America's crisis of values : reality and perception / / Wayne Baker
| America's crisis of values : reality and perception / / Wayne Baker |
| Autore | Baker Wayne E |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.3/72/0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social values - United States
Social ethics - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-691-11794-2
1-4008-4962-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. A Question of Values -- CHAPTER TWO. America's Values in Global Context -- CHAPTER THREE. Culture War -- CHAPTER FOUR. Dynamics of Crisis -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Search for Meaning -- APPENDIX A. World Values Surveys: Methods, Sampling, and Measures -- APPENDIX B. Statistical Tables -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453086003321 |
Baker Wayne E
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| Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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America's crisis of values : reality and perception / / Wayne Baker
| America's crisis of values : reality and perception / / Wayne Baker |
| Autore | Baker Wayne E |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.3/72/0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social values - United States
Social ethics - United States |
| ISBN |
0-691-11794-2
1-4008-4962-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. A Question of Values -- CHAPTER TWO. America's Values in Global Context -- CHAPTER THREE. Culture War -- CHAPTER FOUR. Dynamics of Crisis -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Search for Meaning -- APPENDIX A. World Values Surveys: Methods, Sampling, and Measures -- APPENDIX B. Statistical Tables -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790631403321 |
Baker Wayne E
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| Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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America's crisis of values : reality and perception / / Wayne Baker
| America's crisis of values : reality and perception / / Wayne Baker |
| Autore | Baker Wayne E |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.3/72/0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social values - United States
Social ethics - United States |
| ISBN |
0-691-11794-2
1-4008-4962-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. A Question of Values -- CHAPTER TWO. America's Values in Global Context -- CHAPTER THREE. Culture War -- CHAPTER FOUR. Dynamics of Crisis -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Search for Meaning -- APPENDIX A. World Values Surveys: Methods, Sampling, and Measures -- APPENDIX B. Statistical Tables -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807838903321 |
Baker Wayne E
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| Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American mythos : why our best efforts to be a better nation fall short / / Robert Wuthnow
| American mythos : why our best efforts to be a better nation fall short / / Robert Wuthnow |
| Autore | Wuthnow Robert |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.3/72/0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social values - United States
Social ethics - United States Immigrants - United States |
| ISBN |
9786612157486
9781282157484 1282157485 9781400827022 1400827027 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Deep culture and democratic renewal -- Quandaries of individualism -- The justice of privilege -- Self-made men and women -- In America, all religions are true -- Ethnic ties that bind (loosely) -- Saving ourselves from materialism -- Venues for reflective democracy. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910345143703321 |
Wuthnow Robert
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The American Paradox : Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty / / David G. Myers
| The American Paradox : Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty / / David G. Myers |
| Autore | Myers David G. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2008] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (430 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306/.0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social ethics - United States
Communitarianism - United States |
| ISBN |
1-281-72233-2
9786611722333 0-300-13029-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times -- 2. The Sexual Swing -- 3. The Past and Future of Marriage -- 4. America's Children -- 5. Violence -- 6. Money and Misery -- 7. Individualism and Community -- 8. Media, Minds, and the Public Good -- 9. Educating for a Moral Compass -- 10. Faith and Society -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452346203321 |
Myers David G.
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| New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2008] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The American Paradox : Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty / / David G. Myers
| The American Paradox : Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty / / David G. Myers |
| Autore | Myers David G. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2008] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (430 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306/.0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social ethics - United States
Communitarianism - United States |
| ISBN |
1-281-72233-2
9786611722333 0-300-13029-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times -- 2. The Sexual Swing -- 3. The Past and Future of Marriage -- 4. America's Children -- 5. Violence -- 6. Money and Misery -- 7. Individualism and Community -- 8. Media, Minds, and the Public Good -- 9. Educating for a Moral Compass -- 10. Faith and Society -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777828403321 |
Myers David G.
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| New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2008] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The American paradox : spiritual hunger in an age of plenty / / David G. Myers ; foreword by Martin E. Marty
| The American paradox : spiritual hunger in an age of plenty / / David G. Myers ; foreword by Martin E. Marty |
| Autore | Myers David G |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven ; ; London, : Yale Nota Bene, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (430 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.0973 |
| Soggetto topico | Social ethics - United States |
| ISBN |
9786611722333
9781281722331 1281722332 9780300130294 0300130295 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times -- 2. The Sexual Swing -- 3. The Past and Future of Marriage -- 4. America's Children -- 5. Violence -- 6. Money and Misery -- 7. Individualism and Community -- 8. Media, Minds, and the Public Good -- 9. Educating for a Moral Compass -- 10. Faith and Society -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910963378803321 |
Myers David G
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| New Haven ; ; London, : Yale Nota Bene, 2001 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Economy, difference, empire [[electronic resource] ] : social ethics for social justice / / Gary Dorrien
| Economy, difference, empire [[electronic resource] ] : social ethics for social justice / / Gary Dorrien |
| Autore | Dorrien Gary J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (527 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.3/72097309045 |
| Collana | The Columbia series in religion and politics |
| Soggetto topico |
Social ethics - United States
Social justice - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-87240-0
9786612872402 0-231-52629-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: The Social Gospel and Niebuhrian Realism -- 1. Society as the Subject of Redemption: Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the Social Gospel -- 2. Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and the Crises of War and Capitalism -- 3. The Niebuhrian Legacy: Christian Realism as Theology, Social Ethics, and Public Intellectualism -- 4. Ironic Complexity: Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, Modernity, and Racial Justice -- PART II: Economic Democracy in Question -- 5. Norman Thomas and the Dilemma of American Socialism -- 6. Michael Harrington and the "Left Wing of the Possible" -- 7. Christian Socialism as Tradition and Problem -- 8. Breaking the Oligarchy: Globalization, Turbo-Capitalism, Economic Crash, Economic Democracy -- 9. Rethinking and Renewing Economic Democracy -- PART III: Neoconservatism and American Empire -- 10. The Neoconservative Phenomenon: American Power and the War of Ideology -- 11. Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the Iraq War -- 12. Militaristic Illusions: The Iraq Debacle and the Crisis of American Empire -- 13. Empire in Denial: American Exceptionalism and the Community of Nations -- PART IV: Social Ethics and the Politics of Difference -- 14. The Feminist Difference: Rosemary R. Ruether and Eco-Socialist Christianity -- 15 Pragmatic Postmodern Prophecy: Cornel West as Social Critic and Public Intellectual -- 16. As Purple to Lavender: Katie Cannon and Womanist Ethics -- 17. Religious Pluralism as a Justice Issue: Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, and Ecumenism -- 18. The Obama Phenomenon and Presidency -- 19. Social Ethics in the Making: History, Method, and White Supremacism -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458469603321 |
Dorrien Gary J
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| New York, : Columbia University Press, 2010 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Economy, difference, empire [[electronic resource] ] : social ethics for social justice / / Gary Dorrien
| Economy, difference, empire [[electronic resource] ] : social ethics for social justice / / Gary Dorrien |
| Autore | Dorrien Gary J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (527 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.3/72097309045 |
| Collana | The Columbia series in religion and politics |
| Soggetto topico |
Social ethics - United States
Social justice - United States |
| ISBN |
1-282-87240-0
9786612872402 0-231-52629-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: The Social Gospel and Niebuhrian Realism -- 1. Society as the Subject of Redemption: Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the Social Gospel -- 2. Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and the Crises of War and Capitalism -- 3. The Niebuhrian Legacy: Christian Realism as Theology, Social Ethics, and Public Intellectualism -- 4. Ironic Complexity: Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, Modernity, and Racial Justice -- PART II: Economic Democracy in Question -- 5. Norman Thomas and the Dilemma of American Socialism -- 6. Michael Harrington and the "Left Wing of the Possible" -- 7. Christian Socialism as Tradition and Problem -- 8. Breaking the Oligarchy: Globalization, Turbo-Capitalism, Economic Crash, Economic Democracy -- 9. Rethinking and Renewing Economic Democracy -- PART III: Neoconservatism and American Empire -- 10. The Neoconservative Phenomenon: American Power and the War of Ideology -- 11. Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the Iraq War -- 12. Militaristic Illusions: The Iraq Debacle and the Crisis of American Empire -- 13. Empire in Denial: American Exceptionalism and the Community of Nations -- PART IV: Social Ethics and the Politics of Difference -- 14. The Feminist Difference: Rosemary R. Ruether and Eco-Socialist Christianity -- 15 Pragmatic Postmodern Prophecy: Cornel West as Social Critic and Public Intellectual -- 16. As Purple to Lavender: Katie Cannon and Womanist Ethics -- 17. Religious Pluralism as a Justice Issue: Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, and Ecumenism -- 18. The Obama Phenomenon and Presidency -- 19. Social Ethics in the Making: History, Method, and White Supremacism -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791686603321 |
Dorrien Gary J
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| New York, : Columbia University Press, 2010 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ethics and mores of race [[electronic resource] ] : equality after the history of philosophy / / Naomi Zack
| The ethics and mores of race [[electronic resource] ] : equality after the history of philosophy / / Naomi Zack |
| Autore | Zack Naomi <1944-> |
| Edizione | [First paperback edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
| Disciplina | 177/.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Racism - Moral and ethical aspects - United States
Race discrimination - United States Social ethics - United States Racism Race discrimination Social ethics Manners and customs |
| ISBN |
1-4422-4912-9
1-283-16348-9 9786613163486 1-4422-1127-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : ethics, mores, and race -- Plato's and Aristotle's invention of ethics -- Cosmopolitan contributions to an ethics of race -- Natural law and inequality -- Moral law and slavery -- Christian metaphysics and inequality -- Social contract theory and the sovereign nation state -- Deontology, utilitarianism, and rights -- Conclusion : egalitarian humanism and requirements for an ethics of race. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781318903321 |
Zack Naomi <1944->
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| Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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