Robert Bellah
Marriage trends, political views undermining the notion of a unified American Jewish identity
By Jonathan D. Sarna — May 25, 2021
(The Conversation) — The American Jewish community is changing as it becomes increasingly diverse and politically polarized.
How a courtroom ritual of forgiveness absolves white America
By J. Kameron Carter — October 4, 2019
(RNS) — American religion needs black (and native) forgiveness in order to keep the national fantasy of civil society, which is antiblack, alive, writes J. Kameron Carter.
President Trump, this is no time for prayer
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 2, 2017
(RNS) — Yes, it happened again. No more 'thoughts and prayers.' This time, please: action.
How Trump is reshaping American civil religion and what we can do about it
By Benjamin P. Marcus — July 10, 2017
(RNS) Civil religion can inspire both exclusive ethno-nationalism and inclusive idealism and hospitality.
How Robert Bellah helped Martin Luther King oppose the Vietnam War
By Mark Silk — April 4, 2017
He (must have) read 'Civil Religion in America.'
Donald Trump and the end of the American civil religion
By Mark Silk — November 11, 2016
(RNS) If there's ever been a president less capable of invoking God, I don't know who it was.
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