The Anthem Companion to Robert N. Bellah
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The Anthem Companion to Robert N. Bellah
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Matteo Bortolini
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CONTENTS
Matteo Bortolini
Amy Borovoy
Steven M. Tipton
John D. Boy and John Torpey
Philip Gorski
Jeffrey Guhin
Eric R. Lybeck
Peter Brickey LeQuire
Andrew E. Barshay
Andrew E. Barshay teaches modern Japanese history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of three books: State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis (1988); The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions (2004); and most recently, The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 19451956 (2013).
Amy Borovoy is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University; her field is cultural anthropology. Her work focuses on social democracy in modern Japan. She is the author of The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependence, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan (2005). Her current manuscript, Japan in American Social Thought, explores Japan studies as terrain for reflection on the good society in the postwar American social sciences, and the struggle to challenge Euro-centrism in the context of American hegemony.
Matteo Bortolini is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Padova, Italy. His research focuses on intellectuals and ideas, religion and the comparative historical sociology of the social sciences. He is writing a biography of Robert N. Bellah.
John D. Boy is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Leiden University. Previously he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and a visiting research fellow at Utrecht Universitys Center for the Humanities. He received his Ph.D. in sociology with a certificate in womens studies from the City University of New York. A sociologist with broad interests in religion, urban space and digital networks, his recent work seeks to understand how social media impinge on urban life and hierarchies of social status.
Philip Gorski is Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University. He writes on religion and politics in comparative and historical perspective. His most recent book is American Covenant (2017).
Jeffrey Guhin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA, and his research interests include education, culture, religion and theory. His first book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, is tentatively titled Let There Be No Compulsion: Muslim and Christian Schools in America, and it is a comparison of two Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian high schools. His next book, for which he has completed fieldwork, is an ethnographic comparison of morality and citizenship in three urban public school districts. Finally, he has another project in formation that will compare moral correction in Muslim, Catholic and secular 4th grade classrooms in seven global cities.
Peter Brickey LeQuire is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Samford University and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and is a former Visiting Scholar of Wolfson College, Cambridge. His scholarship has appeared in the journals such as Anamnesis, Clio, Economic Affairs, The European Journal of Sociology, Kierkegaard Research, Politics and Religion and The Review of Politics. He is a contributor to The Point, a magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining.
Eric R. Lybeck is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Education at the University of Manchester. Working in the emerging field of Critical University Studies, his work draws on processual and civic approaches to social knowledge and practices to make new connections between the disciplines of sociology and education. His doctoral research at Cambridge explored the history of the social and legal sciences during the late nineteenth-century transfer of university models from Germany to America. He is currently editor-in-chief of the journal Civic Sociology, which is published by University of California Press.
Steven M. Tipton is Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus at Emory University and author of Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life (2007) and The Life to Come: Re-Creating Retirement (2018). He is also the coauthor of
