The Graduate Theological Union lost a great friend and colleague on July 31 with the death of Robert N. Bellah (1927-2013), who was the Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley.
Although his graduate studies focused on Japanese religions, Professor Bellah was best known for his scholarship on the religious aspects of American culture. Books such as Beyond Belief (1970) and The Broken Covenant (1975), along with co-authored volumes Habits of the Heart (1985), and The Good Society (1991), have shaped not...