Alan Wolfe & Erik C. Owens 
Gambling [PDF ebook] 
Mapping the American Moral Landscape

The Politics and Policy of Gambling

1. 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

Alan Wolfe is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College. A prolific and esteemed writer and speaker, Wolfe’s books include The Future of Liberalism; Does American Democracy Still Work?; and Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What it Needs to Do to Recover It. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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.