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• W1232677303 abstract "Christianity and Civil Society: Contemporary Debate. By Robert Wuthnow. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1996. 103 pp. $15.00 (cloth). Robert Wuthnow, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Social Sciences and Director of Center for the Study of American Religion at Princeton University, has authored 15 books and is recognized as a leading sociologist of religion. present writing is part of the Rockwell Lecture Series at Houston's Rice University. focus here is upon those aspects of our social life not narrowly subject to such compelling influences as law, politics, or economics: it is instead upon our lives as we choose to organize and predispose them voluntarilyfor instance in light of our freedom of association. The civil-society debate is vitally concerned with the extent and quality of social interaction, with relationships that build and sustain moral commitment and character, and with the collective values that implicitly or explicitly define us as a people (p. 2). Wuthnow's topic is not about the largely mythical community alleged by some to exist, or to be possible, in a nearly harmonious condition. He is concerned, rather, with civil society, in which personal values and preferences for establishing and maintaining our social selves are kept in tension with the values, attitudes, and behaviors of large collectivities around us. In society with others, we are exposed to such unpleasant realities as homelessness, crime, racism, neglect of the poor, and the like, and these press upon the consciences of concerned people. Public issues of humane implication and human consequence prompt three key questions for us these days, says the author, and he considers each of these in this writing. Is Civil Society in Jeopardy? is Chapter One's subject, with account taken of such problems as widespread dishonesty (with its erosion of the trust necessary for society's agreeable functioning) and the apparent decline in civic-mindedness. Wuthnow presents statistical survey data purporting to demonstrate diminishment of voluntary citizen participation in society; then he contests this with contrary data. role of religion in buttressing civil society is hard to specify with precision, so you have such luminaries as George Gallup and Robert Putnam proclaiming religion's fecklessness in this regard, but you also have Will Herberg's suggestion (quoted here with approbation) that the religious commitments of Americans have always tended to be shallow, so what's new? Bonhoeffer of course had foreseen the large problem when he observed that fewer of us any longer resort to the God notion as a working hypothesis. When this happens religion becomes, in Stephen Carter's apt phrase, trivialized. Wuthnow considers all this and pronounces the problem grave for U.S. adults and disastrous for our teenagers. Churches can become leaner and meaner (p. 26), he says, and so can recover a role as contributor to the well-being of the larger society. Depressingly, the evidence for this Wuthnow finds most vividly in the Christian Right-expressly Operation Rescue, Moral Majority; Christian Coalition, and so forth. (He does not appear to commend the content of this activism, or its premises.) A question in the reader's mind at this point might be, Why haven't the progressives, or liberals, or however these folks think of themselves, bothered to do comparable organizing? Perhaps because it is more tasty to be right than effectively to challenge a system that privileges us. But the reviewer digresses. Economic self-interest, job stress, mothers increasingly entering the work force, and similar factors, the author notes, weaken our prospects for a civil society. …" @default.
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