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ROBERT WUTHNOW Department of Sociology Wallace Hall Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (609) 258-4742 or 258-4531 Education: University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, B.S., 1968, Summa Cum Laude University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, Ph.D., 1975 Employment: Andlinger Professor of Sociology Director, Center for the Study of Religion Princeton University Publications: Books The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2018), 196 pp. American Misfits and the Making of Middle Class Respectability (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017), 362 pp. Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 256 pp. In the Blood: Understanding America’s Farm Families (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015), 240 pp. Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-belt State (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014), 654 pp. Paperback edition, 2016. Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013), 504 pp. Paperback edition, 2015. The God Problem: Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012), 332 pp. Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America’s Heartland (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012), 484 pp. Paperback edition, 2014. Remaking the Heartland: Middle America Since the 1950s (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011), 376 pp. Paperback edition, 2013. Be Very Afraid: The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear 2 Annihilation, and Other Threats (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 304 pp. Paperback edition, 2012. Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009), 345 pp. Paperback edition, 2010. After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), 298 pp. Paperback edition, 2010. American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006), 354 pp. Paperback edition, 2008. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005), 367 pp. Paperback edition, 2007. Saving America? Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004), 352 pp. Paperback edition, 2006. All in Sync: How Music and Art Are Revitalizing American Religion (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003), 284 pp. Paperback edition, 2006. Creative Spirituality: The Way of the Artist (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001), 315 pp. Paperback edition, 2003. Growing Up Religious: Christians and Jews and Their Journeys of Faith (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999), 270 pp. Paperback edition, 2001. Loose Connections: Joining Together in America's Fragmented Communities (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998), 268 pp. Paperback edition, 2002. After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998), 265 pp. Selected as one of “Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 1998.” Paperback edition, 2000. The Crisis in the Churches: Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 291 pp. Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 426 pp. Paperback edition, 1998. Christianity and Civil Society: The Contemporary Debate (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1996), 112 pp. The 1996 Rockwell Lectures. Learning to Care: Elementary Kindness in an Age of Indifference (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 287 pp. God and Mammon in America (New York: Free Press, 1994), 364 pp. Paperback edition, 1996. Producing the Sacred: An Essay on Public Religion (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 200 pp. Cloth and paper. 3 Sharing the Journey: Support Groups and America's New Quest for Community (New York: Free Press, 1994), 464 pp. A main selection of the Behavioral Science Book Club. Paperback edition, 1996. Christianity in the 21st Century: Reflections on the Challenges Ahead (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). 255 pp. Paperback edition, 1995. Rediscovering the Sacred: Perspectives on Religion in Contemporary Society (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1992). 180 pp. Cloth and paper. Macedonian translation, 2003. Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991). 330 pp. Religious Book Club Main Selection, 1991. Second printing, 1992. Paperback edition, 1993. Spanish translation (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1996). Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989). 732 pp. Paperback edition, 1993. Spanish translation (Santiago, Chile: Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez, 2010). The Struggle for America's Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals, and Secularism (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1989). 210 pp. Cloth and paper. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988). 374 pp. Religious Book Club Main Selection, 1989. Second printing, 1989. Paperback edition, 1990. Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987). 435 pp. Paperback edition, 1989. Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas, by Robert Wuthnow, James Davison Hunter, Albert Bergesen, and Edith Kurzweil (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul), 1984). 273 pp. Spanish translation (Barcelona: Ediciones Paidos Iberica, 1988). Paperback edition, 1985. Reprinted, 1985, 1987, 1991, and 1993. Chinese translation (Taiwan: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., 1994). Arabic translation, 2009. Reprint edition, 2010. Experimentation in American Religion (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978). 221 pp. The Consciousness Reformation (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976). 309 pp. Adolescent Prejudice, by Charles Y. Glock, Robert Wuthnow, J.A. Piliavin, and Metta Spencer (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), 229 pp. Cloth and paper. Edited Books Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights, edited by Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 314 pp. The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Second Edition, 2 vols (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 2006), 1120 pp. 4 The Quiet Hand of God: Faith-Based Activism and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism, ed. by Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002), 430 pp. The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, 2 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998), 875 pp. Rethinking Materialism: Perspectives on the Spiritual Dimension of Economic Life (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995). 276 pp. "I Come Away Stronger": How Small Groups Are Shaping American Religion (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1994). 400 pp. Vocabularies of Public Life: Empirical Essays in Symbolic Structure (London: Routledge, 1992). 270 pp. Between States and Markets: The Voluntary Sector in Comparative Perspective (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991). 310 pp. Faith and Philanthropy in America: Exploring the Role of Religion in America's Voluntary Sector, edited by Robert Wuthnow and Virginia A. Hodgkinson (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990). 335 pp. The New Christian Right: Mobilization and Legitimation, edited by Robert C. Liebman and Robert Wuthnow (New York: Aldine, 1983). 256 pp. The Religious Dimension: New Directions in Quantitative Research (New York: Academic Press, 1979). 379 pp. Articles “How Maligning Others Made the Middle Class,” History News Network (October 28, 2017), 1-10. “Rural Depopulation,” in The Routledge History of Rural America, ed. By Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (New York: Routledge, 2016), 260-73. “In Polls We Trust.” First Things 255 (2015), 39-44. “Questioning the Narrative of Global Christianity,” Anthology 3 (October 2015), 17-23. “America’s Heartland: A Case for Social Resilience?” Social Thought and Research 33 (2015), 21-44. “General Concepts and Domain-Specific Concepts: An Argument about the Study of Religion in Sociology.” Sociology of Religion 75 (2014), 594-606. “Sideshows and Detours: A Narrative Reconstruction about Studying Religion,” in Studying Religion and Society: Sociological Self-Portraits, ed. By Titus Hjelm and Phil Zuckerman (London: Routledge, 2013), 286-97. “Both Reasonable and Religious?” Bearings 3 (Spring 2013), 4-8. “Faith and Reason,” Montréal Review (October 2012), 1-4. 5 “Taking Talk Seriously: Religious Discourse as Social Practice,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50 (2011), 1-21. “Introduction,” by Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow, in Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights, ed. by Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 1-21. “Intimate Knowledge as a Concept for Further Research in Studies of Religion,” ARDA Guiding Papers Series (March 2011), 46 pp. Online at www.thearda.com/rrh/papers/guidingpapers/wuthnow.asp.