present"--...
Perhaps more than any generation that has preceded them, today's teens are messengers. With innumerable ways to communicate to their friends as well a...