Article: American habits: Robert Bellah and cultural reformation.(Critical essay)

Article: The Robert Bellah Reader
The Virginia Quarterly Review;  April 1, 2007 ;     578 words ...The Robert Bellah Reader, edited by Robert N. Bellah and Steven M. Tipton. Duke, October 2006. $27.95 paper Calling Robert Bellah a sociologist is like calling Louis Armstrong a trumpet player. The Bellah Reader demonstrates what a serious ...

Article: Robert Bellah on Religion, Morality, and the ...
Academe;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... premier sociologist of religion talks to MUP general secretary Roger Bowen. In a 1977 issue of the New York Review of Books, Robert Bellah and McGeorge Bundy exchanged letters in response to a book review that touched on the behavior of Harvard University during ...

Encyclopedia entry: Robert Bellah
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      427 words ...Robert Bellah ,1927-, American sociologist and educator. He was educated at Harvard before becoming Elliot professor of sociology at the ...

Article: "Individualism has been allowed to run rampant." (A Conversation ...
U.S. News & World Report;  May 27, 1985 ;     700+ words ..."Dark side" of the self In many ways, individualism is a positive feature of the American character and culture. But it also has destructive potential. In the past, its dark side was constrained by society's institutions, like the small town where people knew and helped each other. But because of

Article: Lewis Perry, Boats Against the Current: American ...
Nineteenth-Century Prose;  March 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... the "modern" in American culture, from the early ... enduring bedrock of American culture than to chart its ... as Allan Bloom and Robert Bellah, Perry insists that ... interpretation of American culture in which Jackson ...

Article: CATHOLICS AND AMERICAN CULTURE: FULTON SHEEN, ...
Theological Studies;  March 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...CATHOLICS AND AMERICAN CULTURE: FULTON SHEEN, DOROTHY DAY ... ghetto, they embraced mainstream American culture and values as thoroughly compatible ... challenges his conclusion. As Robert Bellah has argued, Kennedy's inaugural ...

Article: The Power of Religious Publics: Staking Claims in American ...
Church History;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... disputes about religion in the public sphere. One of the most thought-provoking essays is Robert Bellah's, "Is There a Common American Culture?" Bellah answers his question, "yes," building on both respect for individual conscience ...