The Robert Bellah Reader - 9780822338550

The Robert Bellah ReaderAuthor(s): Robert N. Bellah, Steven M. Tipton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822338550, 978-0822338550\nSynopsis\nPerhaps best known for his coauthored bestselling books Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Robert N. Bellah is a truly visionary leader in the social study of religion. For more than four decades, he has examined the role of religion in modern and premodern societies, attempting to discern how religious meaning is formed and how it shapes ethical and political practices. The Robert Bellah Reader brings together twenty-eight of Bellahs seminal essays. While the essays span a period of more than forty years, nearly half of them were written in the past decade, many in the past few [url] Reader is organized around four central concerns. It seeks to place modernity in theoretical and historical perspective, drawing from major figures in social science, historical a.