Robert Neelly Bellah Quotes

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

Robert Neelly Bellah

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.

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

Tags: home, children, parents, child

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Robert Neelly Bellah (February 23, 1927 – July 30, 2013) was an American sociologist and the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was internationally known for his work related to the sociology of religion.