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University of California Press

Beyond Belief

Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditionalist World
by Robert N. Bellah (Author)
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Publication Date: Jun 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
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Rights: World
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780520911123
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About the Book

Beyond Belief collects fifteen celebrated, broadly ranging essays in which Robert Bellah interprets the interplay of religion and society in concrete contexts from Japan to the Middle East to the United States. First published in 1970, Beyond Belief is a classic in the field of sociology of religion.

About the Author

Robert N. Bellah is Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and co-author of Habits of the Heart (California, 1985).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction

PART ONE  THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
1 The Sociology of Religion
2 Religious Evolution

PART TWO  RELIGION IN THE MODERNIZATION PROCESS GENERAL
3 Reflections on the Protestant Ethic Analogy in Asia
4 Meaning and Modernization
CHINA
5 Father and Son in Christianity and Confucianism
JAPAN
6 The Religious Situation in the Far East
7 Values and Social Change in Modern Japan
ISLAM
8 Islamic Tradition and the Problems of Modernization
UNITED STATES
9 Civil Religion in America

PART THREE  RELIGION IN MODERN SOCIETY
10 Review of Bishop Robinson's Honest to God
11 Transcendence in Contemporary Piety
12 The Dynamics of Worship
13 Religion and Belief
14 Review of Norman 0. Brown's Lo11e' s Botl7
15 Between Religion and Social Science

Appendix: The Systematic Study of Religion
Bibliography of Robert N. Bellah
Index