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A brief biography of Robert N. Bellah Robert N. Bellah (February 23, 1927 - July 30, 2013) was Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. Bellah graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with a B.A. in social anthropology in 1950. His undergraduate honors thesis on “Apache Kinship Systems” won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize and was published by the Harvard University Press. In 1955, he received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Sociology and Far Eastern Languages and published his doctoral dissertation, Tokugawa Religion, in 1957. After two years of postdoctoral work in Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, he began teaching at Harvard in 1957 and left 10 years later as Professor of Sociology to move to the University of California, Berkeley. From 1967 to 1997, he served as Ford Professor of Sociology. Other works include Beyond Belief, Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society, The Broken Covenant, The New Religious Consciousness, Varieties of Civil Religion, Uncivil Religion, Imagining Japan and, most recently, The Robert Bellah Reader. The latter reflects his work as a whole and the overall direction of his life in scholarship “to understand the meaning of modernity.” Continuing concerns already developed in part in “Civil Religion in America” and The Broken Covenant, led to a book Bellah co-authored with Richard Madsen, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven Tipton. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life published by the University of California Press in 1985. The same group wrote The Good Society, an institutional analysis of American society, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1991. On December 20, 2000, Bellah received the United States National Humanities Medal. The citation, which President William Jefferson Clinton signed, reads:
In July 2008, Bellah and Professor Hans Joas, who holds appointments in both the University of Chicago and Freiburg University in Germany, organized a conference at the Max Weber Center of the University of Erfurt on “The Axial Age and Its Consequences for Subsequent History and the Present,” attended by a distinguished group of international scholars interested in comparative history and sociology. At the conclusion of the conference, the University of Erfurt awarded Bellah an honorary degree. Harvard University Press published the proceedings of this conference as The Axial Age and Its Consequences in 2012. In September of 2011 the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press published Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, the result of Bellah’s lifetime interest in the evolution of religion and thirteen years of work on this volume. Princeton University Press, on October 19, 2021, will publish the Italian sociologist Matteo Bortolini's biography of Robert Bellah, A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah. News and Articles Commenting on Robert Bellah's PassingComments on the Passing of Robert N. Bellah by Jeffrey C. Alexander Robert Bellah, Sociologist of Religion, Dies at 86 In Memoriam: Robert N. Bellah Robert Bellah, 1927-2013 The Passing of Robert Bellah Robert Bellah, preeminent American sociologist of religion, dies at 86 by Yasmin Anwar, Remembering Robert Bellah by Jeff Guhin Robert Bellah Departs by Mark Silk, In Memory of Robert N. Bellah by Ji Zhe Farewell to Robert Bellah Robert Bellah, 1927-2013 Robert Bellah, McCarthyism, and Harvard Robert N. Bellah dies at 86; UC Berkeley Sociologist Renowned professor emeritus of sociology Robert Bellah dies at 86 Remembering Robert N. Bellah by John A. Coleman In Memoriam: Robert N. Bellah Reaganism, Capitalism and Sheilaism Robert Bellah by Claude S. Fischer Robert Bellah, Sociologist of Religion Who Mapped the American Soul, Dies at 86 A Language of Solidarity by the Editors Robert Bellah, Influential Religion Scholar, Dies at 86 by John Dart The Father of America’s ‘Civil Religion’ by Michael Kazin In Memoriam: Professor Robert N. Bellah Remembering Robert Bellah by Martin E. Marty Robert N. Bellah dies – UC Berkeley professor Robert Bellah’s Powerful Legacy: A Mixed Blessing for Religious Studies? by Ivan Strenski Quote for the Day by Andrew Sullivan Habits of the Heart by Hans Joas Robert Bellah, Sociologist of Religion, Dies at 86 Invoking God in America by Joseph Margulies What I Learned from Robert Bellah by Richard J. Mouw Remembering Robert N. Bellah by Andrew Barshay The Logic of the Holy: Robert Bellah, 1927-2013 by Steven M. Tipton What is Religion? Part 1: Civil Religion and the State by Andrew Brown Remembering Robert Bellah by Steven M. Tipton Social Science as Public Philosophy for the 21st Century by the Austin Institute Robert Bellah: In Memoriam (1927-2013) by Richard Madsen A Short Essay in Memory of Robert N. Bellah (1927-2013) by Richard L. Wood A Farewell Letter to Robert Bellah by Joe Palacios In Memoriam: Robert Neelly Bellah (1927-2013) by Mark Juergensmeyer Remembering Robert Bellah by Gordon Clanton In Memoriam by Ann Swidler and Claude Fischer In 2006, Dr. Bellah sent the following email note to his former student, friend, and the co-manager of this website, Samuel Porter, in response to the death of Sam ’s father, Charles Porter, a former attorney and U.S. Congressman. Monday Feb. 3, 2006 Dear Sam: |
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