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Article: Images of Terror: what we can and can't know about terrorism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know about Terrorism
By Philip Jenkins New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2003. Pp. x, 227. $24.95 paperback.
Philip Jenkins, the Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University, is perhaps best known for his recent books The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) and The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), each of which presents, in terms accessible to the layman, scholarly arguments about the changing social status of Christianity. The former book highlights the ...