Publications
Books
The books listed here were written by Institute fellows and faculty and by scholars who received support from the Institute. While representing a variety of disciplines, the works all further our understanding of contemporary culture.
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Book Listing (by Author Last Name) | Sort by Title
Going Public: Christian Responsibility in a Divided America
Lawrence E. Adams | Brazos
Religion & the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
James Bennett | Princeton University Press
Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World
Peter L. Berger and Samuel P. Huntington, Editors | Oxford University Press - includes “In the Vanguard of Globalization: The World of American Globalizers” by Joshua Yates and James Davison Hunter
Inventing New Beginnings: On the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism
Asher Biemann | Stanford University Press
The Retrieval of Ethics
Talbot Brewer | Oxford University Press
Race: A Theological Account
J. Kameron Carter | Oxford University Press
Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism
David Ciepley | Harvard University Press
Evangelical Feminism: A History
Pamela D. H. Cochran | New York University Press
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Matthew Crawford | Penguin
Routledge International Handbook of Human Rights
Thomas Cushman | Routledge
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Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self Joseph E. Davis | University of Chicago Press |
Identity and Social Change
Joseph E. Davis, Editor | Transaction
Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements
Joseph E. Davis, Editor | State University of New York Press
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Democratic Faith Patrick Deneen | Princeton University Press |
Redefining Christian Britain: Post-1945 Perspectives
Jane Garnett et al., Editors | SCM - includes “Is English Education Secular?” by Ashley Rogers Berner
Evil After Postmodernism: Histories, Narratives, Ethics
Jennifer L. Geddes, Editor | Routledge
Salvaging the Fragments: The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust
Jennifer L. Geddes, John K. Roth, and Jules Simon, eds. | Palgrave Macmillan
Religious Identities in Britain, 1600
William Gibson and Robert G. Ingram, Editors | Ashgate
Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Citizenship
Eric Gregory | University of Chicago Press
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Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction Justin S. Holcomb, Editor | New York University Press |
Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University
Thomas Albert Howard | Oxford University Press
Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W.M.L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness
Thomas Albert Howard | Cambridge University Press
Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy in America
James Davison Hunter | Free Press
Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America
James Davison Hunter | Basic Books
The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil
James Davison Hunter | Basic Books
To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
James Davison Hunter | Oxford University Press
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Is There a Culture War?: A Dialogue on Values and American Public Life James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe | Brookings |
The Politics of Secularism in International Relations
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd | Princeton University Press
Collectivistic Religions: Religion, Choice, and Identity in Late Modernity
Slavica Jakelić | Ashgate
Crossing Boundaries: From Syria to Slovakia
Slavica Jakelić and J. Varsoke, Editors | IWM
The Future of the Study of Religion: Proceedings of Congress 2000
Slavica Jakelić and Lori Pearson, Editors | Brill Academic Publishers
Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism: Beyond Tolerance and Difference
Kristen Deede Johnson | Cambridge University Press
Church-State Issues in America Today: A Three Volume Set
Steven L. Jones and Ann Williams Duncan, eds. | Praeger
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Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700-1870 Charles A. Kromkowski | Cambridge University Press |
From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: New Theories of the Contemporary World (2nd edition)
Krishan Kumar | Blackwell
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The Making of English National Identity Krishan Kumar | Cambridge University Press |
1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals
Krishan Kumar | University of Minnesota Press
Public and Private in Thought and Practice
Krishan Kumar and Jeff Weintraub, eds. | University of Chicago Press
Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America
Paul Lichtermann | Princeton University Press
Secret Faith in the Public Square: An Argument for the Concealment of Christian Identity
Jonathan Malesic | Brazos
Evil and the Augustinian Tradition
Charles T. Mathewes | Cambridge University Press
A Theology of Public Life
Charles T. Mathewes | Cambridge University Press
The Republic of Grace: Augustinian Thoughts for Dark Times
Charles Mathewes | Eerdmans
Prophesies of Godlessness: Predications of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day
Charles Mathewes and Christopher McKnight Nichols, Eds. | Oxford University Press
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Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption Murray Milner, Jr. | Routledge |
Just Love: Transforming Civic Virtue
Ann Mongoven | Indiana University Press
Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts
Johann Neem | Harvard University Press
Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age
Christopher McKnight Nichols | Harvard University Press
Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement
James L. Nolan, Jr. | Princeton University Press
The American Culture Wars: Current Contests and Future Prospects
James L. Nolan, Jr., Editor | University Press of Virginia
The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics
Irene Oh | Georgetown University Press
The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility
Jeffrey K. Olick | Routledge
The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change 1510-2010
John Owen | Princeton University Press
Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order
John Owen and J. Judd Owen | Columbia University Press
Strategic Narrative: New Perspectives on the Power of Personal and Cultural Stories
Wendy Patterson, Editor | Lexington Books - includes “Social Movements and Strategic Narratives: Creating the Sexual Abuse Survivor Account” by Joseph E. Davis
A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America
Stephen Prothero, Editor | University of North Carolina Press - includes “Religious Pluralism and Civil Society” by James Davison Hunter and David Franz
My Life among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority, (Sacred Order/Social Order: Volume I)
Philip Rieff | University of Virginia Press - includes Introduction by James Davison Hunter
The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity (Sacred Order/Social Order: Volume II)
Philip Rieff | University of Virginia Press
The Crisis of the Officer Class: The Decline of the Tragic Sensibility (Sacred Order/Social Order: Volume III)
Philip Rieff | University of Virginia Press
Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (Persian translation)
Abdulaziz Sachedina | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Seeker Churches: Promoting Traditional Religion in a Nontraditional Way
Kimon Howland Sargeant | Rutgers University Press
Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to its Protestant Promise
Kevin Schultz | Oxford University Press
The Politics of Secularism in International Relations
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd | Princeton University Press
The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right
Jon Shields | Princeton University Press
Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship
Peter Slade | Oxford University Press
Politics in the Parish: The Political Influence of Catholic Priests
Greg Smith | Georgetown University Press
God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics
Monica Duffy Toft, Daniel Philpott, and Timothy Samuel Shah | Norton
The Ethos of a Late-Modern Citizen
Stephen K. White | Harvard University Press
Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands
W. Bradford Wilcox | University of Chicago Press
Justice: Rights and Wrongs
Nicholas Wolterstorff | Princeton University Press
Justice in Love
Nicholas Wolterstorff | Eerdmans
Inquiring about God: Selected Essays, Volume One
Nicholas Wolterstorff with Terence Cuneo, ed. | Cambridge University Press
Practices of Belief: Selected Essays, Volume Two
Nicholas Wolterstorff with Terence Cuneo, ed. | Cambridge University Press
Hearing the Call: Liturgy, Justice, Church, and World
Nicholas Wolterstorff, ed. Mark R. Gornik and Gregory Thompson | Eerdmans
Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together
Felicia Wu Song | Peter Lang
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The Catholic Church in State Politics: Negotiating Prophetic Demands and Political Realities David Yamane | Rowman & Littlefield |
Student Movements for Multiculturalism: Challenging the Curricular Color Line in Higher Education
David Yamane | Johns Hopkins University Press
Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present
Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter, eds. | Oxford University Press
The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland
Genevieve Zubrzycki | University of Chicago Press
Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels
Olivier Zunz | University of Virginia Press
The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics
Olivier Zunz and Alan S. Kahan, Editors | Blackwell
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