Philip Jenkins

Nación que suele suscitar las más encontradas reacciones, la imagen de los Estados Unidos de América se compone, sin embargo, en gran medida, de prejuicios y estereotipos. Esta Breve historia de Estados Unidos recorre el desarrollo historico de este pais desde los inicios de la colonizacion hasta nuestros dias, destacando no solo los grandes acontecimientos politicos y militares, sino tambien aspectos como la diversidad regional, la pluralidad cultural e ideologica, la importancia de las minorias o la relevancia que tuvieron, en determinados momentos, personajes y corrientes que hoy consideramos marginales. En un relato agil y brillante, Philip Jenkins nos muestra la vitalidad de la sociedad, la economia y la cultura norteamericanas, planteando hasta que punto se trata de una historia unica y excepcional, alejada de sus raices europeas. Esta nueva edicion de la obra actualiza sus contenidos y recoge las consecuencias que el segundo mandato del presidente Bush ha tenido en la economia del pais, en su radicalizacion politica y en la imagen internacional de Estados Unidos.

One of the world s leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals Long before the current era of man made climate change the world has suffered repeated severe climate driven shocks These shocks have resulted in famine disease violence social upheaval and mass migration But these shocks were also religious events Dramatic shifts in climate have often been understood in religious terms by the people who experienced them They were described in the language of apocalypse millennium and Judgment Often too the eras in which these shocks occurred have been marked by far reaching changes in the nature of religion and spirituality Those changes have varied widely from growing religious fervor and commitment to the stirring of mystical and apocalyptic expectations to waves of religious scapegoating and persecution or the spawning of new religious movements and revivals In many cases such responses have had lasting impacts fundamentally reshaping particular religious traditions In Climate Catastrophe and Faith historian Philip Jenkins draws out the complex relationship between religion and climate change He asserts that the religious movements and ideas that emerge from climate shocks often last

Nación que suele suscitar las más encontradas reacciones, la imagen de los Estados Unidos de América se compone, sin embargo, en gran medida, de prejuicios y estereotipos. Esta “Breve historia de Est

Nación que suele suscitar las más encontradas reacciones, la imagen de los Estados Unidos de América se compone, sin embargo, en gran medida, de prejuicios y estereotipos. Esta Breve historia de Estados Unidos recorre el desarrollo historico de este pais desde los inicios de la colonizacion hasta nuestros dias, destacando no solo los grandes acontecimientos politicos, diplomaticos y militares, sino tambien aspectos como la diversidad regional, la pluralidad cultural e ideologica, la importancia de las minorias o la relevancia que tuvieron, en determinados momentos.

Nación que suele suscitar las más encontradas reacciones, la imagen de los Estados Unidos de América se compone, sin embargo, en gran medida, de prejuicios y estereotipos. Esta BREVE HISTORIA DE ESTADOS UNIDOS recorre el desarrollo historico de este pais desde los inicios de la colonizacion hasta nuestros dias, destacando no solo los grandes acontecimientos politicos, diplomaticos y militares, sino tambien aspectos como la diversidad regional, la pluralidad cultural e ideologica, la importancia de las minorias o la relevancia que tuvieron, en determinados momentos, personajes y corrientes que hoy consideramos marginales. En un relato agil y brillante, PHILIP JENKINS nos muestra la vitalidad de la sociedad, la economia y la cultura norteamericanas, planteando hasta que punto se trata de una historia unica y excepcional, alejada de sus raices europeas. Esta nueva edicion de la obra actualiza sus contenidos y llega a recoger los atentados del 11-S, con las nuevas perspectivas que el tragico suceso ha abierto

By the year 2,050 only one Christian in five will be non-Latino and white, and the center of gravity of the Christian world will have shifted firmly to the Southern Hemisphere. The Next Christendom is the first book to take the full measure of the changing face of the Christian faith. Philip Jenkins shows that the churches that have grown most rapidly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are often more morally conservative and apocalyptic than their northern counterparts. Mysticism, puritanism, faith-healing, exorcism, and dream-visions--concepts which more liberal western churches have traded in for progressive political and social concerns--are basic to these newer churches. And the effects of such beliefs on global politics, Jenkins argues, will be enormous, as religious identification begins to take precedence over allegiance to secular nation-states. Indeed, as Christianity grows in regions where Islam is also expected to increase we may even see a return to the religious wars of the past, fought out with renewed intensity and high-tech weapons far surpassing the swords and spears of the middle ages.

This highly readable introductory guide provides a lucid and authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic, and cultural developments. Major themes examined include the relationship between territorial expansion and political history, the critical role of ethnic and racial conflict, and the shifting centers of gravity in American geography. For this new edition, Philip Jenkins reviews the events of the last decade--most notably the development of the Internet economy and the course of the Clinton presidency--and brings the story up-to-date with an analysis of 9/11/01 and its aftermath.

The standard account of early Christianity tells us that the first centuries after Jesus death witnessed an efflorescence of Christian sects, each with its own gospel. We are taught that these alternative scriptures, which represented intoxicating, daring, and often bizarre ideas, were suppressed in the fourth and fifth centuries, when the Church canonized the gospels we know today: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The rest were lost, destroyed, or hidden. In The Many Faces of Christ, the renowned religious historian Philip Jenkins thoroughly refutes our most basic assumptions about the Lost Gospels. He reveals that dozens of alternative gospels not only survived the canonization process but in many cases remained influential texts within the official Church. Whole new gospels continued to be written and accepted. For a thousand years, these strange stories about the life and death of Jesus were freely admitted onto church premises, approved for liturgical reading, read by ordinary laypeople for instruction and pleasure, and cited as authoritative by scholars and theologians. The Lost Gospels spread far and wide, crossing geographic and religious borders. The ancient Gospel of Nicodemus penetrated into Southern and Central Asia, while both Muslims and Jews wrote and propagated gospels of their own. In Europe, meanwhile, it was not until the Reformation and Counter-Reformation that the Lost Gospels were effectively driven from churches. But still, many survived, and some continue to shape Christian practice and belief in our own day. Offering a revelatory new perspective on the formation of the biblical canon, the nature of the early Church, and the evolution of Christianity, The Many Faces of Christ restores these Lost Gospels to their central place in Christian history.

One of Americas foremost scholars of religion examines the tumultuous era that gave birth to the modern Judeo-Christian tradition In The Crucible of Faith, Philip Jenkins argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between 250-50 BCE, during a turbulent "Crucible Era." It was during these years that Judaism grappled with Hellenizing forces and produced new religious ideas that reflected and responded to their changing world. By the time of the fall of the Temple in 70 CE, concepts that might once have seemed bizarre became normalized-and thus passed on to Christianity and later Islam. Drawing widely on contemporary sources from outside the canonical Old and New Testaments, Jenkins reveals an era of political violence and social upheaval that ultimately gave birth to entirely new ideas about religion, the afterlife, Creation and the Fall, and the nature of God and Satan.

Las religiones mueren. En el curso de la historia, algunas se desvanecen por completo y otras, que un día fueron mundiales, pasan a tener solo un puñado de adeptos. En algunos casos, sobreviven en ciertas partes del mundo, pero se extinguen en territorios

Nación que suele suscitar las más encontradas reacciones, la imagen de los Estados Unidos de América se compone, sin embargo, en gran medida, de prejuicios y estereotipos. Esta "Breve historia de Estados Unidos" recorre el desarrollo historico de este pais desde los inicios de la colonizacion hasta nuestros dias, destacando no solo los grandes acontecimientos politicos y militares, sino tambien aspectos como la diversidad regional, la pluralidad cultural e ideologica, la importancia de las minorias o la relevancia que tuvieron, en determinados momentos, personajes y corrientes que hoy consideramos marginales. En un relato agil y brillante, Philip Jenkins nos muestra la vitalidad de la sociedad, la economia y la cultura norteamericanas, planteando hasta que punto se trata de una historia unica y excepcional, alejada de sus raices europeas. Esta quinta edicion de la obra, nuevamente revisada y actualizada, lleva su desarrollo hasta la eleccion presidencial de 2016 que puso a Donald Trump en la Casa Blanca, y toca asuntos recientes como el movimiento "Black Lives Matter", la legalizacion del matrimonio gay o la transformacion del escenario geopolitico mundial.

Nación que suele suscitar las más encontradas reacciones, la imagen de los Estados Unidos de América se compone, sin embargo, en gran medida, de prejuicios y estereotipos. Esta "Breve historia de Estados Unidos" recorre el desarrollo historico de este pais desde los inicios de la colonizacion hasta nuestros dias, destacando no solo los grandes acontecimientos politicos y militares, sino tambien aspectos como la diversidad regional, la pluralidad cultural e ideologica, la importancia de las minorias o la relevancia que tuvieron, en determinados momentos, personajes y corrientes que hoy consideramos marginales. En un relato agil y brillante, Philip Jenkins nos muestra la vitalidad de la sociedad, la economia y la cultura norteamericanas, planteando hasta que punto se trata de una historia unica y excepcional, alejada de sus raices europeas. Esta quinta edicion de la obra, nuevamente revisada y actualizada, lleva su desarrollo hasta la eleccion presidencial de 2016 que puso a Donald Trump en la Casa Blanca, y toca asuntos recientes como el movimiento "Black Lives Matter", la legalizacion del matrimonio gay o la transformacion del escenario geopolitico mundial.