Political Culture
Democracy & Solidarity
On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis
Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions—most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality that, tragically, has seldom been realized in practice…
Culture Wars
The Struggle to Define America
In 1991, James Davison Hunter became the first to describe what now seems obvious to everyone: that America is deeply divided by a conflict of two moral visions, two tendencies he called “progressivist” and “traditionalist”…
Before the Shooting Begins
Searching for Democracy in America’s Culture Wars
At the very center of cultural conflict today are a host of public issues—abortion, sexual harassment, homosexuality—issues so contentious they have recently provoked violence…
Is There a Culture War?
A Dialogue on Values and American Public Life
In Is There a Culture War? two of America’s leading authorities on political culture lead a provocative and thoughtful investigation of this question and its ramifications…
Articles of Faith, Articles of Peace
The Religious Liberty Clauses and the American Public Philosophy
Freedom of Religion—protected in America for two hundred years by the Bill of Rights—has become more a source of divisiveness than the binding force it used to be in American life…
See also…
Politics & Culture:
Edited by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen, IV
Ethics & Culture
Science and the Good
The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality
James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality…
The Death of Character
Moral Education in an Age without Good or Evil
Moral education has become the exclusive province of psychology in America. The last book written by a sociologist on this subject was Emile Durkheim in his volume on Moral Education in 1925. Seventy-five years later…
The Content of Their Character
Inquiries into the Varieties of Moral Formation
For most of America’s history, schools were established to furnish more than just academic training: They were founded to form young people of strong character and civic conscience. We rarely think of our schools that way now…
Religion & Late Modernity
To Change The World
The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry?…
Evangelicalism
The Coming Generation
Winner of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s Distinguished Book Award, this book studies the coming generation of Evangelical leaders and the tension of their theology with the late modern world…
American Evangelicalism
Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernity
The field of sociology had entirely ignored the phenomenon of contemporary American Evangelicalism for the better part of the twentieth century. With American Evangelicalism, Hunter introduced the first serious examination of the phenomenon…
Theory & Culture
Making Sense of Modern Times
Peter L. Berger and the Vision of Interpretive Sociology
Peter L. Berger—Hunter’s mentor—was among the pre-eminent sociologists of the twentieth century. His highly creative and controversial writing made a distinct impact not only in sociology but in such disciplines as political science, public policy, history, religious studies and theology…
Cultural Analysis
The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas
Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas…