Robert Neelly Bellah (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Neelly Bellah, born February 23, 1927, in Altus, Oklahoma, United States, is an American sociologist, now the Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Bellah is best known for his work related to "American civil religion" (a term he used in a 1967 article). He is also known for his 1985 book Habits of the Heart, how religion contributes to and detracts from America's common good; and as a sociologist who studies religious and moral issues and their connection to society. Bellah received a B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1950, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1955. He was a student of Talcott Parsons, sociologist at Harvard and he and Parsons remained intellectual friends until Parson's death in 1979.