Fall 2006 Wednesday, 4 October 3:00 p.m. 238 HRCB BYU Faculty Panel Discussion • Ted Lyon, panel chair, Latin American studies coordinator, and professor of Spanish • Paul Y. Hoskisson, Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding, and professor of Author Q&A ancient scripture and Book Signing Reception • Roger R. Keller, professor of Church history and doctrine Thursday, • Richard N. Holzapfel, associate professor 19 October of church history and doctrine 3:00 p.m. 238 HRCB • Mark L. Grover, Africa and Latin America subject specialist, Harold B. Lee Library Meet the author, discuss the lecture, and get your books signed after the lecture. Refreshments will Author Lecture Philip Jenkins be served. Distinguished Professor of History and , Pennsylvania State University Thursday, 19 October 2:00 p.m. JSB Auditorium

Philip Jenkins has written extensively on the globalization of and other topics, which are published in over twenty books and over 100 book chapters and refereed articles. Among these are his most recent book, Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality (2004), Mystics and Messiahs: and New Religions in American History (2000), the Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (2002), which won the 2003 Christianity Today Book Award, the Gold Medallion book award, and the Theologos award for the Best Academic Book, and the New Anti-Catholicism The Last Acceptable Prejudice (2003). His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and Christian Century. Among his many achievements are two teaching awards: the Pennsylvania State’s Alumni Teaching Fellow Award in 2003 and the Class of 1993 Award for Distinguished Humanities. Jenkins received a PhD from the (1978), and a double first-class honor BA in history and Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Studies (1974). During graduate school, he was a research Christianity is moving south— officer on an Oxford and Cambridge project on the history of criminal law 1790– not to the belt—but to 1914. Jenkins and his wife are the parents of six children. Latin America and Africa.