Robert N. Bellah

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1. Reinhold Niebuhr

   Author of Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, The Irony of American History, Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

2. Peter L. Berger

   Author of The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

3. H. Richard Niebuhr

   Author of Christ & Culture, The Responsible Self, The social sources of denominationalism

4. Robert N. Bellah

   Author of Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, Good Society

5. Max Weber

   Author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Ancient Judaism

6. Christopher Lasch

   Author of The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics, The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times

7. Stanley Hauerwas

   Author of Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, A Community of Character

8. Paul Tillich

   Author of Dynamics of Faith, Theology of Culture (Galaxy Books), Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality

9. James Davison Hunter

   Author of Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation

10. Walter Brueggemann

    Author of The Prophetic Imagination, The Land: Place As Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith, Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile

11. Allan Bloom

    Author of The Closing of the American Mind

12. Parker J. Palmer

    Author of To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey, The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring, Company of Strangers: Christians & the Renewal of America's Public Life (Company of Strangers Ppr)

13. Stephen L. Carter

    Author of The Culture of Disbelief

14. Émile Durkheim

    Author of Elementary Forms of Religious Life

15. James W. Fowler

    Author of Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development

16. Martin Buber

    Author of I And Thou

17. Alasdair MacIntyre

    Author of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Second Edition

18. David Riesman

    Author of The Lonely Crowd

19. Erving Goffman

    Author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Relations in Public

20. Martin E. Marty

    Author of Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America, Righteous empire; the Protestant experience in America, A Nation of Behavers