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  • American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability
    Robert Wuthnow
    How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don’t make the gradeHow did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning a decent living? Or did it require something more? And if it did, what can we learn that may still apply?The quest for middle-class respectability in nineteenth-century America is u...
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    37,28 €

  • In the Blood
    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...
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    37,76 €

  • What Happens When We Practice Religion?
    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...
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    43,27 €

  • Small-Town America
    Robert Wuthnow
    A revealing examination of small-town lifeMore 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 closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust health care. But they have opted to l...
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    40,81 €

  • Red State Religion
    Robert Wuthnow
    What Kansas really tells us about red state AmericaNo 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 red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutiona...
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    42,26 €

  • Be Very Afraid
    Robert Wuthnow
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    52,16 €

  • Cultural Analysis
    Albert J. Bergesen / James Davison Hunter / Robert Wuthnow
    First published in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas.This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the analysis of culture and shows the converging assumptions that the authors believe are l...
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    102,82 €

  • After the Baby Boomers
    Robert Wuthnow
    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--and the influence these younger Americans in their twenties and thirties are having on the face of religion--are not so well understood. It is this next wave of post-boomers that Robert Wuthnow examines ...
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    49,93 €

  • America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity
    Robert Wuthnow
    Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years. Yet many Americans continue to regard the United States as a Christian society. How are we adapting to the new diversity? Do we casually announce that we 'respect' the faiths of non-Christians without understanding much about those fa...
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    67,53 €

  • Saving America?
    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 ...
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    56,61 €

  • Christianity in the Twenty-First Century
    Robert Wuthnow
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    59,07 €

  • Poor Richard’s Principle
    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. Nowada...
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    78,19 €

  • Sharing the Journey
    Robert Wuthnow
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    25,71 €

  • Rethinking Materialism
    Robert Wuthnow
    This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. 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 materialism to religion. The contributors assess the ways in which materialism has been understood by rec...
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    33,45 €

  • God and Mammon in America
    Robert Wuthnow
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    21,50 €

  • I Come Away Stronger
    Robert Wuthnow
    John M. Mulder —Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary "This fascinating collection of diverse case studies and narratives reveals the flesh and blood, the pain and joy, of small groups and their adherents." ...
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    44,46 €

  • Acts of Compassion
    Robert Wuthnow
    Robert Wuthnow finds 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 less involved in caring for others. ...
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    85,80 €

  • Rediscovering the Sacred
    Robert Wuthnow
    This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. Claiming that modern interest in the sacred remains constant over time but that the sacred continually manifests itself in changing forms, Wuthnow examines the main theoretical approaches toward religion that have emerged of late in the social sciences, and he shows how these approaches have moved away from the id...
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    26,94 €

  • The Presbyterian Predicament
    Robert Wuthnow
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    23,85 €

  • The Restructuring of American Religion
    Robert Wuthnow
    The description for this book, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II, will be forthcoming. ...
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    62,09 €

  • The Struggle for America’s Soul
    Robert Wuthnow
    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 — and analyzes the secular forces shaping both sides. Wuthnow's clear, perceptive sociological study is prescriptive as well as descriptive, stressing the need to maintain a healthy, honest dialogue in...
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    29,18 €