If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire
of the Nations; John Milbank's critique
of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading
of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral
Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian
Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in
Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving
of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.
The Australian study is also important because it reminds us
of a similar study done here for the federal Department
of Justice and released in 2009: The Legal
Problems of Everyday Life — The Nature, Extent and Consequences
of Justiciable
Problems Experienced by Canadians, by A. Currie.