Throughout a long and illustrious career, the sociologist Robert N. Bellah has been helping Americans make sense of their world. While Bellah’s scholarly work has focused on specialized understandings of the role of religion in society, Commonweal readers will recognize him for works that have reached a broad audience concerned about the direction of American society. Indeed, (...)
October 21, 2011
Books
From the Beginning
Religion in Human EvolutionFrom the Paleolithic to the Axial AgeRobert N. BellahBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, $39.95, 784 pp.
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