Robert Neelly Bellah
Robert Neelly Bellah
Robert Neelly Bellahwas an American sociologist, and the Elliott Professor of Sociology, as well as Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was internationally known for his work related to the sociology of religion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth23 February 1927
CountryUnited States of America
who-we-are faces sides
We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning...
narrative evolution scientist
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.
fate israel views
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering of the former and the decline of the latter. We may wonder that our ancestors over-looked the darker days of those earlier nations. They did not. They hoped to construct a republic on principles to sound that if we should decline in piety and public virtue we would meet the inexorable fate of nations, which are as but dust in the hands of God.