Galen Watts on Robert Bellah & the Spiritual Turn

Integral Facticity # 13

Galen Watts is currently a guest Professor with Special Appointment and Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, based at KU Leuven. His research interests include religion, culture, and politics, and how they intersect in contemporary society. He is also interested in the sources of belonging, solidarity, and meaning in modernity, and how these influence degrees of well-being and justice in liberal democracies.

References and further reading:

1. Galen Watts (galenwatts.com)
2. Galen Watts — Theory, Culture and Religion (kuleuven.be)
3. The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity — Galen Watts (Book)
4. Social Science as Public Philosophy Revived | Civic Sociology | University of California Press (ucpress.edu) — Galen Watts (Article)
5. Recovering enchantment: addiction, spirituality, and Charles Taylor’s malaise of modernity: Journal of Contemporary Religion: Vol 34, No 1 — Galen Watts (Article)
6. Will Kymlicka (willkymlicka.ca)
7. Liberalism, Community, and Culture — Will Kymlicka (Book)
8. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights— Will Kymlicka (Book)
9. Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction — Will Kymlicka (Book)
10. Robert N. Bellah (robertbellah.com)
11. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life — Robert Bellah (Book)
12. Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age — Robert N. Bellah (Book)
13. A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah — Matteo Bortolini (Book)
14. How the Engaged Left Can Argue With The Right — Galen Watts & Matt McManus (Article)
15. The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture & Reactionary Politics— Matthew McManus (Book)
16. Why Liberalism Failed — Patrick Deneen (Book)
17. The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences — Jason Ananda Josephson Storm (Book)
18. Metamodernism: The Future of Theory — Jason Ananda Josephson Storm (Book)
19. Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie — Craig Martin (Book)
20. Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion — Jeremy Carrette, Richard King (Book)
21. Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous — Ernest Kurtz (Book)
22. Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America — William White (Book)
23. William White Papers | Chestnut Health Systems