Review Essay
Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v8i1.111Keywords:
religion, evolution, sociologyAbstract
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Albertz, Rainer. 1992. A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period: From the Beginnings to the End of the Exile (London: SCM Press).
Bellah, Robert N. 1964. ‘Religious Evolution’, American Sociological Review 29.3: 358-74. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2091480.
———. 2005. ‘What Is Axial about the Axial Age?’, European Journal of Sociology 46.1: 69-87.
———. 2011. Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674063099.
Bellah, Robert N. et al. 1985. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (New York: Harper & Row).
Bellah, Robert N., and Steven M. Tipton. 2006. The Robert Bellah Reader (Durham: Duke University Press).
Brandt, Richard B. 1954. Hopi Ethics: A Theoretical Analysis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Chaves, Mark. 2004. Congregations in America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Dever, William G. 2001. What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans).
Donald, Merlin. 1993. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
Durkheim, Emile. 1973 [1925]. Moral Education: A Study in the Theory and Application of the Sociology of Education (New York: Free Press).
———. 1995 [1912]. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (trans. Karen Field; New York: Free Press).
Eisenstadt, S.N. 1984. ‘Heterodoxies and Dynamics of Civilizations’, American Philosophical Society 128.2: 104-13.
Eisenstadt, S.N. (ed.). 1986. The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations (Albany: State University of New York Press).
Elkana, Yehuda. 1986. ‘The Emergence of Second-Order Thinking in Classical Greece’, in Eisenstadt 1986: 40-64.
Farella, John. 1984. The Main Stalk: A Synthesis of Navajo Philosophy (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).
Geertz, Clifford. 1973. ‘Religion as a Cultural System’, in The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books): 87-125.
Goody, Jack. 1986. The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621598.
Hayes, John H., and J. Maxwell Miller (eds.). 1977. Israelite and Judean History (Philadelphia: Westminster Press).
James, William. 1903. The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Longmans, Green).
Jaspers, Karl. 1953. On the Origin and Goal of History (London: Routledge).
Kohlberg, Lawrence. 1983. Moral Stages (Basel: Karger).
Ladd, John. 1957. The Structure of a Moral Code: A Philosophical Analysis of Ethical Discourse Applied to the Ethics of the Navaho Indians (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Lerro, Bruce. 2000. From Earth Spirits to Sky Gods: The Socioecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism, and Hyperabstract Reasoning from the Stone Age to the Axial Iron Age (Lanham: Lexington Books).
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1979. Myth and Meaning (New York: Schocken Books).
Loewe, Michael, and Edward Shaughnessy (eds.). 1999. The Cambridge History of Ancient China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521470308.
Lowie, Robert. 1948. Primitive Religion (New York: Liveright, 2nd edn).
Machinist, Peter. 1986. ‘On Self-Consciousness in Mesopotamia’, in Eisenstadt 1986: 183-202.
Mazar, Amihai. 1992. Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000–586 B.C.E. (New York: Doubleday Anchor).
Midgeley, Mary. 1996. ‘Sustainability and Moral Pluralism’, Ethics and the Environment 1: 41-54.
Myers, F.R. 2002. Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art (Durham, NC: Duke University Press).
Oppenheim, A. Leo. 1975. ‘The Position of the Intellectual in Mesopotamian Society’, Daedalus 104.2: 37-45.
Parsons, Talcott. 1966. Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice–Hall).
Radin, Paul. 1957a. Primitive Man as Philosopher (New York: Dover, rev. edn).
———. 1957b. Primitive Religion (New York: Dover, rev. edn).
Rappaport, Roy A. 1999. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511814686.
Roetz, Heiner. 1993. Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age (Albany: SUNY Press).
Rose, D.B. 2000. Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in Australian Aboriginal Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Singer, Peter. 1981. The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux).
Stark, Rodney. 2008. What Americans Really Believe (Waco: Baylor University Press).
Steward, Julian. 1972 [1955]. Theory of Culture Change (Champaign: University of Illinois Press).
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava (ed.). 2002. Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Tucker, Mary Evelyn, and John Berthrong (eds.). 1998. Confucianism and Ecology: the Interrelation of Heaven, Earth and Humans (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Weber, Max. 1948. ‘Science as a Vocation’, in Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds.), From Max Weber (London: Routledge, Kegan Paul): 129-58.
Wilson, J.A.P. 2009. ‘The Life of the Saint and the Animal: Asian Religious Influence in the Medieval Christian West’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 3: 169-94.
Albertz, Rainer. 1992. A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period: From the Beginnings to the End of the Exile (London: SCM Press).
Bellah, Robert N. 1964. ‘Religious Evolution’, American Sociological Review 29.3: 358-74. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2091480.
———. 2005. ‘What Is Axial about the Axial Age?’, European Journal of Sociology 46.1: 69-87.
———. 2011. Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674063099.
Bellah, Robert N. et al. 1985. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (New York: Harper & Row).
Bellah, Robert N., and Steven M. Tipton. 2006. The Robert Bellah Reader (Durham: Duke University Press).
Brandt, Richard B. 1954. Hopi Ethics: A Theoretical Analysis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Chaves, Mark. 2004. Congregations in America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Dever, William G. 2001. What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans).
Donald, Merlin. 1993. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
Durkheim, Emile. 1973 [1925]. Moral Education: A Study in the Theory and Application of the Sociology of Education (New York: Free Press).
———. 1995 [1912]. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (trans. Karen Field; New York: Free Press).
Eisenstadt, S.N. 1984. ‘Heterodoxies and Dynamics of Civilizations’, American Philosophical Society 128.2: 104-13.
Eisenstadt, S.N. (ed.). 1986. The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations (Albany: State University of New York Press).
Elkana, Yehuda. 1986. ‘The Emergence of Second-Order Thinking in Classical Greece’, in Eisenstadt 1986: 40-64.
Farella, John. 1984. The Main Stalk: A Synthesis of Navajo Philosophy (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).
Geertz, Clifford. 1973. ‘Religion as a Cultural System’, in The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books): 87-125.
Goody, Jack. 1986. The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621598.
Hayes, John H., and J. Maxwell Miller (eds.). 1977. Israelite and Judean History (Philadelphia: Westminster Press).
James, William. 1903. The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Longmans, Green).
Jaspers, Karl. 1953. On the Origin and Goal of History (London: Routledge).
Kohlberg, Lawrence. 1983. Moral Stages (Basel: Karger).
Ladd, John. 1957. The Structure of a Moral Code: A Philosophical Analysis of Ethical Discourse Applied to the Ethics of the Navaho Indians (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Lerro, Bruce. 2000. From Earth Spirits to Sky Gods: The Socioecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism, and Hyperabstract Reasoning from the Stone Age to the Axial Iron Age (Lanham: Lexington Books).
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1979. Myth and Meaning (New York: Schocken Books).
Loewe, Michael, and Edward Shaughnessy (eds.). 1999. The Cambridge History of Ancient China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521470308.
Lowie, Robert. 1948. Primitive Religion (New York: Liveright, 2nd edn).
Machinist, Peter. 1986. ‘On Self-Consciousness in Mesopotamia’, in Eisenstadt 1986: 183-202.
Mazar, Amihai. 1992. Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000–586 B.C.E. (New York: Doubleday Anchor).
Midgeley, Mary. 1996. ‘Sustainability and Moral Pluralism’, Ethics and the Environment 1: 41-54.
Myers, F.R. 2002. Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art (Durham, NC: Duke University Press).
Oppenheim, A. Leo. 1975. ‘The Position of the Intellectual in Mesopotamian Society’, Daedalus 104.2: 37-45.
Parsons, Talcott. 1966. Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice–Hall).
Radin, Paul. 1957a. Primitive Man as Philosopher (New York: Dover, rev. edn).
———. 1957b. Primitive Religion (New York: Dover, rev. edn).
Rappaport, Roy A. 1999. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511814686.
Roetz, Heiner. 1993. Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age (Albany: SUNY Press).
Rose, D.B. 2000. Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in Australian Aboriginal Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Singer, Peter. 1981. The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux).
Stark, Rodney. 2008. What Americans Really Believe (Waco: Baylor University Press).
Steward, Julian. 1972 [1955]. Theory of Culture Change (Champaign: University of Illinois Press).
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava (ed.). 2002. Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Tucker, Mary Evelyn, and John Berthrong (eds.). 1998. Confucianism and Ecology: the Interrelation of Heaven, Earth and Humans (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Weber, Max. 1948. ‘Science as a Vocation’, in Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds.), From Max Weber (London: Routledge, Kegan Paul): 129-58.
Wilson, J.A.P. 2009. ‘The Life of the Saint and the Animal: Asian Religious Influence in the Medieval Christian West’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 3: 169-94.
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2014-06-03
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Anderson, E. N., & Abrutyn, S. (2014). Review Essay: Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 8(1), 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v8i1.111
