These interviews with Robert Bellah are either transcripts or audio and video files of question and answer sessions that can be viewed or listened to online.  To view the webcast interviews, you might need to download free RealPlayer software.

• Where Did Religion Come From
  Robert Bellah describes his book, Religion in Human Evolution, in this entry at The Immanent Frame.
  
  
• Mao’s Spell and the Need to Break It
  This article, in The New York Times, Thursday, December 29, 2011, reports on Professor Bellah’s views of China and the need to break Mao’s spell and develop ethical standards to succeed the “eviscerated” Marxism of the Communist Party “if China is to fulfill its ability to be one of the great powers of the 21st century.”
  
  
• The Roots of Religion
  In this October 3, 2011 interview with the Templeton Report staff about Religion in Human Evolution, Robert Bellah talks about, among other things, what he means by religion in human evolution; the role of play in religious evolution; the significance of the Axial Age; religion less as a set of propositions or a way knowing and more as practice, story and a way of life; and how teaching religion is more like teaching Shakespeare, not teaching “about” Shakespeare.
  
  
• Nothing Is Ever Lost
  In this interview, by Nathan Schneider and posted on The Immanent Frame website, Robert Bellah discusses his recently released book Religion in Human Evolution, September 14th, 2011.
  
  
• Where Does Religion Come From?
  An interview with Robert Bellah on Religion in Human Evolution on the Atlantic Wire, a blog of the Atlantic Monthly, August 17, 2011.
  
  
• An interview with Robert Bellah for the German media organization, Deutsche Welle, July 29, 2011.
  
  
• Rethinking secularism and religion in the global age
  Mark Juergensmeyer interviewed Robert Bellah in the fall of 2008 regarding his views on religious evolution, the ideas of religion and secularism, the rise of extreme positions associated with both of those terms, and the future of universalistic faiths in an emerging global civil society. Read an excerpt from this discussion or the full transcript of the conversation available in PDF.
  

• Robert Bellah on Religion, Morality,and the Politics of Resentment
  An interview with American Association of University Professors general secretary Roger Bowen, Academe Online, January-February 2006.
  
  
• Of God, Justice and Disunited States
  In Barry Bergman's October 26, 2006 profile for the Berkeleyan, UC Berkeley's staff/faculty weekly, Robert Bellah remembers when "religion and politics" meant Rev. Martin Luther King, Rev. William Sloane Coffin, and divinity students sitting in for civil rights -- a commitment to social justice he traces back to the Hebrew prophets'"ringing opposition to oppression and poverty.
  
  
• A World of Ideas
  A conversation with Bill Moyers on the American political climate from September 27, 1988.
  
  
• 10 minutes with … Robert Bellah
  An interview by Daniel Burke for Religion News Service about the idea of civil religion, January 28, 2009.
  
  
• Prophetic Habits of a Sociologist's Heart
  An article written about Robert Bellah appearing in Christianity Today, July 8, 2002.
  
  
• In God We Trust:  Civil and Uncivil Religion in America
  A Radio National interview on Sunday, June 26, 2000.
  
  
• Community, family, religion, and country according to sociologist Robert Bellah 
  An interview originally appearing in the February 3, 1989, issue of Christianity Today.
  
  
• "Not An Impressive Period"
  An interview with The Heroism Project reflecting on history and society in the 1970's.