The
following articles by Robert Bellah are available either on this site or at other sites on the
web. We will soon be posting additional articles on this site.
A complete listing of books
and articles are
available
at Dr.
Bellah's bibliography.
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Cultural Vision and the Human Future
This essay, along with a more recent one entitled “The Renouncers,” posted on The Immanent Frame Blog (http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/08/11/the-renouncers/), are two of Bellah’s essays where he most explicitly addresses ecological issues and generates insights with strong implications for how we treat and relate to the natural environment.
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Reading and Misreading Habits of the Heart
An article reprinted by permission from the journal Sociology of Religion (68:2 189-193) 2007.
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Civil
Religion in America
An article reprinted by permission from the Journal of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, Winter 1967
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Symposium
on the 270th Anniversary of the Founding of Shingaku,
Shingaku and Twenty-First Century Japan
An address given in Kyoto, Japan, October 15, 2000
- The
True Scholar
An article
posted on the web site for the American Association of University
Professors.
- The
Revolution and the Civil Religion chapter in Religion and
the American Revolution by Jerald C. Brauer (ed.)
- At
Home and Not At Home: Religious Pluralism and Religious Truth
The article appeared in The Christian Century, April 19, 1995, pp. 423-428.
- Imperialism,
American Style
This article appeared in The Christian Century, March 8, 2003, pp. 20-25.
- Individualism
and the Crisis of Civic Membership
This article appeared in The Christian Century, March 20-27, l996, pp. 260-265.
- Taming
the Savage Market
This article appeared in The Christian Century, September 18-25, 1991, pps. 844-849.
- Strong
Institutions, Good City (with Christopher Adams)
This article appeared in The Christian Century, June 15-22, 1994 , pp. 604-607.
- Finding
the Church: Post Traditional Discipleship
This article is one in a series from The Christian Century magazine: "How My Mind Has Changed."
- New
Time Religion
(A book review of Varieties of Religion Today:
William James Revisited By Charles Taylor: Harvard University Press) This article appeared in The Christian Century, May 22-26, 2002, pp. 20-26.
- New
Religious Consciousness: Rejecting the Past, Designing the Future
This speech was presented to the Division of Education in the Society, National Council of Churches, in New York, 1974.
- Biblical
Religion and Social Science in the Modern World
A question and answer period followed a 1982 talk of the same
title and drawn largely from this paper given at the Holy Spirit
Chapel in Berkeley. You may find
a transcript of this Q&A within this site.
- Max Weber and
World-Denying Love: A Look at the Historical Sociology of Religion
Professor Bellah presented this essay as a Humanities Center and
Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society at the University of
California, San Diego on October 30, 1997.
The Journal of the American Academy of Religion published the
essay in its fall 1998 (Vol. 66, No. 3: 277-304) issue and is
reprinted here with permission from Oxford University Press.
- Is There a Common
American Culture? Professor Bellah presented this article as a plenary address at the
annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Francisco on
November 22, 1997. It was later reprinted in 1998 in The Journal for the American Academy of Religion.
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