Robert
Bellah has lectured extensively. The following lectures
are currently available on the web. Many
of these lectures
are
not available anywhere else.
- Can
We Be Citizens of a World Empire?
Versions of this
talk were delivered at Iliff School of Theology in Denver Colorado, on
January 28, 2003, and at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, on
March 6, 2003.
- Unitarian
Universalism in Societal Perspective
An address given to the Unitarian Universalist Association, General
Assembly, Rochester, N.Y., June 27, 1998.
- Individualism
and Commitment: "America's Cultural Conversation"
Portland State University March 7, 1995
- Why
do we need a Public Affairs Mission? The Moral Crisis in American
Public Life
a lecture given at Southwest Missouri State University, October 17,
1995
- Max
Weber & World-Denying Love: A Look at the Historical Sociology of Religion*
A lecture for The Humanities Center and
Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society, University of California, San
Diego.
-
Habits of the Heart: Implication for
Religion
A lecture and question and answer session held at St. Mark's
Catholic Church in 1986.
-
Individualism
and Commitment in American Life
A lecture at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, February 20, 1986
- Religion,
Citizenship and the Crisis in Public Education
In this
talk, which is perhaps even more relevant after September 11,
2001 than in 1985
when he first gave it, Bellah interprets the crisis in public education in the context of how the
United States has changed, especially since World War II, from a
democratic to an imperial republic. He stresses the notion of
education for character and citizenship in contrast to the prevailing
notion of education for private advancement. Recognizing religion as
dividing as well as uniting, Bellah also emphasizes the crucial role
of religion in American history. "To leave it out is to empty the
story of . that which makes us citizens," he says. Telling the
story of the United States as it is, including its religious
dimension, neither piously nor cynically, will help to pull students
away from an exclusive concern with private advancement and may, he
adds, "save our democratic republic from the clutches of imperial
power."
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