Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: fiscal, woe, malaise, spiritual, churches, crisis
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1997-03-06
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 019511020X
ISBN-13: 9780195110203

At a time when already overworked clergy are being called upon by budget cutting politicians to do more for the poor, the sick, and the elderly, American churches are suffering persistent financial shortfalls. In fact, contrary to popular media images of millionaire televangelists, America’s churches are cutting back programs and staff, clergy salaries are stagnating, and many parishes are having trouble raising enough money to keep the church lit and heated on Sunday. Why are America’s churches in financial distress? Robert Wuthnow, a leading commentator on religious life in Ameri

Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: cultural, analysis, explorations, order, moral, meaning
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 1989-04-27
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520066219
ISBN-13: 9780520066212

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. Innovative, controversial, challenging, it will compel scholars to rethink many of the assumptions on which the study of ideology, ritual, religion, science, and culture have been based.

Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Free Pre
Keywords: america, mammon, god
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 068486391X
ISBN-13: 9780684863917

Drawing on a new survey of more than two thousand working Americans, the author of Christianity in the 21st Century explores the relationship between religious faith and attitudes toward work and money to examine Americans’ ambivalence toward materialism and consumerism.

Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: implications, churches, mysticisms, new, american, religion, experimentation
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1978-06-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520034465
ISBN-13: 9780520034464

Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: 1950s, america, spirituality, heaven
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 1998
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520222288
ISBN-13: 9780520222281

The evolution of American spirituality over the past fifty years is the subject of Robert Wuthnow’s engrossing new book. Wuthnow uses in-depth interviews and a broad range of resource materials to show how Americans, from teenagers to senior citizens, define their spiritual journeys. His findings are a telling reflection of the changes in beliefs and lifestyles that have occurred throughout the United States in recent decades. Wuthnow reconstructs the social and cultural reasons for an emphasis on a spirituality of dwelling (houses of worship, denominations, neighborhoods)

Author: Mr. Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Keywords: sacred, rediscovering
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1992-05-19
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0802806333
ISBN-13: 9780802806338

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 late in the social sciences and shows how these approaches can help explain the shifting location of the sacred.

Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: religion, american, restructuring
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0691020574
ISBN-13: 9780691020570

"[The Restructuring of American Religion] is the most expansive and one of the most profound inquiries into the condition of American religious structure since World War II. . . . To carry on debates about this structure now without reference to Wuthnow would be to attempt to track a landscape of near-chaos without using the best available road map and set of markers. It is likely that we will be citing "Wuthnow’ as we have been referring eponymically to major interpretations of "Herberg’ or "Berger’ or "Bellah.’" --Martin Marty, Religious Studies Review "This book is t