Gambling Mapping the American Moral Landscape

Name: Gambling Mapping the American Moral Landscape
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ISBN: 9781602581951

ISBN-10: 1602581959

ISBN-13: 9781602581951

Edition: 2009

Authors: Alan Wolfe, Erik C. Owens

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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Publication date: 8/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 516
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Alan Wolfe is the director of the Boisi Center for Religion & American Public Life at Boston College, & author of the best-selling "One Nation After All".



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Politics and Policy of Gambling



The Importance of a Good Cause: Ends and Means in State Lotteries




The Politics of Sovereignty and Public Policy toward Gambling




Negotiating a Different Terrain: Morality, Policymaking, and Indian Gaming




New Politics, Same Old Vice: Gambling in the Twenty-first Century



Individual Behavior and Social Impact



Behavioral and Brain Measures of Risk-Taking




Gambling with the Family?




Gambling and Morality: A Neuropsychiatric Perspective




The Unproblematic Normalization of Gambling in America



Theology, Gambling, and Risk



The Memory of Sin: Gambling in Jewish Law and Ethics




Grace and Gambling




The Criminal Law of Gambling: A Puzzling History




Playing and Praying: What's Luck Got to Do with It?



Gambling in American Culture



Beyond Pathology: The Cultural Meanings of Gambling




Civic Values and "Education Lotteries": The Irony of Funding Public Education with Lottery Revenues




A Tale of Two "Sins": Regulation of Gambling and Tobacco




The Culture War Issue That Never Was: Why the Right and Left Have Overlooked Gambling



Notes


Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index