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  • Bad Pastors

    Clergy Misconduct in Modern America

    Child-molesting priests, embezzled church treasures, philandering ministers and rabbis, even church-endorsed pyramid schemes that defraud gullible parishioners of millions of dollars: for the past decade, clergy misconduct has seemed continually to be in the news.Is there something about religious organizations that fosters such misbehavior? Bad Pastors presents a range of new perspectives and ... Read more

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  • Rogue Clerics

    The Social Problem of Clergy Deviance

    by Anson Shupe ...
    During the past several years the mass media in the United States has been awash with reports of priestly pedophilia, ecclesiastical cover-up, and clerical intimidation or financial settlements intended to silence victims. Based on journalistic accounts, or scholarly research, it might be assumed that this is a recent phenomenon. Journalist reports began only within the past few years. Similarly, ... Read more

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  • Violence, Inequality, and Human Freedom

    Violence, Inequality, and Human Freedom is a sociological introduction to the study of violence that looks at violence on three different levels—structural, institutional, and interpersonal. The third edition is updated throughout, including a new chapter on educational violence and revised sections on economic and international violence. ... Read more

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    How We Became a Nation of Heretics

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    A powerful, thought-provoking and always lively examination of how American Christianity has badly lost its way—with most of what goes by the name of Christianity today being one or another type of heresy—by the youngest writer ever appointed as editorial columnist for The New York Times.In a world populated by “pray and grow rich” gospels and Christian cults of self-esteem, Ross Douthat argues ... Read more

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  • The Benedict Option

    A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

    by Rod Dreher ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Already the most discussed and most important religious book of the decade." —David BrooksIn this controversial bestseller, Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life.**From the inside, American churches have been hollowed out by the departure of young people and by an insipid pseudo ... Read more

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  • The Knowledge Deficit

    Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children

    by E. D. Hirsch ...
    The Knowledge Deficit illuminates the real issue in education today -- without an effective curriculum, American students are losing the global education race. In this persuasive book, the esteemed education critic, activist, and best-selling author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., shows that although schools are teaching the mechanics of reading, they fail to convey the knowledge needed for the more complex and ... Read more

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  • American Grace

    How Religion Divides and Unites Us

    American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America.Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation’s religious landscape has been reshaped.America has experienced three seismic shocks, say Robert Putnam and David Campbell. In the 1960s, religious observance plummeted. Then in ... Read more

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  • Interpretive Research Design

    Concepts and Processes

    Series series Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods
    Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training they receive. This book is an authoritative examination of the concepts and processes underlying the ... Read more

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  • A Heart on Fire

    Catholic Witness and the Next America

    "A genuinely Catholic life should feed the soul as well as the mind; should offer a vision of men and women made whole by the love of God, the knowledge of creation, and the reality of things unseen; should enable us to see the beauty of the world in the light of eternity; and should help us recapture the nobility of the human story and the dignity of the human person. This is the kind of witness ... Read more

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  • Abductive Analysis

    Theorizing Qualitative Research

    "A major contribution to both the pragmatist renaissance and the transnational turn toward theorizing in qualitative research." —Adele E. Clarke, author of Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern TurnIn Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, ... Read more

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  • The Marriage-Go-Round

    The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

    In a landmark book that's "intriguing [and] provocative" and presents "an original thesis [to explain] this peculiar paradox—we idealize marriage and yet we’re so bad at it” (The New York Times).Andrew J. Cherlin's three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn’t in other developed countries. Americans marry and divorce ... Read more

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