These are the one's I decided to be done with even if I did not exactly read every single word! In order from recent to least recent:
- The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West – Mark Lilla
- God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America – Naomi Schaefer Riley
- Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War – Joe Bageant
- The Future of Faith – Harvey Cox
- Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire – William T. Cavanaugh
- God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World – John Micklethwait
- Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back – Douglas Rushkoff
- Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life – Anthony T. Kronman
- The Sacred and the Secular University – Multiple Authors
- Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education – Arthur W. Chickering
- Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers – Christian Smith
- The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism: Sects and New Religious Movements in Contemporary Society – Bryan R. Wilson
- Religious America, Secular Europe?: A Theme and Variations – Peter Berger
- Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion – Wade Clark Roof
- After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion – Robert Wuthnow
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism – Susan Jacoby
- A History of American Higher Education – John R. Thelin
- Secularization: An Analysis at Three Levels (Gods, Humans & Religion) – Karel Dobbelaere
- Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World – Tracy Kidder
- Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics) – Pippa Norris
- General Theory of Secularization (Explorations in Interpretative Society) – David Martin
- Religion in Secular Society: A Sociological Comment – Bryan Wilson
- God is Dead: Secularization in the West (Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World) – Steve Bruce
- Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion – Rodney Stark
- The Secular City – Harvey Cox
- The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life – Christian Smith (Editor)
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Is it significant that all these books were written within the last decade or so?
For all its diversity of contemporary viewpoint, does reading only current, post-everything writing lead to a kind of echo chamber? I worry that time-delimited spiritual reading, may eventually render Christians completely unmoored from the faith of the apostles.
those aren't the only things i read. i read the bible, patristics, barth, etc. on a regular basis – all of which i have read before. this was just one year. and i am focusing on a lot of contemporary sociology of religion and education for a dissertation right now.
Hey, I've read some of these too…
Here's my 2009 read books list:
http://azplace.net/post/312204436/my-colossal-2...