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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

14 reviews
Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, ...

University of California Press, 2007

Sorting It All Out
HABITS OF THE HEART is a tour de force whose insights into America are as relevant today as they were nearly twenty years ago when the book was published. It was hailed at that time as an instant classic of sociology, and compared to such influential works as MIDDLETOWN and THE LONELY CROWD. If anything, its insights are even more pertinent now. The subtitle "Individualism and Commitment in ...

The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Yale University Press, 2002

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political writings - "The Social Contract" and "The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts)" and "The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality)" - and presents essays ...

Good Society

4 reviews
Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, ...

Vintage, 1992

Individuals and Institutions
This book by Robert Bellah and his colleagues elaborates upon the need for re-thinking the relationships between individuals and social institutions. Each of the major topical chapters includes an historical overview and practical suggestions for institutional change.

Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditionalist World

1 review
Robert N. Bellah

University of California Press, 1991

Honest view of Early Islamic Society
Though this book contains analysis of other civilizations , its author's insight into early islamic civilization is amazing. There are very few authors in the western world who have been able to overcome the crusade bias to depict the early Islamic society in a realistic manner. Though this is a highly specialised book in the field of sociology , it makes a good reading for an average reader ...

Tokugawa Religion

4 reviews
Robert N. Bellah

Free Press, 1985

Tokugawa religion : the cultural roots of modern Japan
Bellah begins by defining religion as "a set of symbolic forms and acts that relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence." He argues that beginning with the single cosmos of the undifferentiated primitive religious worldview in which life is a "one possibility thing," evolution in the religious sphere is toward the increasing differentiation and complexity of symbol systems. His ...

The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial

5 reviews
Robert N. Bellah

University Of Chicago Press, 1992

A thought-provoking "jeremiad"
Robert Bellah's book, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial, calls on America to renew her founding myth of a national covenant. Bellah writes his book out of a conviction that America is undergoing a time of trial, torn apart by radical individualism and capitalist greed, and in need of a new, common set of moral, religious and social values. Bellah argues that these ...

Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society (Heritage of Sociology Series)

2 reviews
Emile Durkheim

University Of Chicago Press, 1973

Great for students
Bellah has gathered Durkheim's most oft-cited writings (including Elementary Forms, Division of Labor, Suicide, and Sociological Method) and arranged them topically in this work. The book begins with Durkheim's review of French social thought, then chapters on "Sociology and Social Action, The Evolution of Morality, The Learning of Morality," and "Social Creativity." A lengthy introduction ...

Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches

1 review
Russell Jeung

Rutgers University Press, 2004

forward the panAsians!
The book relates how the body of Christ is now manefesting itself with Asian- Americans as Asian. As a white who was over the last several decades trained to be sensistive to the different types of Asian heritages, this new panAsian church is something strange to me. The book is extremely useful in detailing new trends

Imagining Japan: The Japanese Tradition and its Modern Interpretation
Robert N. Bellah

University of California Press, 2003

One of the most influential sociologists living today, Robert N. Bellah began his career as a Japan specialist, and has continued to contribute to the field over the past thirty years. Imagining Japan is a collection of some of his most important writings, including essays that consider the entire sweep of Japanese history and the character of Japanese society and religion. Combining intellectual rigor, broad scholarship, and ethical ...

Learning to Read the Signs, Reclaiming Pragmatism in Business

4 reviews
F. Byron Nahser, Robert N. Bellah

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997

Brilliantly insightful...should be required reading...
The subject of business ethics is much discussed these days. It's like the weather, though. Everyone talks about it but nobody does much of anything about it. Many people have come to suspect that the term "business ethics" is an oxymoron. but in "Learning to Read the Signs" Mr. Nahser demonstrates otherwise. He has given us a brilliantly insightful look at how beautifully pragmatism can ...

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