For some scholars in the humanities and social sciences, old age is a period of abiding productivity. Upon reaching his…
Habits of the heart
Religion in Human Evolution
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.
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…
Good news from the grand narrative
To be asked to contribute a commentary on Professor Robert Bellah’s magnum opus is a great honor and a privilege…
Back to his roots
When writing about other people, we all should follow Pierre Bourdieu’s advice to not be too fascinated by our human…