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First published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and decodes a number of the symbols which now…
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This collection of essays by ten of the nation’s prominent social scientists and theologians offers serious commentary on our culture’s obsession with material goods and examines the uneasy relation of…
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This book examines ways in which politics and religion have combined to affect social attitudes and influence policy over the last two centuries.
Robert Wuthnow
Examines the symbolic structure of such important contemporary manifestations of culture as religious discourse, scientific texts, popular music, symbols, art, dance, law and public policy
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Claiming that the realm of the sacred in modern societies is characterized more by rediscovery than by revival, Wuthnow examines the main theoretical approaches toward religion that have emerged of…
These portraits are powerful and highly personal because they tell the stories. both collective and personal, of each group, revealing agreement and dissension, closeness and alienation, growth and stagnation. The…
Looks at how we have adapted to diversity and the ways rank-and-file Americans, clergy, and other community leaders are responding. This book contends that responses to religious diversity are fundamentally…
Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion. But the lifestyles and beliefs of the generation that has followed -…
Drawing on a national survey of 2,000 Americans, Robert Wuthnow shows that organized religion in America actually encourages rampant materialism–and that people feel very troubled and ambivalent about this. Wuthnow…
The Description for this book, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II, will be forthcoming.
States that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else - and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no…
Drawing on accounts from scores of people in all walks of life and from a national survey, this book shows that work and money cannot be understood in terms of…
More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live…
What is public religion? How does it manifest the sacred? Wuthnow states that cultural expressions, religious or otherwise, do not simply happen but are produced. He considers the major organizational…
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. In this book Robert Wuthnow examines the two major factions in American religion – conservatives and liberals –…
Questions about civil society have been reopened in recent years with increasing urgency. How can we preserve and protect democracy? Is it possible to bring a moral dimension back into…
A look at how support groups have affected American society argues that, although support groups provide a warmth and security that holds society together, they can lead to an unhealthy…
Addresses questions such as: Are congregations effective vehicles for providing broad-based social programs, or are they best at supporting their own members? How many local congregations have formal programs to…
Details how Americans have traditionally relied on narratives to address what it means to be strong, morally responsible individuals and to explain why some people are more successful than others…
No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand…
For many Americans, the Midwest is a vas0t unknown. This title sets out to rectify this. It shows how the region has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-century…
Tracing the intersection of religion, race, and power in Texas from Reconstruction through the rise of the Religious Right and the failed presidential bid of Governor Rick Perry, Rough Country…
Farming 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…
How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don’t make the grade How did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was…
How the actions and advocacy of diverse religious communities in the United States have supported democracy’s development during the past century
Does religion benefit democracy? Robert Wuthnow says yes. In…
The communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty years
Have progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for…
An exploration of the interdisciplinary methods used to understand religious practice Religion is commonly viewed as something that people practice, whether in the presence of others or alone. But what…
What affect does a religious upbringing have on adult life? Robert Wuthnow interviewed more than 200 people to find out how their childhood memories of an adult world imbued with…
Shows how music and art are revitalizing churches and religious life across the nation in this consideration of the relationship between religion and the arts. The author argues that contemporary…
How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural Americans What is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald…
Inventing American Religion traces the history of polling, examining its powerful rise in supplying information about the nation’s faith, chronicling its current weaknesses, and tackling the difficult questions of how…
Wuthnow shows that in America there has been a significant change in group affiliations away from traditional civic organizations toward affiliations that respond to individual needs and collective concerns. He…
Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest challenges to the status quo in the development of modern society-the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment…
Meaning and Moral Order goes beyond classical, neoclassical, and poststructural theories of culture in its attempt to move away from problems of meaning to a more objective concept of culture…
A consideration of the evolution of American spirituality over the past fifty years.
Exploring the link between the creative and the sacred, the author of this text claims that artists have become the spiritual vanguard of our time. Drawing on interviews with painters…
Looking at American Christianity in relation to globalization, this book shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries…
Examines how middle class Americans juggle the seemingly paradoxical relationship between faith and reason. Based on interviews with two hundred people from various faiths, this book dispels the common explanations…
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…