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Jessica Mackinnon
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Mazzuchelli Lecture to Focus on World Christianity

Dominican University will present renowned author Philip Jenkins in the annual Mazzuchelli Lecture on Wednesday, February 23 in the Lund Auditorium, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest. Jenkins will address the topic, “World Christianity: Global Religion in Transition.”

Jenkins is a professor of religion and history at Pennsylvania State University and author of acclaimed books such as The Next Christendom, Pedophiles and Priests, The New Anti-Catholicism, and Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality.

In The New Anti-Catholicism, Jenkins explores what he feels has been a historic bias against the Catholic Church in the American media, from conservative leaning media during an earlier era to the liberal secular media of today. In The Next Christendom, Jenkins describes the southward expansion of Christianity into Africa, Asian and Latin America. He predicts that by the year 2050 only about one-fifth of the world’s three billion Christians will be non-Hispanic Caucasians and warns of the potential for the replacement of secular nations with traditional, morally conservative theocracies similar to those found in the Islamic Arab world.

Drawing on his wide-ranging work, Jenkins will address the future of Christianity and religion around the globe, with emphasis on how current trends in international religion are likely to affect the United States.

For more information about this lecture, which is free and open to the public, please call Dominican University’s Siena Center at (708) 714-9110.