ISBN:
9780822338550
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (565 p)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Christiano, Kevin J. The Robert Bellah Reader 2009
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Coleman, John Aloysius, 1937 - [Rezension von: Bellah, Robert N., The Robert Bellah Reader] 2010
Parallel Title:
Print version The Robert Bellah Reader
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
A collection of twenty-eight of the seminal essays of Robert N. Bellah, a visionary leader in the social study of religion and lead author of the bestselling Habits of the Heart
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Introduction; I COMPARATIVE AND THEORETICAL; 1 Religious Evolution; 2 The Five Religions of Modern Italy; 3 To Kill and Survive or to Die and Become; 4 Stories as Arrows: The Religious Response to Modernity; 5 Max Weber and World-Denying Love; 6 Durkheim and Ritual; 7 Rousseau on Society and the Individual; 8 The History of Habit; I I AMERICAN RELIGION; 9 Civil Religion in America; 10 Religion and the Legitimation of the American Republic; 11 The New Religious Consciousness and the Crisis of Modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
12 The Kingdom of God in America: Language of Faith, Language of Nation, Language of Empire13 Citizenship, Diversity, and the Search for the Common Good; 14 Is There a Common American Culture?; 15 Flaws in the Protestant Code: Theological Roots of American Individualism; 16 The New American Empire; 17 God and King; III UNIVERSITY AND SOCIETY; 18 The Ethical Aims of Social Inquiry; 19 Class Wars and Culture Wars in the University Today; 20 Freedom, Coercion, and Authority; 21 The True Scholar; 22 Education for Justice and the Common Good; IV SOCIOLOGY AND THEOLOGY
Description / Table of Contents:
23 On Being Catholic and American24 Religious Pluralism and Religious Truth; 25 Texts, Sacred and Profane; 26 Epiphany: ''Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit''; 27 Pentecost: ''Beginning in the End of Times''; 28 All Souls Day: ''The Living and the Dead in Communion''; Bibliography of Works by Robert N. Bellah; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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