• Can We Be Citizens of a World Empire? 
  Versions of this talk were delivered at Iliff School of Theology in Denver Colorado, on January 28, 2003, and at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, on March 6, 2003.  
  
• Whose Family?  Whose Values?
  A lecture for the Center for Anglican Learning & Life (CALL) Issue Forum, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, April 28, 2001

• Unitarian Universalism in Societal Perspective
  An address given to the Unitarian Universalist Association, General Assembly, Rochester, N.Y., June 27, 1998.  

• Individualism and Commitment: "America's Cultural Conversation" 
  Portland State University March 7, 1995
  
  

• Why do we need a Public Affairs Mission?  The Moral Crisis in American Public Life
  a lecture given at Southwest Missouri State University, October 17, 1995
  
  
• Max Weber & World-Denying Love:  A Look at the Historical Sociology of Religion*
  A lecture for The Humanities Center and Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society, University of California, San Diego.  The manuscript for this lecture is also available on this site.  In addition, you can watch the interview* conducted by co-author Richard Madsen prior this lecture.   
  
  
• Habits of the Heart:  Implication for Religion 
  A lecture and question and answer session held at St. Mark's Catholic Church in 1986.
  
  
• Individualism and Commitment in American Life
  A lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, February 20, 1986
  
  
• Religion, Citizenship and the Crisis in Public Education
  In this talk, which is perhaps even more relevant after September 11, 2001 than in 1985 when he first gave it, Bellah interprets the crisis in public education in the context of how the United States has changed, especially since World War II, from a democratic to an imperial republic. He stresses the notion of education for character and citizenship in contrast to the prevailing notion of education for private advancement. Recognizing religion as dividing as well as uniting, Bellah also emphasizes the crucial role of religion in American history. "To leave it out is to empty the story of . that which makes us citizens," he says. Telling the story of the United States as it is, including its religious dimension, neither piously nor cynically, will help to pull students away from an exclusive concern with private advancement and may, he adds, "save our democratic republic from the clutches of imperial power." 
  

• Is Capitalism Compatible with "Traditional Morality"?
  A lecture at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1983
  
  
• Cultural Identity and Asian Modernization
  A lecture at the Centennial Symposium, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics Kokugakuin University, 1983

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