Word: bellah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movements and causes. In recent years moral renewal has occurred more frequently within these colonies and tribes than in their federation, the national community. Voluntary associations, some derived from the churches' "errand of mercy," and some growing out of other roots, have resources. For some, what Robert N. Bellah calls "civil religion," wherein national life is a kind of matrix and repository of values, offers a promise that surpasses its dangers of self-idolization by bringing citizens into a zone of common concern for transcendent justice. How do we improve ourselves? To what do we belong? For what...
Faculty is Anti-Bellah...
Members of the faculty voted against hiring Bellah, but Kaysen ignored the vote, saying the faculty did not have jurisdiction over the decision because Bellah was to be a member of a new department...
Kaysen then took the issue to the board of trustees who approved both the creation of the department and the hiring of Bellah...
...Bellah ultimately turned down the appointment...