Introduction, Craig Hovey and Lisa Fisher
1. The Social Construction of Polarization in the Discourse of Gun
Rights vs. Gun Control, Lisa Fisher
2. American Gun Culture Encounters Christian Ethics: A Clash of
Narratives, Mark Ryan
3. Social Violence: The Role of Gun Culture, Binod Kumar
4. Gender Differences in Youth Gun Culture: A Discussion of
Caribbean Findings using the lens of U.S. Gun Culture, Carolyn
Gentle-Genitty, Jangmin Kim, and Corinne C. Renguette
5. Brothers in Arms?: Merkel’s Foreign Policy and the
Americanization of German Gun Culture, Rachel E. Boaz
6. Christians for Gun Rights? An Investigation of the Discrepancy
between the Gun Rights View and Christian Faith, Matt Stolick
7. The American Gun Culture: Potential Impact on K–12 School
Violence, Gordon Arthur Crews and Garrison Allen Crews
8. What’s Next? Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun
Culture, David Yamane
Craig Hovey is associate professor of religion at Ashland
University and executive director of the Ashland Center for
Nonviolence.
Lisa Fisher worked in higher education for more than a decade and
is now consulting director for a Washington, DC IT firm.
This ambitiously titled work, published in the context of
high-profile mass shootings, contains eight chapters. . . Valuable
contributions focus on the rhetoric surrounding gun ownership, the
gun culture of law-abiding citizens, and a study on the profiles of
mass shooters in school settings. At first glance, the book suffers
from having two chapters on the same subject: reconciling Christian
ethics and US gun ownership. However, the Christian ethics chapter,
by Matt Stolick, is the standout chapter of the book. He writes an
excellent overview of gun laws in relation to the gun industry,
though the chapter would have been better placed toward the front
of the book. Chapters on social violence and gender differences in
Caribbean and German gun culture are interesting. . . Overall, this
book contributes to the literature on gun culture.
Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and
above.
*CHOICE*
Understanding America's Gun Culture is a thoughtful and insightful
edited collection. This book will help to inject relevant and
contemporary gun culture topics into any classroom, and provide
meaningful substance for anyone interested in these weighty and
controversial topics.
*Jim D. Taylor, Ohio University, Zanesville*
Understanding America's Gun Culture is an earnest reflection from a
full range of perspectives on America’s gun culture and its growing
influence in the Caribbean and Europe. Its essays address
thoughtfully the rhetorical strategies and moral justifications in
the many-sided debate over the role of guns in American life.
*Randolph Roth, Ohio State University*
Many contributions to the fatally grid-locked and depressingly
partisan U.S. gun debate generate more heat than light, serving
only to further entrench the respective positions of advocates.
This book, focusing instead upon the debate itself, provides a
welcome and refreshing change. Drawing upon a wide range of social
scientific, ethical, and philosophical perspectives, the various
chapters comprising the collection seek to unpack and explore the
much contested debate itself, what it means, how it works, and what
it tells us about the contemporary U.S. This is essential reading
for anyone interested in this vital aspect of U.S. law, politics,
and culture and bold enough to relinquish the tired old clichés for
the nuance and complexity of understanding a real world
dilemma.
*Peter Squires, University of Brighton*
This edited volume is unique in its scope and contemplation of the
role of firearms in society. With a wide range of expertise among
the authors, this collection of essays offers something for anyone
who is curious about the link between firearms and culture.
*Trent Steidley, University of Denver*
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