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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philip Jenkins is a professor of history at Baylor University in the United States, and co-director for Baylor's Program on Historical Studies of Religion in the Institute for Studies of Religion. He is also the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University . He was professor and a distinguished professor of history and religious studies at the same institution; and also assistant, associate and then full professor of criminal justice and American studies at PSU, 1980–93.
Philip Jenkins's Published Works
Published Works
- The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (2002) (746)
- Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America (1998) (482)
- The Next Christendom (2002) (449)
- Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide (1994) (234)
- Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet (2001) (205)
- Intimate enemies : moral panics in contemporary Great Britain (1992) (204)
- The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South (2006) (185)
- Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis (1996) (127)
- God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis (2007) (106)
- Failure to Launch: Why Do Some Social Issues Fail to Detonate Moral Panics? (2009) (100)
- Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America (2006) (98)
- “The ice age” the social construction of a drug panic (1994) (80)
- The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice (2003) (78)
- The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, by George H. Nash (1999) (64)
- Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History (2000) (60)
- Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality (2004) (55)
- Serial murder in England 1940-1985 (1988) (53)
- Empires of Faith (2001) (51)
- The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died (2008) (47)
- Opioid Inaccessibility and Its Human Consequences: Reports From the Field (2010) (43)
- The Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry, 1640-1790 (1983) (32)
- Strategy of tension: The Belgian terrorist crisis 1982–1986 (1990) (32)
- Satanism: Myth and reality in a contemporary moral panic (1992) (30)
- A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990 (1990) (30)
- Serial murder in the United States 1900-1940: A historical perspective (1989) (30)
- Tory Industrialism and Town Politics: Swansea in the Eighteenth Century (1985) (29)
- Enacting dialogue: the impact of promoting Philosophy for Children on the literate thinking of identified poor readers, aged 10 (2010) (26)
- Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know About Terrorism (2003) (23)
- Demographics, Religion, and the Future of Europe (2006) (20)
- British consciousness and identity: Seventeenth-century Wales: definition and identity (1998) (19)
- A Murder "Wave"? Trends in American Serial Homicide 1940-1990 (1992) (17)
- RELIGION, REPRESSION, AND REBELLION (2007) (17)
- The Cold War at Home: The Red Scare in Pennsylvania, 1945-1960 (1999) (17)
- Catch Me before I Kill More: Seriality as Modern Monstrosity (2002) (17)
- Hoods and Shirts: The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950 (1997) (16)
- African-Americans and serial homicide (1993) (15)
- VARIETIES OF ENLIGHTENMENT CRIMINOLOGYBeccaria, Godwin, de Sade (1984) (15)
- The politics and mythology of organized crime: A Philadelphia case-study (1987) (14)
- Sharing Murder: Understanding Group Serial Homicide (1990) (14)
- Crime and justice : issues and ideas (1984) (13)
- Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States, by James W. Trent, Jr. (1997) (12)
- A History of the United States (1997) (12)
- Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way (2001) (12)
- The City and the Syndicate: Organizing Crime in Philadelphia (1985) (10)
- The Speed Capital of the World: Organizing the Methamphetamine Industry in Philadelphia 1970–1990 (1992) (8)
- Anti-popery on the Welsh Marches in the Seventeenth Century (1980) (8)
- Reading the Bible in the Global South (2006) (8)
- Under two flags: Provocation and deception in European Terrorism (1988) (8)
- The Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry, 1640-1790. (1984) (7)
- Eamon De Valera: The Man Who Was Ireland, by Tim Pat Coogan (1995) (7)
- Narcotics trafficking and the American mafia: The myth of internal prohibition (1992) (6)
- Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses (2011) (6)
- Into the upperworld ? Law, crime and punishment in English society∗ (1987) (6)
- Eugenics, crime and ideology: the case of progressive Pennsylvania. (1984) (5)
- Whose terrorists? (1988) (5)
- Images Of Terror (2003) (5)
- Godless Europe? (2007) (5)
- The Radicals and the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1890‐1930 (1982) (5)
- The Berlin Wall: Representations and Perspectives (1999) (5)
- After The Next Christendom (2004) (4)
- "A Wide-Open City:" Prostitution in Progressive Era Lancaster (1998) (4)
- Christianity Moves South (2007) (4)
- The Christian Revolution (2002) (4)
- Temperance and the origins of the new penology (1984) (3)
- The creation of an 'Ancient gentry' : Glamorgan 1760-1840 / (1984) (3)
- Ages of Gold (2021) (3)
- Clergy Sexual Abuse: The Symbolic Politics of a Social Problem (2017) (3)
- ‘The Old Leaven’: The Welsh Roundheads after 1660 (1981) (3)
- Erewhon: A manifesto of the rehabilitative ideal (1983) (3)
- Satanism and Ritual Abuse (2008) (3)
- Policing the Cold War: The Emergence of New Police Structures in Europe 1946–1953 (1988) (3)
- ‘A Welsh Lancashire’? Monmouthshire Catholics in the Eighteenth Century (1978) (3)
- "Spy Mad"? Investigating Subversion in Pennsylvania, 1917-1918 (1996) (3)
- "It Can't Happen Here": Fascism and Right-Wing Extremism in Pennsylvania, 1933-1942 (1995) (2)
- The Politics of Organized Crime in Australia: A Comparative View (1989) (2)
- Crucible of Faith: The Ancient Revolution That Made Our Modern Religious World (2017) (2)
- Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith (2021) (2)
- New Age and Neopagan Religions in America (2005) (2)
- Crime and human nature (1987) (2)
- The Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania, 1920-1940 (1986) (2)
- The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents (review) (2003) (2)
- A New History of Wales (1989) (2)
- Spy fiction and terrorism (1990) (2)
- The Next Crusade (2002) (2)
- The assassins revisited: Claire sterling and the politics of intelligence (1986) (2)
- Congregation: The Journey Back to Church, by Gary Dorsey (1996) (2)
- Changing Perceptions of Serial Murder in Contemporary England (1991) (2)
- Visions of Jesus (1999) (2)
- The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand-Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels (2015) (1)
- Book Review: Multinational Crime: Terrorism, Espionage, Drug & Arms Trafficking ("Studies in Crime, Law and Justice," Vol. 9) (1992) (1)
- The Glamorgan gentry in 1677 (1987) (1)
- Occult Survivors: The Making of a Myth (2017) (1)
- The making of a ruling class: The idea of a gentleman (1983) (1)
- What Everyone Knows (2003) (1)
- One in Ten: A Gay Mythology (1997) (1)
- The Lessons of Leicester (2002) (1)
- The making of a ruling class: Political history 1640 – 1688: the heroic age (1983) (1)
- Religion in American Society and Politics (2005) (1)
- Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883 (review) (1999) (1)
- The assassination of Olof Palme: Evidence and ideology (1989) (1)
- B. Traven: Life and Work (1988) (1)
- The Tory tradition in eighteenth-century Cardiff (1984) (1)
- Terrorism and the Mass Media (2018) (1)
- In Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the Occult by Robert D. Hicks (1992) (1)
- The Rise of the New Christianity (2002) (1)
- Another Man’s Freedom Fighter? (2018) (1)
- Christianity: A Global History, by David Chidester (2001) (1)
- Times and seasons : the cycles of the year in early modern Glamorgan. (1986) (1)
- God and the World (2002) (1)
- The End of the Chain (2009) (1)
- Muddling through: the organisation of British army chaplaincy in World War one/The Clergy in Khaki: new perspectives on British army chaplaincy in the first World War (2015) (1)
- 'The sufferings of the clergy' : the Church in Glamorgan during the Interregnum : Pt.3: The account of Edward Mansell / (1986) (1)
- The devil rides in: charismatic Christians and the depiction of a satanic menace in contemporary Great Britain (1995) (1)
- The making of a ruling class: Parliamentary service by Glamorgan landowners 1640 – 1800 (1983) (1)
- The Blues as Cultural Expression (2012) (1)
- Conclusion to Part III: ‘conspicuous antiquity’ (1983) (0)
- Darkening Heavens and a New World (2021) (0)
- Book reviews (1992) (0)
- Sexuality and Catholicism, by Thomas C. Fox; and Sex, Priests and Power: Anatomy of a Crisis, by A. W. Richard Sipe (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews: Philadelphia: A New Urban Direction, by the Office of the City Controller, City of Philadelphia (1999) (0)
- Origins: The World in 1946 (2021) (0)
- The making of a ruling class: The ‘tertiary’ families (1983) (0)
- The Assault on Priesthood: A Biblical and Theological Rejoinder by Lawrence B. Porter (2013) (0)
- Chesterton and the Anti-Catholic Tradition (1992) (0)
- What Hath Wittenberg to Do with Lagos (2016) (0)
- Seeing Christianity Again for the First Time (2002) (0)
- Sexual homicide: Patterns and motives : by Robert K. Ressler, Ann W. Burges, and John E. Douglas Lexington Books/D. C. Heath and Co. (125 Spring Street, Lexington, Massachusetts 02173), 1988, 234 pp., hardcover—$32.95. (1990) (0)
- Political history 1688 – 1790: the new order (1983) (0)
- From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East, by William Dalrymple (1998) (0)
- Abusing the Spousal Abuse Laws (1997) (0)
- Book Review: Crime History and Histories of Crime: Studies in the Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern History (1997) (0)
- Book reviews (1993) (0)
- Race and sentencing: A study in the crown court: by Roger Hood, in collaboration with Graça Cordovil. Oxford University Press (200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016), 1993, 343 pp., hardcover—$62.00, softcover—$23.00 (1994) (0)
- Party Conflict and Political Stability in Monmouthshire, 1690–1740 (1986) (0)
- Maurice, Son of Theodoric: Welsh Kings and the Mediterranean World AD550-650 (2013) (0)
- Land and people (1983) (0)
- The New Struggle (2021) (0)
- Evangelicals and Globalization (2018) (0)
- Compulsive killers: The story of modern multiple murder : Elliott Leyton. Columbia University Press (562 West 113th Street, New York, New York 10025), 1986, 318 pp., hardcover—$24.95. (1988) (0)
- The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things.By Barry Glassner. Basic Books, 1999. 276 pp (1999) (0)
- The roundhead and puritan family links of the Thomases of Wenvoe (1983) (0)
- Iraq and State Terrorism (2018) (0)
- Coming to Terms (2002) (0)
- Old and New Catholics in Stuart Wales: The Carne Family of Glamorgan (1984) (0)
- Chesterton and the Jews: Friend, Critic, Defender—a review (2015) (0)
- From Disaster to Belief (2021) (0)
- The making of a ruling class: Introduction (1983) (0)
- Trading in Faith: Christianity and Globalization? (2020) (0)
- Wales and the Order of the Royal Oak (1986) (0)
- The Racial Dimension: Serial Murder as Bias Crime (2017) (0)
- Serial Murder as Modern Mythology (2017) (0)
- Protecting Victims of Child Sexual Abuse: A Case for Caution (1988) (0)
- New-Old Gospels: Rediscovering a Spurious History (2004) (0)
- Confessions of a Convert, by Robert Hugh Benson; Memoir of Kenelm Digby, by Bernard Holland; Collected Poems, by Francis Thompson (1995) (0)
- A Chestertonian Assault (2014) (0)
- Conclusion: from Civil War to Industrial Revolution (1983) (0)
- John Clephane : a new Welsh source for the History of the Enlightenment / (1982) (0)
- “Darker Than We Imagine”: Cults and Conspiracies (2017) (0)
- Mary Wharton and the rise of the 'New Woman' (1981) (0)
- Progressive Utopias and Collectivist Nightmares (2001) (0)
- Law and order (1983) (0)
- European Arms Industries in the 1980s: A Study in Corporate Crime (1991) (0)
- The War on Heresy . By R. I. Moore. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. xiii + 378 pp. $35.00 cloth. (2013) (0)
- Who Can Stand Before His Cold? (2021) (0)
- Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in End-Time America, by Alex Heard; and Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs Throughout the Ages, by Eugen Weber (2000) (0)
- C. W. Chalklin and J. R. Wordie, editors. Town and Countryside: The English Landowner in the National Economy, 1660–1860 . Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1989. Pp. xiv, 224. $55.00. (1991) (0)
- Decolonization and Third World Struggles (2021) (0)
- The Triumph of Nice (2011) (0)
- The Construction of Problems and Panics (2017) (0)
- Revolution and Nation Building, 1765–1825 (1997) (0)
- The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity, by Thomas C. Reeves (1997) (0)
- The Struggle for Europe (2021) (0)
- Missionaries and Prophets (2002) (0)
- Book Reviews: Distinguished Dissenters and Opposition to the 1919-20 Red Scare, by W. Anthony Gengarelly. (1997) (0)
- After Darkness, Light (2021) (0)
- Book Review: Understanding Clergy Sexual Misconduct in Religious Systems: Scapegoating, Family Secrets and the Abuse of Power (1999) (0)
- Book Review: The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England: Felony Before the Courts From Edward I to the Sixteenth Century (1999) (0)
- Chestertonian Reflections on Mel Gibson's Film (2003) (0)
- The Modern Era, 1956–96 (1997) (0)
- Williamson Stanley. Gresford: The Anatomy of a Disaster. Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 1999. Pp. xviii, 243. $41.95. ISBN 0-85323-892-8. (2000) (0)
- Naming the Beast: Contemporary Apocalyptic Novels (1996) (0)
- The Legacy of Christendom (2016) (0)
- "Corruption in British Politics 1895-1930," by Geoffrey R. Searle (1990) (0)
- Popular Culture: Images of the Serial Killer (2017) (0)
- Investigation and Intelligence (2018) (0)
- Book reviews (1996) (0)
- The New Age: The First Century (2000) (0)
- Khrushchev and Kennedy (2021) (0)
- The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship ed. by Andrew Mein, Nathan Macdonald, and Matthew A. Collins (review) (2020) (0)
- Book Reviews: Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II, by Glen Jeansonne. (1996) (0)
- A Faded Sun and a Wider World (2021) (0)
- From "Eye-Witness" to "Private Eye": A Chestertonian Inheritance (1992) (0)
- A Cold Peace, or War by Other Means? (2021) (0)
- "The Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987," by Lawrence Stone (1992) (0)
- Four Minutes to Midnight: The World in 1980 (2021) (0)
- Levine David and Wrightson Keith. The Making of an Industrial Society: Whickham 1560–1765. (Oxford Studies in Social History.) New York: Oxford University Press. 1990. Pp. xxi, 456. $98.00. (1992) (0)
- Book reviews (1989) (0)
- Imaginary Hate Crimes (2007) (0)
- Church patronage and clerical politics in eighteenth-century Glamorgan (1984) (0)
- A Homosexual Who Could Strike Again (2017) (0)
- Should the Lord Tarry (2002) (0)
- War and Globalism, 1917–56 (1997) (0)
- Patriot Priests: French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I by Anita Rasi May (review) (2019) (0)
- Book Reviews: Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District 1917-1921, by Charles H. McCormick. (1998) (0)
- Resumen de tesis. The satirical reception of the new learning in english literature, 1592-1743 (2019) (0)
- Nicole Hahn Rafter. Creating Born Criminals. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 1997. Pp. xi, 284. $36.95 (1999) (0)
- Book Review: The Unexpected Christian Century: The Reversal and Transformation of Global Christianity, 1900–2000 (2016) (0)
- Behind the fridge (1981) (0)
- The Lost-Gospels's Myth (2006) (0)
- Forcing Climate (2021) (0)
- Catholic crisis, catholic solution? (2003) (0)
- Book Review: Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism (2022) (0)
- Knowing About Terrorism (2018) (0)
- Contemporary Indifference to the Persecution of Christians (1999) (0)
- Religious Reaction and the Rhetoric of Generational Danger (2016) (0)
- Conclusion (2021) (0)
- Chesterton as Criminologist (1990) (0)
- Muggeridge: The Biography, by Richard Ingrams; and Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography, by Gregory Wolfe (1998) (0)
- Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity. By David Frankfurter (2018) (0)
- The making of a ruling class: The spread of metropolitan standards (1983) (0)
- Book Review: The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (2011) (0)
- This Far by Faith: Tradition and Change in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania edited by David R. Contosta (review) (2014) (0)
- Reviewers of Madroño Manuscripts 2011 (2011) (0)
- Aftermath: towards the Victorian world (1983) (0)
- Book Review: Murder in America: A History (1997) (0)
- The making of a ruling class: Conclusion to Part I (1983) (0)
- The Reality of Serial Murder (2017) (0)
- Fighting Terrorism As If Women Mattered : Anti-Abortion Violence as Unconstructed Terrorism (2017) (0)
- The Last Floodgates of the World: Catholic Responses to Fascism (1999) (0)
- The making of a ruling class: Economic development (1983) (0)
- Essay review (1984) (0)
- 8 The Road to Hell: Ritual Abuse and Recovered Memory (2017) (0)
- Conclusion: Winners, Losers, and Inheritors (2021) (0)
- Hate Crimes and the Media (2001) (0)
- Cities and Industry, 1865–1917 (1997) (0)
- Conclusion: Making and Establishing Claims (2017) (0)
- Avoiding : Steam quality problems (1999) (0)
- American Churches and the First World War. Edited by Gordon L. Heath. Eugene, Oreg.: Pickwick, 2016. x + 213 pp. $27.00 paper. (2020) (0)
- The disturbed violent offender (1992) (0)
- Christian Martyrs Under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World. By Christian Sahner (2019) (0)
- Unnamed Lands: The European Settlement, 1492–1765 (1997) (0)
- Book reviews (1985) (0)
- The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, by Golm Tóibín (1996) (0)
- Andrew M. Coleby. Central Government and the Localities: Hampshire 1649–1689 . (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1987. Pp. xviii, 266. $44.50. (1988) (0)
- The making of a ruling class: SOCIETY AND CULTURE (1983) (0)
- BRICS OF FAITH : NEW CATEGORIES IN RELIGIOUS GEOGRAPHY (2010) (0)
- The World’s Fastest Growing Religion: Comparing Christian and Muslim Expansion in the Modern Era (2015) (0)
- Cold War Cultures (2021) (0)
- Reviewers of Madroño Manuscripts 2010 (2011) (0)
- A Critical Consumer’s Guide to Understanding Terrorism (2018) (0)
- Crisis of Ideologies: The World in 1968 (2021) (0)
- Disciples of All Nations (2002) (0)
- The American Politics of Terrorism (2018) (0)
- "The Oxford Sherlock Holmes," by Arthur Conan Doyle (1994) (0)
- The Social Critique: “The Kind of Society We Have Now” (2017) (0)
- Conclusion to Part II (1983) (0)
- The Mansell family and their connections with the greater gentry (1983) (0)
- Heresy and Orthodoxy in Recent Best-Sellers (1993) (0)
- Sideways into sociology (1998) (0)
- Church and State in Old and New Worlds . Edited by Hilary M. Carey and John Gascoigne. Brill's Series in Church History 51. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2011. xii + 346 pp. $141.00 cloth. (2012) (0)
- Expansion and Crisis, 1825–65 (1997) (0)
- National Security and Repression (2021) (0)
- Everyman: Serial Murder as “Femicide” (2017) (0)
- The Role of the Justice Department (2017) (0)
- A Warming World (2021) (0)
- Only Yesterday: The United States, 1956–2000 (2012) (0)
- 'The sufferings of the clergy' : the Church in Glamorgan during the Interregnum : Pt.2: The account of Francis Davies / (1987) (0)
- Europe: Christendom Graveyard or Christian Laboratory? (2007) (0)
- The C.T.A. case: A study in political corruption (1993) (0)
- God’s Anger and the Demons Within (2021) (0)
- The ‘secondary’ gentry families (1983) (0)
- Book reviews (1991) (0)
- Review of "The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy," by Christopher Lasch (1995) (0)
- Peacemaking and terrorism (1994) (0)
- A Global History of the Cold War, 1945-1991 (2021) (0)
- 3 The Age of the Sex Psychopath, 1935-1957 (2017) (0)
- The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage, by Ferdinand Mount (1994) (0)
- Feminism: Chesterton's Mistake about Woman? (1995) (0)
- Book review (2002) (0)
- Book review (2003) (0)
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