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  • The Religious Left

    What It Does and How It Can Do Better

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    An incisive examination of progressive faith-based activism and its impact on American public lifeWhile the Religious Right often dominates headlines, the Religious Left has been a persistent and influential force in shaping public policy across a wide spectrum of issues—from immigration and climate change to gun reform, marriage equality, and criminal justice. Despite its lower visibility, its ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Nurturing Happiness

    How Religion Shapes Emotional Practice

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    How does religious faith contribute to happiness? The usual answer is that religious belief relieves the anxieties of ordinary life and that religious belonging provides emotional support. But a growing body of literature suggests that happiness is more complicated than that. Happiness is not only a feeling. It is a practice that we engage in actively, that we attempt to manage, and that is in ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Be Very Afraid

    The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "the country's best social scientists" by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "tremendously valuable." The New York Times calls him "temperate, balanced, compassionate," adding, "one can't but admire Mr. Wuthnow's views." A leading authority on religion, he now addresses one of the most profound subjects: the end of the world. In Be Very ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The God Problem

    Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    The United States is one of the most highly educated societies on earth, and also one of the most religious. In The God Problem, Robert Wuthnow examines how middle class Americans juggle the seemingly paradoxical relationship between faith and reason.Based on exceptionally rich and candid interviews with approximately two hundred people from various faiths, this book dispels the most common ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • In the Blood

    Understanding America's Farm Families

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    A vivid and moving portrait of America's farm familiesFarming is essential to the American economy and our daily lives, yet few of us have much contact with farmers except through the food we eat. Who are America's farmers? Why is farming important to them? How are they coping with dramatic changes to their way of life? In the Blood paints a vivid and moving portrait of America’s farm families, ... Read more

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  • Inventing American Religion

    Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    Today, a billion-dollar-a-year polling industry floods the media with information. Pollsters tell us not only which political candidates will win, but how we are practicing our faith. How many Americans went to church last week? Have they been born again? Is Jesus as popular as Harry Potter? Polls tell us that 40 percent of Americans attend religious services each week. They show that African ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • American Mythos

    Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic. In this new book, renowned sociologist Robert Wuthnow examines these most American of stories--narratives about individualism, immigration, success, religion, and ethnicity--through the eyes of recent immigrants. In doing so, he ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Poor Richard's Principle

    Recovering the American Dream through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    The American Dream is in serious danger, according to Robert Wuthnow--not because of economic conditions, but because its moral underpinnings have been forgotten. In the past this vision was not simply a formula for success, but a moral perspective that framed our thinking about work and money in terms of broader commitments to family, community, and humanitarian values. Nowadays, we are working ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • What Happens When We Practice Religion?

    Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    An exploration of the interdisciplinary methods used to understand religious practiceReligion is commonly viewed as something that people practice, whether in the presence of others or alone. But what do we mean exactly by "practice"? What approaches help to answer this question? What Happens When We Practice Religion? delves into the central concepts, arguments, and tools used to understand ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Saving America?

    Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This action marked a key step toward institutionalizing an idea that emerged in the mid-1990s under the Clinton administration--the transfer of some social programs from government control to religious organizations. However, despite an increasingly ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice

    What Has Worked, What Hasn't, and Lessons We Can Learn

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    The communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty yearsHave progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for racial justice? In Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice, Robert Wuthnow shows that, contrary to activists’ accusations of complacency, Black and White faith leaders have ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Restructuring of American Religion

    Society and Faith since World War II

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    Series series Studies in Church and State
    A major survey of the dramatic changes to American religious life in the decades after World War IIIn this book, Robert Wuthnow gathers a vast amount of information into a narrative that answers numerous questions about the clash of religion and politics in the United States during the postwar era. In particular, he deciphers the growing polarization of religious liberals and religious ... Read more

    $39.59 USD