Argues that Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shintoism are more responsible for Japan's current economic success than contact with the West, and discusses Japanese religion and culture.

Tokugawa Religion

Business & Money

Bellah, Robert N.

Economics

Free Press

Represents an inquiry into American culture, character, and social institutions and a survey of the American experience

Individualism and Commitment in American Life: Readings on the Themes of Habits of the Heart

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Harpercollins College Div

This Second Edition represents Bellah's summation of his views on civil religion in America. In his 1967 classic essay "Civil Rights in America," Bellah argued that the religious dimensions of American society—as distinct from its churches—has its own integrity and required "the same care in understanding that any religion." This edition includes his 1978 article "Religion and the Legitimation of the American Republic," and a new Preface.

The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial

History

World

University of Chicago Press

Challenging Modernity

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Columbia University Press

Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sickness—a quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditions—has contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of social organization, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanize the market and the administrative state. In their new Introduction the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

Sullivan, William M.

Tipton, Steven M.

Madsen, Richard

Swidler, Ann

University of California Press

Deepening and developing the seminal vision of Habits of the Heart (California, 1985), this volume presents original essays by leading thinkers in the social sciences, philosophy, and religion.

Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, and Self

Swidler

Philosophy

Deepening and developing the seminal vision of Habits of the Heart (California, 1985), this volume presents original essays by leading thinkers in the social sciences, philosophy, and religion.

One of the most influential sociologists living today, Robert N. Bellah began his career as a Japan specialist, and has continued to contribute to the field over the past thirty years. Imagining Japan is a collection of some of his most important writings, including essays that consider the entire sweep of Japanese history and the character of Japanese society and religion. Combining intellectual rigor, broad scholarship, and ethical commitment, this book also features a new and extensive introduction that brings together intellectual and institutional dimensions of Japanese history.

Imagining Japan: The Japanese Tradition and its Modern Interpretation

Bellah, Robert

Asia

First published in 1985, Habits of the Heart continues to be one of the most discussed interpretations of modern American society, a quest for a democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditions. In a new preface the authors relate the arguments of the book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.

Habits of the Heart, With a New Preface: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

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