In addition to attempting to find postmodern, multiple, nontraditional interpretations of traditional biblical texts, the renowned Jesus Seminar has published texts from outside the traditional canon, heralding them as new discoveries that suggest...
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Philip Jenkins, Author . Oxford $25 (300p) ISBN 978-0-19-514616-5
At the beginning of the 21st century, the World Christian Encyclopedia reported that out of the two billion Christians alive today, 820 million of them live in Europe and North America, while Latin America has 480 million, Africa 360 million and...
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Philip Jenkins, Author . Oxford $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-19-515480-1
The American media, usually painstaking in their efforts to offend members of no racial, religious or gender category, consistently make one major exception—the Roman Catholic Church. So argues Jenkins, professor of history and religion at...
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Philip Jenkins, Author . Oxford $28 (306p) ISBN 978-0-19-516115-1
Jenkins (The Next Christendom; Mystics and Messiahs
), a professor of history and religious studies at Penn State, here trains his keen eye on the appropriation of Native American spirituality by those in the white mainstream. What do liberal white...
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Philip Jenkins, Author . Oxford Univ. $28 (344p) ISBN 978-0-19-517866-1
In a timely account, Jenkins (Dream Catchers
) argues that between 1975 and 1986, Americans reacted against '60s radicalism, setting the stage for conservatism's triumphs in the 1980s. During these years, Americans panicked: about angel dust,
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Philip Jenkins, Author . Oxford $26 (252p) ISBN 978-0-19-530065-9
In his highly acclaimed The Next Christendom
(2002), Jenkins boldly proclaimed that the center of Christianity was moving slowly out of Europe and North America to Latin America, Africa and Asia. By 2025, he points out, Africa and Latin America...
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Philip Jenkins, Author . HarperOne $26.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-06-147280-0
Revisionist history is always great fun, and never more so than when it is persuasively and cogently argued. Jenkins, the Penn State history professor whose book The Next Christendom
made waves several years ago, argues that it's not exactly a
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Philip Jenkins, Author Oxford University Press, USA $55 (304p) ISBN 978-0-19-512744-7
Although the term ""cult"" has existed only for the last century, historian Jenkins argues that America has been peppered with new religions since Plymouth Rock. He identifies several particularly fertile periods of religious innovation in the 19th...
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Philip Jenkins, Author New York University Press $65 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8147-4262-4
Politicians, media and law enforcement have ""massively over-responded"" to ""quite innocuous"" adult sexual material on the Internet, argues historian Jenkins, while doing far too little to stamp out pernicious and prevalent child porn, such as
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Philip Jenkins, Author Oxford University Press, USA $28 (340p) ISBN 978-0-19-531395-6
Jenkins loves to skewer headlines, to the point that each new book seems to present nothing less than a paradigm shift. The Next Christendom and The New Faces of Christianity announced that Christendom is moving south, its face now less European...
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Philip Jenkins. HarperOne, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-199071-7
That the Bible contains texts commanding the wholesale slaughter of people is at the heart of this most recent book by the high-profile author of Jesus Wars and The Next Christendom. Jenkins, who holds a joint appointment at Penn State University...
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Philip Jenkins. Basic, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-465-09640-4
In this absorbing and accessible account, Jenkins (The Many Faces of Christ), professor of history at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, examines monotheism in 250–50 B.C.E., a time when political, philosophical, and...
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Philip Jenkins. Oxford Univ., $29.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-19-750621-9
In this uneven study, Jenkins (Laying Down the Sword), a professor of history at Baylor, attempts to chronicle how climate change has affected religions. “Time and again, climate convulsions have been understood in religious terms,” he writes,...
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