Robert N. Bellah, a leading sociologist of the last half-century and author of the pathbreaking Habits of the Heart (1985), has died. There haven’t been many obituaries yet. In those available, I ...

Robert Bellah, a renowned professor emeritus of sociology at UC Berkeley, died Tuesday of complications following a heart valve operation. He was 86. Bellah is famous for his concept of American ...

Robert N. Bellah, an eminent sociologist of religion most remembered for defining the interplay of U.S. religion and politics as a civil religion and for describing Sheilaism, a forerunner of today’s ...

Robert N. Bellah, a UC Berkeley sociologist who turned the analysis of religion’s role in American society into a bestselling book and a thriving academic pursuit, died Tuesday at an Oakland hospital.

Sociologists are reputed to be masters of suspicion, and many keep their distance from religious belief and practice. Robert Bellah’s field was the sociology of religion, and the longtime University ...

(UPDATED) Author of ‘Habits of the Heart’ lamented decline of family and community—years before almost anyone else. Update (Aug. 2): UC Berkeley has released an obituary lauding Bellah as a ...

(RNS) — This year is the 50th anniversary of Robert Bellah’s essay “Civil Religion in America.” I read it shortly after it appeared, and it clarified my thinking about “God and country” talk. As a ...

The eminent sociologist Robert Bellah, the lead author of the landmark book Habits of the Heart, has a fascinating essay on Barack Obama the website The Immanent Frame. And these reflections on the ...

I am not fully recovered yet from my heart attack, but have been occupying my convalescence with Robert Bellah's book Religion in Human Evolution, and it's so powerful that I am going to write about ...

In one recent week, time took two heroes. So far as I know, the legendary civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers and the esteemed public intellectual Robert Bellah never met. They lived on opposite ends ...

The Social Science Research Council has lstarted a blog called The Immanent Frame, dedicated to a dialogue and critical exchange about how secularism and religion interact in the public sphere. For ...