Word: bellah
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...Bellah is best known for Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, which were both attempts to understand the limitations of individualism in American political culture...
Swidler credits Bellah with developing ideas "which have become part of the woodwork" of academia, such as the concept of civil religion, a term he coined in an influential 1966 paper, "Civil Religion in America...
...Bellah's writings were published long before his works became mandatory reading in debates over civic engagement...
During his college days, Bellah "spent a lot of time studying and reading," says Eli J. Sagan '48, a college friend of Bellah's who remains close to him today. "He was probably the most prepared student I ever...
Outside of the classroom, Sagan says Bellah was "very much involved with politics" as an avowed Communist and a member of the Harvard Liberal Union...