Religion in Human Evolution is an immensely ambitious book on a topic only a scholar of Robert Bellah’s stature could…
Dangerous evolutions?
Robert Bellah
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…
What should we now do differently?
No one reading this seven hundred page book can fail to be impressed with the sweep of its argument or…
The big bang
Peter Manseau reviews Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution.
Robert Bellah on religion’s place in evolution
The Atlantic interviews Robert Bellah about his new tome Religion in Human Evolution. In the interview, he explains the impetus…
Crafting the secular studies syllabus
Pitzer College having announced that it will offer a major in "secular studies," the Harvard University Press Blog compiles a…
The (really) strong program
Whenever there is talk about an ‘emerging strong program’ and ‘a new sociology of religion,’ we need to keep in…
Echoes of American civil religion
It is interesting to revisit civil religion discourse in the context of a new time and its discontents, and the…
A Neo-Weberian theory of American civil religion
The American civil religion, Robert Bellah argued, was derived from two sources, one religious and the other secular: the covenant…
Obama’s civil religion
At U.S. Intellectual History, Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. appraises Barack Obama's implicit invocations of civil religion in this week's speech on…