James W. Jones

Publications:
The Fundamentalist Mindset , Co-edited with Charles Strozier, David Terman , & Kathy Boyd, to which I have contributed two chapters, “Eternal Warfare: Violence on the Mind of American Apocalyptic Christianity” and “The Fundamentalist Mindset: What have we learned?” and a co-written chapter “The Charismatic Leader and the Totalism of Conversion.” NY: Oxford University press, 2010

Religie en het Relationele Zelf [/Religion and the Relational Self/], Tillburg. Netherlands: KSGV Press, 2010. [A collection of my essays published in Dutch].

“Psychotherapeutic Change and Spiritual Transformation: The Interaction Effect,” Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, 2010, 6/2: 109-117.

“Knowing and Unknowing God: A Psychoanalytic Meditation” in Healing Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Ann B. Ulanov, (ed) K. Greider, D. Hunsinger, F. Kelcorse, Grand Rapids, Mi.: Eerdmans, 2010, pp. 109-124.

Activities:
Invited to conduct a week long seminar on religion in contemporary society at the Europaisches Forum Alpbach in Alpbach Austria, August 18-25, 2010. There I also served on a panel on “social constructionism” and gave a special seminar on religious terrorism. This Forum is a major event that brings together students, academics, political and economic leaders from around Europe to discuss current problems.

Invited to participate in a week long round table on “Terrorism: The Clear and Present Danger,” at Oxford University, England, July 18-25, 2010 and to present a paper on “Motivation in Religious Terrorism.” This seminar brought together experts on terrorism from a variety of disciplines and from around the world.

Invited plenary address, “Mimesis and the Globalization of Religious Terror,” at a conference on Transforming Violence, The University of Notre Dame, July 2, 2010.

Invited Lecture “The Psychology of Sacred Terror: Or How Religion Changes Things for the Worse,” at the International Counter-Terrorism Conference and Exposition/, London, England, April 15, 2010. This conference in London is one of the major international conferences on terrorism and counter-terrorism involving academics, law enforcement, intelligence officers, military, and policy experts. I also spoke last year and it is very unusual to be invited to address the conference twice.

Invited to be a co-editor of a series of Handbooks on Psychology of Religion to be Published by the American Psychological Association. In the discipline of psychology, to be invited by the American Psychological Association to be an associate editor of a book series is a real honor.