Robert Wuthnow, Author . Univ. of California $19.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-520-23769-8
American religion should have suffered a significant decline in the last third of the 20th century, according to prolific Princeton sociologist Wuthnow (Loose Connections: Joining Together in America's Fragmented Communities; Acts of Compassion:
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Robert Wuthnow, Author . Princeton Univ. $29.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-691-11926-7
Princeton sociologist Wuthnow, known for his rigorous and sympathetic studies of American mainstream religion (All in Sync
; Sharing the Journey
; etc.), here examines the role of congregations and "faith-based organizations" in providing...
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Robert Wuthnow, Author . Oxford Univ. $29.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-19-973087-2
Wuthnow (American Mythos
) surveys the cultural response to the “prospect of devastation, even annihilation” in this provocative if uneven study. Relying on government reports, scientific studies, poll results, novels and films, and...
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Robert Wuthnow, Author Princeton University Press $97.5 (445p) ISBN 978-0-691-02892-7
Readers of this heavy tome could be forgiven for echoing H.L. Mencken's classic riposte: ""Down With Uplift."" Wuthnow has paraded an extensive series of case histories chronicling all the strains of our times--family breakdown, disaffected children,
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Robert Wuthnow, Author Princeton University Press $46.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-691-12765-1
In a volume sure to change how pundits and clergy think about religion in the contemporary U.S., prolific Princeton sociologist Wuthnow (American Mythos) assembles and analyzes a vast amount of data about the religious lives of Americans aged 21 to...
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Robert Wuthnow, Author Oxford University Press, USA $30 (264p) ISBN 978-0-19-507957-9
Wuthnow, a social science professor and director of the Center for the Study of American Religion at Princeton University, suggests that the eve of the millennium is an ideal moment to consciously address the role of Christianity in the nation's...
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Robert Wuthnow, Author Beacon Press (MA) $27.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8070-2806-3
Princeton professor Wuthnow's latest study of American religion is an account of interviews with 200 respondents conducted over a three-year period. Subjects were chosen by a system of quotas rather than randomly because, Wuthnow notes, he ""wanted...
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Robert Wuthnow, Author University of California Press $45 (309p) ISBN 978-0-520-22500-8
Wuthnow (After Heaven; The Restructuring of American Religion; etc.) and his associates interviewed 100 successful artists who are interested in spirituality, offering many of their stories in this topically organized book. Ceramicists, painters,...
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Robert Wuthnow. Princeton Univ, $39.50 (662p) ISBN 978-0-691-15989-8
Wuthnow, the director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, argues that Texas, dubbed “rough country” by its first European explorers, has become conservative state most influential in shaping the nation’s culture, values,
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Robert Wuthnow. Oxford, $29.95 (264) ISBN 978-0-19-025890-0
“The polling industry speaks largely through a megaphone so loudly that criticisms can hardly be heard,” writes acclaimed sociologist Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University. In his newest book, Wuthnow worries about the way polls and Gallup surveys...
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Robert Wuthnow. Princeton Univ, $25 (216p) ISBN 978-0-691-17766-3
Sociologist Wuthnow (Inventing American Religion) condenses decades of research on rural America into a slim and accessible volume highlighting three pseudonymous rural communities from across America country whose members are tightly knit together...
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