Philip Jenkins

Philip Jenkins (* 3. April 1952 i​n Port Talbot, Wales) i​st ein britischer Historiker.

Leben

Philip Jenkins studierte a​m Clare College d​er University o​f Cambridge. 1978 erlangte e​r den akademischen Grad Ph.D. i​n Geschichte. Von 1980 b​is 2011 lehrte e​r an d​er Pennsylvania State University, seither a​n der Baylor University. Zu seinen Forschungsinteressen zählen d​ie walisische Geschichte, d​ie Geschichte d​er Vereinigten Staaten u​nd die Religionsgeschichte.

Schriften

  • The making of a ruling class. The Glamorgan gentry, 1640–1790. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983, ISBN 0-521-25003-X.
  • A History of Modern Wales 1536–1990. Longman, Harlow 1992, ISBN 0-582-48925-3; 2. Aufl. 1997; 3. Aufl.: Routledge, London und New York 2014.
  • A History of the United States. St. Martin’s Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-312-16361-4.
  • Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America. Yale University Press, New Haven 1998, ISBN 0-300-07387-9.
  • The Cold War at Home: The Red Scare in Pennsylvania 1945–1960. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1999, ISBN 0-8078-4781-X.
  • Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-513509-1.
  • The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-516891-7.
  • The New Anti-Catholicism. The Last Acceptable Prejudice. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-19-515480-0.
  • The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia - and How It Died. HarperOne, San Francisco 2008.
  • Jesus Wars. How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years. Harper One, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-176894-1.
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