In a special session at the meetings of the American Academy of Religion on November 20, 2011, Robert Bellah discussed…
Religion in Human Evolution
A response to three readers
I am grateful to Mark Juergensmeyer for organizing a panel on my book at the November 2011 meetings of the…
Axial axioms
The word “magisterial” in publishers’ blurbs usually means little more than “too long,” and indeed Religion in Human Evolution is…
A damned good read
When I first received my copy of Religion in Human Evolution by post, the initial impression was of its sheer…
The return of the grand narrative
The subtitle of Bellah’s book, From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, indicates that it is about religions between the…
Beyond reductive naturalism
Future histories may report that the public discourse on religion was dominated by reductive naturalism until Robert Bellah’s Religion in…
Five questions for Robert Bellah
It is a pleasure and an honor to engage a book that is truly large in ways beyond its sheer…
State of the Species
Human beings live in virtual worlds that define what they value, what they aspire to, and what they are able…
Dangerous evolutions?
Religion in Human Evolution is an immensely ambitious book on a topic only a scholar of Robert Bellah’s stature could…
Where religion comes from and leads us
In seeking to make sense of modernity in the classical tradition of sociology as a field, the body of Robert…