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  • Hence you do not need a dogmatic "practice" such as Bellah supposes.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • Much less highfalutin but more evocative was the emergence of “Sheilaism,” named after a woman quoted by Robert Bellah and his colleagues in their bestseller Habits of the Heart:

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Robert N. Bellah, “Civil Religion in America,” Daedalus 96, no.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • It was so, in part, because in the era of the Cold War against “atheistic communism,” religion represented patriotism, a central, unifying theme of national purpose, or what sociologist Robert Bellah would later term “civil religion.”

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • It seems to me that both items are part of the same phenomenon: the erosion of what sociologist Robert Bellah once dubbed "American Civil Religion."

    David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms David Van Biema 2012

  • It seems to me that both items are part of the same phenomenon: the erosion of what sociologist Robert Bellah once dubbed "American Civil Religion."

    David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms David Van Biema 2012

  • Kiddoo D, Bellah RD, Carr MC: Cross-fused ectopic multicystic dysplastic kidney with associated hydrocele.

    Publications of the Urology Division 2010

  • It seems to me that both items are part of the same phenomenon: the erosion of what sociologist Robert Bellah once dubbed "American Civil Religion."

    David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms David Van Biema 2012

  • Robert Bellah explained years ago that the primary use of God language in the public square is to rely on a morality beyond human invention.

    Bruce Ledewitz: Well, Don't We Liberals Hate the Public God? Bruce Ledewitz 2011

  • Robert Bellah explained years ago that the primary use of God language in the public square is to rely on a morality beyond human invention.

    Bruce Ledewitz: Well, Don't We Liberals Hate the Public God? Bruce Ledewitz 2011

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