The Robert Bellah Reader Book

Contents

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....................377
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 TrueScholar....................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 Works by Robert N. Bellah....................523
Index....................543