The New Religious Consciousness

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University of California Press, Jan 1, 1976 - Religion - 391 pages
Jr. -- The church of Satan / Randall H. Alfred -- Church student ministries and the new consciousness / Barbara Hargrove -- Three congregations / James Wolfe -- Jewish identity and the counterculture / Thomas Piazza -- The new religions in social context / Robert Wuthnow -- Religious change in nineteenth-century America / Linda K. Pritchard -- New religious consciousness and the crisis in modernity / Robert N. Bellah -- Consciousness among contemporary youth : an interpretation / Charles Y. Glock.
 

Contents

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IV
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93
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XIX
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Robert N. Bellah, an American sociologist, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955 and teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. He is best known for his work on community and religion. Although he has written on religions in nonwestern cultures, he has focused much of his research on the notion of civil religion in the West. To Bellah, American society confronts a moral dilemma whereby communalism competes with individualism for domination. His most important book, Habits of the Heart (1985), considers the American character and the decline of community. Bellah holds that the radical split between knowledge and commitment is untenable and can result only in a stunted personal and intellectual growth. He argues for a social science guided by communal values.

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