Bellah / Tipton The Robert Bellah Reader

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8813-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 568 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bellah, Robert N.

Tipton, Steven M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Introduction 1

I. Comparative and Theoretical 19

1. Religious Evolution 23

2. The Five Religions of Modern Italy 51

3. To Kill and Survive or to Die and Become 81

4. Stories as Arrows: The Religious Response to Modernity 107

5. Max Weber and World-Denying Love 123

6. Durkheim and Ritual 150

7 Rousseau on Society and the Individual 181

8. The History of Habit 203

II. American Religion 221

9. Civil Religion in America 225

10. Religion and the Legitimation of the American Republic 246

11. The New Religious Consciousness and the Crisis of Modernity 265

12. The Kingdom of God in America: Language of Faith, Language of Nation, Language of Empire 285

13. Citizenship, Diversity, and the Search for the Common Good 303

14. Is There a Common American Culture? 319

15. Flaws in the Protestant Code: Theological Roots of American Individualism 333

16. The New American Empire 350

17. God and King 357

III. University and Society

18. The Ethical Aims of Social Inquiry 381

19. Class Wars and Culture Wars in the University Today 402

20. Freedom, Coercion, and Authority 410

21. The True Scholar 421

22. Education for Justice and the Common Good 434

IV. Sociology and Theology 451

23. On Being Catholic and American 457

24. Religious Pluralism and Religious Truth 474

25. Texts, Sacred and Profane 490

26. Epiphany: “Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit” 504

27. Pentecost: “Beginning in the End of Times” 510

28. All Souls Day: “The Living and the Dead in Communion” 515

Bibliography of Words by Robert N. Bellah 523

Index 542

Über Autor(innen)

Robert N. Bellah is the Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He coauthored The Good Society and Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and has sold more than 500,000 copies. His other books include Imagining Japan, The Broken Covenant, and Beyond Belief. In 2000 President Clinton awarded Bellah the National Humanities Medal.Steven M. Tipton teaches sociology and religion at Emory University and its Candler School of Theology, where he is a Professor and Director of the Graduate Division of Religion. He is the author of Getting Saved from the Sixties and Public Pulpits (forthcoming) and a coauthor of The Good Society and Habits of the Heart.