Legacy Events

Presider: Anna Sun is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at Duke University. List of Panelists: Richard Madsen is distinguished research professor and director of the UC-Fudan Center for Research on Contemporary China at the University of California, San Diego. Ann Swidler is a professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, […]

Theme: A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah (Princeton University Press, 2021): A Conversation with Author, Matteo Bortolini Monday, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM (In Person)  Embassy Suites-Crystal B (Third Level)  Harlan Stelmach, Dominican University of California, Presiding The recent publication of Bellah’s biography provides the AAR with a window into the scientific study […]

This virtual webinar featured a 40th anniversary retrospective of the classic book, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, with its four living authors—Richard Madsen, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven Tipton. The authors were interviewed by Galen Watts, Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo and Associator Director at the Institute […]

Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict November 13, 2025 What is the relationship between being a person of faith and a faithful American? What are the values and principles that shape American culture, and how do religious traditions reinforce or challenge them? At a time when democracy is under severe […]

November 8, 2024 The gathering in the fall of 2024 at the Graduate Theological Union  (GTU) was a crucial event in the Bellah Legacy Group’s deliberations with the Graduate Theological Union to co-host the Robert Bellah Lectureship in “Religion and Public Life.” It demonstrated the long history of Bellah with the GTU and the significant […]

Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington

September 16 & 17, 2026 More information: https://dornsife.usc.edu/iacs/participation-dignity-elections/