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Kaysen supported the nomination of Robert N. Bellah '48, professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, to the Institute's Social Science program. Bellah taught at Harvard from...
...located in Princeton, New Jersey, has a permanent faculty of 26 members who do research and writing in their special fields. Several members from the Schools of Historical Studies and Natural Sciences objected to Bellah's nomination because they said his work was inferior to the Institute's standards...
...faculty voted twice against Bellah's nomination, and urged Kaysen not to forward his name to the Institute's trustees. Kaysen rejected their recommendation, and the position was offered to Bellah on February 14. His appointment begins on July...
Other winners of 1971 Harbison awards include Robert N. Bellah '48. University of California: Joseph M. Duffy, Notre Dame: Clifton M. Grubbs. University of Texas: and George S. Hammond, California Tech, all of whom attended Harvard graduate schools...
Part of the problem, explained Sociologist Bellah, derives from the traditional idea of belief. From the days of the church fathers, Christianity has tended to equate belief with intellectual assent to a given body of dogma. In Bellah's view, young people today see it rather as a commitment, part of a "quest for personal authenticity" that can take them into Black Power or the Peace Corps, hippiedom or Zen, drugs or sex. Some of these convictions hardly qualify as "beliefs" by any standard, and most of them are clearly not oriented toward God at all. Nonetheless, they...