James W. Jones, Psy.D., Ph.D., Th.D.

James W. Jones, PsyD, Ph.D., Th.D., is a Professor of Religion and an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow, Center on Terrorism, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a licensed clinical psychologist.

He is the author of twelve books including In The Middle Of This Road We Call Our Life; Terror and Transformation: the Ambiguity of Religion; Waking From Newton's Sleep: Dialogues on Spirituality in an Age of Science, and most recently Blood That Cries Out From the Earth: The Psychology of Religious Terrorism, and co-editor of The Fundamentalist Mindset as well as numerous professional papers. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological association, from which he received an award, in 1993, for his contributions to the field of psychology of religion. He currently serves on the editorial board of several journals in the US and Europe, and as an associate editor of the HandBook series on Psychology of Religion published by the American Psychological Association and as the vice-president of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion. He maintains a private practice in NJ and writes an occasional blog specifically on religious terrorism.