Matteo Bortolini’s The Life of Robert Bellah: A Roundtable

Editor: 
Rubén Flores, University College, Dublin, Ireland

Robert Bellah is without a doubt one of the giants of 20th and early 21st century social research. This roundtable brings together a wonderful array of scholars from multiple disciplinary backgrounds in order to discuss a book devoted to his life and work, Matteo Bortolini’s A Joyfully Serious Man (Princeton University Press, 2021). It is our hope that this discussion will encourage readers to further explore and engage with Bellah’s rich oeuvre.

 

CONTENTS:

Robert Bellah’s Legacy in Time of Trial
Chad Alan Goldberg

Comments on Matteo Bortolini’s A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
Joan W. Scott

Robert Bellah: A Cold War Sociologist?
Arvind Rajagopal

Robert Bellah as Modernization Theorist: Comments on Matteo Bortolini’s A Joyfully Serious Man
Amy Borovoy

In Search of a Schema in a Joyfully Serious Life: Robert Bellah, the Cold War, Psychoanalysis, and Intimate Experimentations A Joyfully Serious Man
Matteo Bortolini