James W. Jones is the award-winning author of several books in the fields of religion and science and religion and psychology: His most recent book is Terror and Transformation: the Ambiguity of Religion in Psychoanalytic Perspective.  This is the first book to address the nature of religion and its capacity to sponsor both terrorism and transformation.

Jones holds doctorates in both Clinical Psychology (Rutgers University) and Religious Studies (Brown University) and has been awarded the William Bier Award by the Division of Psychology of religion by the American Psychological Association for his contributions to the field.

The Limpitlaw Lecture Series, funded by the generosity of John Limpitlaw (Trinity 1957) and his wife Susan, consists of a repeated cycle over a four-year period of talks by prominent scholars linking religion with the arts, science or medicine, the study of history, and business.

Dr. Jones will also read from his latest book at Gallows Hill Bookstore, on the Trinity Campus, on the same day at 4:00 p.m.