Varieties of Civil Religion

Bellah, Robert N.: - Robert N. Bellah (1927-2013) was Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. He was educated at Harvard University, receiving the BA in 1950 and the PhD in 1955. His publications includeThe Broken Covenant, The Robert Bellah Reader, and most recently Religion in Human Evolution (2011). In 1985 he was coauthor of Habits of the Heart. Phillip E. Hammond (1931-2009) was Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. A graduate of Willamette and Columbia Universities, Dr. Hammond held positions at Yale and the Universities of Wisconsin and Arizona. He was the author or editor of Sociologists at Work, The Campus Clergyman, Religion in Social Context, The School Prayer Decisions: From Court Policy to Local Practice, The Structure of Human Society, The Role of Ideology in Church Participation, and numerous articles.