However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
Robert Neelly Bellah Quotes
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
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| Birth: | 23rd February, 1927 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Sociologist |
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Robert Neelly Bellah is an American sociologist, now the Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Bellah is best known for his work related to American civil religion. Bellah's magnum opus, Religion In Human Evolution, traces the biological and cultural origins of religion and the interplay between the two.
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