Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditionalist World
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Beyond Belief collects fifteen celebrated, broadly ranging essays in which Robert Bellah interprets the interplay of religion and society in concrete contexts from Japan to the Middle East to the United States. First published in 1970, Beyond Belief is a classic in the field of sociology of religion.
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The original orientation of Buddhist soteriology toward absolute transcendence was never completely lost in Japan.
“Nevertheless, the original orientation of Buddhist soteriology toward absolute transcendence was never completely lost in Japan or, as Robert N. Bellah claimed, 'drowned out by the ground bass … of the Japanese tradition of thisworldly affirmativeness.'”
From Distinctions and Differentiations between Medicine and Religion (2020) · cites this paper as Bellah 1991, 119
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- Authors
- Bellah, R. N.
- Venue
- University of California Press eBooks
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 1991-06-11
- OpenAlex
- W4252125999
- Cited by
- 179
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.14
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- University of California Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Social Sciences › Law › Religious Freedom and Discrimination
- Keywords
- religion and society, sociology of religion, Robert Bellah, comparative religion, Japanese religion, American religion
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