Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life

Books from Boisi Center Staff and Alumni

boisi center for religion and american public life

Books published by Boisi Center staff and fellows since the Boisi Center’s founding in 2000:

Gambling Alan Wolfe and Erik Owens, eds. Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009.
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The Future of Liberalism Alan Wolfe. The Future of Liberalism, Knopf, 2009.
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Does Democracy Still Work? Alan Wolfe. Does American Democracy Still Work?, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Is there a Culture War? Alan Wolfe. Is there a Culture War? A Dialogue on Values and American Public Life, co-authored with James Davidson Hunter. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2006.
Return to Greatness Alan Wolfe. Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What it Needs to Do to Recover It. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005.
The Transformation of American Religion Alan Wolfe. The Transformation of American Religion: How We actually Practice our Faith. New York: The Free Press, 2003. Paperback: Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Religion and the Death Penalty Erik Owens. Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning. (Edited, with John Carlson and Eric Elshtain.) Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2004.
The Sacred and the Sovereign Erik Owens. The Sacred and the Sovereign: Religion and International Politics. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003.
An Intellectual in the Public Alan Wolfe. An Intellectual in Public. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.
School of Choice Alan Wolfe, ed. School Choice: The Moral Debate. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Moral Freedom Alan Wolfe. Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.