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Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781602581951 |
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Publisher: | Baylor University Press |
Publication date: | 08/01/2009 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 516 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Erik C. Owens is Assistant Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology, Boston College. He lives in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
The Politics and Policy of Gambling1. The Importance of a Good Cause: Ends and Means in State Lotteries
2. The Politics of Sovereignty and Public Policy Toward Gambling
3. Negotiating a Different Terrain: Morality Policymaking and Indian Gaming
4. New Policies, Same Old Vice: Gambling in the 21st Century
Individual Behavior and Social Impact
5. Behavioral and Brain Measures of Risk-Taking
6. Gambling with the Family?
7. Gambling and Morality: A Neuropsychiatric Perspective
8. The Unproblematic Normalization of Gambling in America
Theology, Gambling and Risk
9. The Memory of Sin: Gambling in Jewish Law and Ethics
10. Grace and Gambling
11. The Criminal Law of Gambling: A Puzzling History
12. Playing and Praying: What's Luck Got to Do with It?
Gambling in American Culture
13. Beyond Pathology: The Cultural Meanings of Gambling
14. Civic Values and Education Lotteries: The Irony of Funding Public Education with Lottery Revenues
15. A Tale of Two "Sins": Regulation of Gambling and Tobacco
16. The Culture War Issue that Never Was: Why the Right and Left Have Overlooked Gambling
What People are Saying About This
A vivid demonstration of how profoundly gambling intersects with politics, economics, culture, and even theology. I highly recommend it.
A dramatic advance in scholarly consideration of this neglected phenomenon in American life. It brings together a brilliant interdisciplinary team.
Groundbreaking. Wolfe and Owens explain why gambling has been ignored in our national values debateand consequences of the omission.
An invaluable guide for understanding the roots of gambling in the American psyche and its implications for the future.
A vivid demonstration of how profoundly gambling intersects with politics, economics, culture, and even theology. I highly recommend it.