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  • IMAGES OF TERROR
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    IMAGES OF TERROR
    R.L. BRUCKBERGER / PHILIP JENKINS
    The book acts as a guide to the images of terrorism that we see daily in the mass media. The author believes that our perceptions of terrorism are formed by the interaction of bureaucratic agencies, academics and private experts. These images and stereotypes that we are offered do not necessarily reflect objective reality. ...

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  • USING MURDER
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    USING MURDER
    PHILIP JENKINS
    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 of multiple homcide. Jenkins has produced an innovative synthesis of approaches to social problem construction that includes an historical and social-scientific estimate of the objective scale o...

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  • A HISTORY OF MODERN WALES 1536-1990
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    A HISTORY OF MODERN WALES 1536-1990
    PHILIP JENKINS
    Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History ofModern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term continuities in Welsh history, and also the significant regional differences within the principality. ...

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  • THE LOST HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
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    THE LOST HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
    JOHN PHILIP JENKINS
    The New York Times bestselling history of early Christianity in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—from "one of America's best scholars of religion" ( The Economist). In this groundbreaking book, renowned scholar Philip Jenkins explores a vast and forgotten network of the world's largest and most influential Christian churches that existed to the east of the Roman Empire. These ...

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  • THE GREAT AND HOLY WAR
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    THE GREAT AND HOLY WAR
    PHILIP JENKINS
    The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the tw...

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  • LAYING DOWN THE SWORD
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    LAYING DOWN THE SWORD
    PHILIP JENKINS
    "One of America's best scholars of religion" ( The Economist ) examines the Bible's most violent verses and explains how rereading them strengthens faith. Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions—all are in the Bible, and all occur with a far greater frequency than in the Qur'an. But fanaticism is ...

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  • JESUS WARS
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    JESUS WARS
    JOHN PHILIP JENKINS
    The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the Church In this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church, PhilipJenkins describes how political maneuvers by a handful of powerful charactersshaped Christian doctrine. Were it not for these battles, today's church could beteaching something very different about the nature of Jesus, and the p...

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