The Robert Bellah reader
A collection of twenty-eight of the seminal essays of Robert N. Bellah, a visionary leader in the social study of religion and lead author of the bestselling Habits of the Heart.
viii, 555 p. ; 24 cm.
9780822388135, 9780822338550, 9780822338710, 0822388138, 0822338556, 0822338718
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Preface viiIntroduction 1I. Comparative and Theoretical 191. Religious Evolution 232. The Five Religions of Modern Italy 513. To Kill and Survive or to Die and Become 814. Stories as Arrows: The Religious Response to Modernity 1075. Max Weber and World-Denying Love 1236. Durkheim and Ritual 1507 Rousseau on Society and the Individual 1818. The History of Habit 203II. American Religion 2219. Civil Religion in America 22510. Religion and the Legitimation of the American Republic 24611. The New Religious Consciousness and the Crisis of Modernity 26512. The Kingdom of God in America: Language of Faith, Language of Nation, Language of Empire 28513. Citizenship, Diversity, and the Search for the Common Good 30314. Is There a Common American Culture? 31915. Flaws in the Protestant Code: Theological Roots of American Individualism 33316. The New American Empire 35017. God and King 357III. University and Society 18. The Ethical Aims of Social Inquiry 38119. Class Wars and Culture Wars in the University Today 40220. Freedom, Coercion, and Authority 41021. The True Scholar 42122. Education for Justice and the Common Good 434IV. Sociology and Theology 45123. On Being Catholic and American 45724. Religious Pluralism and Religious Truth 47425. Texts, Sacred and Profane 49026. Epiphany: “Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit” 50427. Pentecost: “Beginning in the End of Times” 51028. All Souls Day: “The Living and the Dead in Communion” 515Bibliography of Words by Robert N. Bellah 523Index 542
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