Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Robert N. Bellah
Born: February 23, 1927
Died: July 30, 2013 (aged 86)
Bio: Robert Neelly Bellah was an American sociologist, and the Elliott Professor of Sociology, as well as Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was internationally known for his work related to the sociology of religion.
Known for:
- Religion in Human Evolution (2011)
- The Robert Bellah Reader (2006)