In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate
the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin …

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 the last forty years, such …

… Philip Jenkins argues that all concepts of sex offenders and offenses are subject to social,
political, and ideological influences and that no particular view of offenders represents an …

The global problem of antimicrobial resistance is particularly pressing in developing countries,
where the infectious disease burden is high and cost constraints prevent the widespread …

Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally
successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the …

First published in 1994, this book investigates the social construction of serial homicide and
assesses the concern that popular fears and stereotypes have exaggerated: the actual scale …

Jenkins' book traces how such problems were reformulated in the course of the decade,
and how they came to be seen as major menaces to society. It discusses the motivations of …

… Philip Jenkins takes a leap onto the lower tiers of electronic media in this first book on the …
Jenkins details how the most sophisticated transactions are done through a proxy, a “false flag” …

… Philip Jenkins Philip Jenkins (jpj1@psu.edu) is the distinguished professor of history and
religious studies at Pennsylvania State University. His book The Next Christendom: The …

… just such a scenario, Philip Jenkins reveals the flaws in these … While frankly acknowledging
current tensions, Jenkins shows, … Jenkins agrees that both Christianity and Islam face real …