In the past fifty years, the study of religion and violence has grown exponentially. One reason for this is obvious:…
Thinking about religion and violence
Robert Bellah
Habits of the heart
For some scholars in the humanities and social sciences, old age is a period of abiding productivity. Upon reaching his…
Essays on Religion in Human Evolution
Cambridge University Press is currently offering free access to the three essays in the review symposium on Robert Bellah's Religion…
A conversation with Robert Bellah
Margarita A. Mooney interviews Robert Bellah at Patheos.
Upcoming talks by Robert Bellah
Robert Bellah, the eminent American sociologist whose latest book, Religion in Human Evolution, was the subject of a recent discussion series on this…
People make religions and religions make people
In How to Believe, a blog on "great works of religion and philosophy" hosted by The Guardian, Andrew Brown has been writing…
A Conversation with Robert Bellah on Religion in Human Evolution
The following video is of Robert Bellah's comments at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion held…
Evolutionary theory and religion
Charles Mathewes, of The American Interest, discusses the role of religion in evolutionary theory and analyzes two publications on this…
Colonialism’s religious domain
Recently I am struck by the ambiguity of the concept of the religious. Reading Linda Heuman’s review of Robert Bellah’s…
New review of Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman reviews Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution, highlighting the place Bellah gives…