Philip Jenkins, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities
407 Weaver
814-863-8946
jpj1@psu.edu
Fields
US history (twentieth century); Historical study of religion; Politics and modern society; comparative colonialism.
"I work in several quite diverse fields in both History and Religious Studies. Broadly, my major current interests include the study of global Christianity, past and present; of new and emerging religious movements; and of twentieth century US history, chiefly post-1975. I also have an enduring interest in issues of crime and deviance, and the construction of social problems. I have published more than twenty books, which have been translated into ten languages. Some recent titles include The Next Christendom: The Rise of Global Christianity (2002), Decade of Nightmares: The End of the 1960s and the Making of Eighties America (2006) and God's Continent: Christianity, Islam and Europe's Religious Crisis (2007) My most recent book is The Lost History of Christianity (2008), on the history of African and Asian Christianity."
Current or Recent Undergraduate Courses
Modern Christianity
Sects, Cults, and New Religious Movements
American History 1919-1945
The World At War 1939-1945
America in the 1960s
Current or Recent Graduate Courses
Beyond the Good War: Politics, Society and Culture in 1940s America
American Catholic: Roman Catholicism in Twentieth Century America
America 1974-1986: Hedonism, Moralism, Militarism.
Pro-seminar: Twentieth Century History
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