Robert Wuthnow: 18 books
Be Very Afraid
The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
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...
After the Baby Boomers
How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
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...
Remaking the Heartland
Middle America since the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
For 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...
by Robert Wuthnow
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
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...
The God Problem
Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
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...
Red State Religion
Faith and Politics in America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
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 red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly...
The Left Behind
Decline and Rage in Small-Town America
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
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 Trump? And is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on...
In the Blood
Understanding America's Farm Families
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
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? 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...
Small-Town America
Finding Community, Shaping the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
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 closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust...
Inventing American Religion
Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
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...
by Robert Wuthnow
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
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 it just by earning a decent living? Or did it require something more? And if it did, what can we learn that may...
Rough Country
How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
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 illuminates American history since the Civil War in new ways, demonstrating that Texas's story is also America’s....
American Mythos
Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
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,...
The Religion and Science Debate
Why Does It Continue?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Eighty-one years after America witnessed the Scopes trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools, the debate between science and religion continues. In this book scholars from a variety of disciplines—sociology, history, science, and theology—provide new insights into the contemporary...
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