A Joyfully Serious Man : : The Life of Robert Bellah /

A Joyfully Serious Man : : The Life of Robert Bellah / / Matteo Bortolini.

A major new biography of the brilliant yet tormented intellectual who transformed the social sciencesRobert Bellah (1927–2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century. Trained as a sociologist, he crossed disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of a greater comprehensio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Bortolini, Matteo,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (528 p.) :; 16 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface: Writing Bob Bellah
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 From Father to Son: Oklahoma to California, 1916–1944
  • 2 A Writer and a Teacher: United States East Coast, 1945–1950
  • 3 Enter Talcott Parsons: Cambridge, MA, 1950–1953
  • 4 Expectations versus Reality: From Cambridge to Montreal, and Back, 1954–1957
  • 5 Becoming an American: From Cambridge to Tokyo, and Back, 1957–1961
  • 6 Time to Leave: Cambridge, 1961–1967
  • 7 “Stand Back and See It All”: Berkeley, 1967–1968
  • 8 “To Put It Bluntly, Religion Is True”: Rome and Cambridge, 1968–1969
  • 9 Beyond Borders: Berkeley, 1969–1971
  • 10 Twilight of the God: From Berkeley to Princeton, and Back, 1970–1973
  • 11 Breaking Covenants: Berkeley, 1973–1976
  • 12 Ashes Alone: United States of America, 1969–1976
  • 13 “We Create Our Planets on the Table” berkeley, 1976–1978
  • 14 Articulating the Real: Berkeley, 1978–1979
  • 15 On the Edge of the Eighties: Berkeley, 1979–1983
  • 16 The Sociologist’s Revenge: United States of America, 1978–1985
  • 17 Hitting the Big Time: United States of America, 1985–1991
  • 18 Looking for the Good Society: United States of America, 1991–1992
  • 19 Time to Leave Again: United States of America, 1993–2000
  • 20 Between Religion and Evolution: North America, 1955–2004
  • 21 “This Big House on the Hill”: Berkeley, 2005–2010
  • 22 Nothing Is Ever Lost: From Berkeley to the World, 2011–2013
  • Epilogue: The Joy of a Serious Life
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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