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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

    $23.09 CAD

  • Religion's Power

    What Makes It Work

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    What makes religion so powerful? Why does it attract so many followers? Raise so much money? Influence how people vote? The usual answer is that religion is powerful because it offers divine hope. But there is more to it than that. Why does a worship service seem powerful? Why is it powerful to hear someone testify about their faith? Who sets the rules for who can be a member and who cannot? What ... Read more

    $32.39 CAD

  • 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

    $72.59 CAD

  • The Left Behind

    Decline and Rage in Small-Town America

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural AmericansWhat is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America’s small towns, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • 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

    $32.39 CAD

  • 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

    $29.59 CAD

  • Rough Country

    How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    **How the history of Texas illuminates America's post–**Civil War pastTracing 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 illuminates American history since the Civil War in new ways, demonstrating that Texas's story is also America’s. In particular, Robert ... Read more

    Was $58.29 CAD Now $40.69 CAD

  • 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

    Was $54.99 CAD Now $36.29 CAD

  • Remaking the Heartland

    Middle America since the 1950s

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    The social transformation of the American Midwest in the postwar eraFor many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown. In Remaking the Heartland, Robert Wuthnow sets out to rectify this. He shows how the region has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-century and proven itself surprisingly resilient in the face of such hardships as the Great Depression and the movement ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • 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

    $38.49 CAD

  • 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

    $30.79 CAD

  • 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

    $27.99 CAD