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Encyclopedia > Robert Bellah

Robert Neelly Bellah is a sociologist at University of California at Berkeley and author of a number of books including Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a prestigious, public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. ...


While an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a member of the Communist Party and chariman of the John Reed Club, "a recognized student organization concerned with the study of Marxism." As a graduate student in the McCarthy era, then-Dean McGeorge Bundy threatened to withdraw his fellowship if he did not provide the names of his former associates. [1] Bellah was a student of Talcott Parsons. Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... In modern usage, a Communist party is a political party which promotes Communism, a sociopolitical philosophy based on the particular interpretation of Marxism put forth by Vladimir Lenin. ... McCarthyism, named after Joseph McCarthy, was a period of intense anticommunism, also (popularly) known as the (second) Red Scare, which occurred in the United States from 1948 to about 1956 (or later), when the government of the United States was actively engaged in suppression of the Communist Party USA, its... TIME Magazine Jun. ... Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902, Colorado Springs, USA - May 8, 1979, Munich, Germany) was the best-known sociologist in the United States, and one of the best-known in the world for many years. ...


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Robert Bellah to speak on “Habits of the Heart Revisited” at Vassar College, April 2 :: Vassar College ... (215 words)
Robert Bellah to speak on “Habits of the Heart Revisited” at Vassar College, April 2
Bellah's lecture, cosponsored by the departments of religion and sociology, the Program in American Culture, and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, is free and open to the public.
Bellah is the Elliot professor of sociology emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
10.26.2006 - Of God, justice, and disunited states (2012 words)
Robert Bellah, who served on Berkeley's sociology faculty for 30 years, is "totally a child of the Enlightenment," but he locates the roots of his commitment to social justice in the Hebrew prophets and the New Testament.
Robert Bellah is a sociologist and a sermonizer, a believer in God and in reason, a Jeremiah and an apostle of hope.
Bellah, though, resists any such efforts at reductionism, whether as a scholar or as an object of scrutiny.
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