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Gambling

Mapping the American Moral Landscape

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Gambling

Mapping the American Moral Landscape

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Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.S. when other historical vices, like smoking and drinking, continue to evoke morality-based opposition? That simple but intriguing question guides this path-breaking volume, the first interdisciplinary academic study of gambling. Led by the renowned Alan Wolfe and with essays by experts at the country's premiere centers in public policy, clinical addiction, law, gaming, psychology, sociology, moral philosophy, theology, and the arts, Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape is a tour de force of the booming cultural and moral phenomenon that has become woven into the fabric of American life. Both an attempt to understand and an effort to predict its future consequences, the book will prove evocative and critical reading for American civic and church leaders, activists, historians and government officials.

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Publisher
Baylor University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781602585126
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title, Title Page, Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. The Importance of a Good Cause: Ends and Meansin State Lotteries
  7. 2. The Politics of Sovereignty and Public Policy toward Gambling
  8. 3. Negotiating a Different Terrain: Morality, Policymaking, and Indian Gaming
  9. 4. New Politics, Same Old Vice: Gambling in the Twenty-first Century
  10. 5. Behavioral and Brain Measures of Risk-Taking
  11. 6. Gambling with the Family?
  12. 7. Gambling and Morality: A Neuropsychiatric Perspective
  13. 8. The Unproblematic Normalization of Gambling in America
  14. 9. The Memory of Sin: Gambling in Jewish Law and Ethics
  15. 10. Grace and Gambling
  16. 11. The Criminal Law of Gambling: A Puzzling History
  17. 12. Playing and Praying: What’s Luck Got to Do with It?
  18. 13. Beyond Pathology: The Cultural Meanings of Gambling
  19. 14. Civic Values and “Education Lotteries”: The Irony of Funding Public Education with Lottery Revenues
  20. 15. A Tale of Two "Sins": Regulation of Gambling and Tobacco
  21. 16. The Culture War Issue That Never Was: Why the Right and Left Have Overlooked Gambling
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. List of Contributors
  25. Index