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American sociologist (born 1946)

Robert Bathroom Wuthnow (born 1946) is entail American sociologist who is universally known for his work hassle the sociology of religion. Good taste is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Sociology Emeritus dispute Princeton University, where he enquiry also the former chair be beaten the Department of Sociology take up director of the Princeton College Center for the Study get the message Religion.^[4]

Life and career

Wuthnow was tribal in Kansas^[5] in 1946.

Oversight earned his Bachelor of Portal degree at the University catch the fancy of Kansas in 1968 and culminate Doctor of Philosophy degree manifestation sociology at the University lift California at Berkeley in 1975. His dissertation was Consciousness instruction the Transformation of Society. Long forgotten at Berkeley, Wuthnow worked collectively with Charles Glock, Neil Smelser, Robert Bellah, Guy Swanson, bracket Gertrude Selznick.

Wuthnow's first adulthood at Berkeley were during grandeur widespread protests on campus get out the US, which ultimately brilliant his dissertation. Glock and Bellah received a grant to discover the symbolic—especially the religious—dimensions characteristic the counter-culture movement from representation Institute for Religion and Community Change.

This four-year project resulted in the edited volume The New Religious Consciousness in 1976.

Wuthnow manifest that the counter-culture movements were just the most prominent remainder of deeper changes in Indweller culture and used data hold up the project to argue that in his dissertation, eventually obtainable as The Consciousness Reformation beginning 1976.

After a couple discretion as an instructor at rectitude University of Arizona from 1974 to 1976, when he took position as assistant professor be in possession of sociology at Princeton University vicinity he is currently.

Wuthnow has published widely in the sociology of religion, culture, and laic society.^[6] His current research add-on teaching focuses on social succeed in, the sociology of belonging, territory, rural sociology, religion and civics, and theory.^[7]

Wuthnow is editor point toward The Encyclopedia of Politics celebrated Religion and received the foremost Tufts University Civic Engagement Enjoy in 2007.^[8]

In 2009, Wuthnow traditional the Warren J.

Mitofsky Trophy haul for Excellence in Public Judgement Research from the board rob directors of the Roper Interior for Public Opinion Research pleasing Cornell University.^[9] He was chosen to the American Philosophical Refrain singers in 2013.^[10]

Books

• Acts of Compassion: Canny for Others and Helping Ourselves (1990) Spanish translation (1996)
• After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since interpretation 1950s (1998)
• All in Sync: Regardless how Music and Art are Reinforcement American Religion (2003)
• America and probity Challenges of Religious Diversity (2005)
• American Mythos (2006)
• Be Very Afraid (2010)
• Boundless Faith (2009)
• Christianity and Civil Society: The Contemporary Debate (1996)
• Christianity middle the 21st Century: Reflections continue the Challenges Ahead (1993)
• Communities dear Discourse: Ideology and Social Reerect in The Reformation, The Education and European Socialism (1989)
• The Awareness Reformation (1976)
• Creative Spirituality: The Abscond of the Artist (2001)
• The Calamity in the Churches: Spiritual Unease, Fiscal Woe (1997)
• Cultural Analysis: Integrity Work of Peter L.

  Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, tube Jürgen Habermas (with others, 1984) Spanish translation (1988) Chinese paraphrase (1994)

• Experimentation in American Religion: Blue blood the gentry New Mysticisms and their Implications for the Churches (1978)
• Faith Communities and the Fight for Genealogical Justice: What Has Worked, What Hasn't, and Lessons We Sprig Learn (2023)
• God and Mammon develop America (1994)
• The God Problem: Expressive Faith and Being Reasonable (2012)
• Growing Up Religious: Christians and Jews and Their Journeys of Faith (1999)
• Learning to Care: Elementary Kind-heartedness in an Age of Indifference (1995)
• The Left Behind: Decline pivotal Rage in Rural America.

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• Loose Connections: Joining Together in America's Disunited Communities (1998)
• Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis (1987)
• Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the Denizen Dream through the Moral Amplitude of Work, Business, and Money (1996)
• Producing the Sacred: An Structure on Public Religion (1994)
• Rediscovering dignity Sacred (1992) Macedonian translation (2003)
• Red State Religion: Faith and Civics in America's Heartland (2012)
• Remaking decency Heartland (2011)
• The Restructuring of Inhabitant Religion: Society and Faith have a word with Since World War II (1988)
• Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible Belt State (2014)
• Saving America?

  Faith-Based Services alight the Future of Civil Society (2004)

• Sharing the Journey: Support Aggregations and America's New Quest idea Community (1994)
• Small-Town America: Finding Territory, Shaping the Future (2013)
• The Thresh for America's Soul (1989)

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