Richard J. Mouw gives a heartfelt tribute to the late Robert Bellah for today’s On the Square :
I learned much from the late Robert Bellah. His widely discussed (and widely criticized) 1967 essay on civil religion chastened me for my habit of issuing unnuanced condemnations of civil religion as such. And Habits of the Heart , written by a team of scholars led by Bellah and published in 1985, has been a continuing resource for me on a variety of subjects—especially worship.
Read the rest here .
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