Welcome to the web pages dedicated to the work of Robert N. Bellah

Robert Neelly Bellah is an American sociologist and educator, who for 30 years served as professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. His books on the sociology of religion, including Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World (1970), The Broken Covenant (1975), Habits of the Heart (1985), and The Good Society (1991), have shaped the discipline.  In 1985, Habits of the Heart won The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for "Current Interest" and, in 1986, was a Jury Nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-fiction.  In 2000, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Clinton.

This site contains Professor Bellah's Biography, Publications, and a complete up-to-date Bibliography, as well as several of his Articles, Lectures and Interviews. We hope you find this website helpful for thinking about the social nature of religion and morality in the modern world.

Robert N. Bellah Robert N. Bellah
Department of Sociology
University of California 
Berkeley, California

94720-1980
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