American Exception, Volume 1

Frank J. Lechner is Professor of Sociology at Emory University, USA. He has published World Culture: Origins and Consequences (2004; with John Boli), The Netherlands: Globalization and National Identity (2008), and Globalization: The Making of World Society (2009). With John Boli he edited The Globalization Reader (fifth edition, 2015).

• 1. Introduction.- 2.“A Shining City”? Perspectives on the American Exception.- 3. “A Sea of Faith”: The American Religious Exception.- 4.“Equal Justice under Law”: The American Legal Exception.- 5. “Almost an Island unto Itself”: The American Sports Exception.