Matteo Bortolini
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matteo Bortolini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matteo |
| FAMILY NAME | Bortolini |
| SIGNATURE | BORTOLINI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2532-9334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Geertz, Clifford (2022) Sūq: Geertz on the Market, edited and introduced by Lawrence Rosen
Book review of Clifford (2022) Sūq: Geertz on the Market, edited and introduced by Lawrence Rosen
The first experiment in a transnational dialog”: Il Caso Italiano and the 1970s crisis of the social sciences
The article retraces the history of a 1974 volume edited by Stephen R. Graubard and Fabio Luca Cavazza, Il caso italiano. The book was conceived as an attempt to “put Italy back on the map” of international social and political studies and envisage ways and means of preventing “the next economic and political crisis” of a very unstable country. The project hinged on activating transnational scholarly networks connected to then-waning modernizatio…
When the political tail wags the religious dog, and vice versa. Religion, hegemony, and democracy in contemporary North America
L'origine dei valori / Stratificazioni del "secolare"
La teoria che non c'era. Secolarizzazione, religione e campi intellettuali
This essay proposes a ‘heretical’ reading of the secularization debate from the postwar period to the early 2000s. The proposed thesis depends on two theoretical assump- tions: the inherent pluralism of intellectual fields as spaces of positioning, which makes it difficult to identify trends and hegemonies; and the difference between paradigms, theories and doxa, understood as interpretive frames that differ in systematization and precision. Far …
‘A twenty-four hour job’. Hildred and Clifford Geertz’s first foray into the field and the scholarly persona of the ethnographer
The paper details how, during the ’Modjokuto Project’ of 1952– 1954, Hildred and Clifford Geertz embodied in their decisions and actions the ‘Malinowskian palimpsest’ of the lonely ethnographer, thus creating a series of oppositions between their individualistic understanding of the ethnographer and the needs of teamwork in the field. Apart from the historical record, this reconstruction aims at focusing on several questions in the history of cul…
Writing, Reading, and Interpreting a Rorschach Text: An Attempt at Fourth-Order Observation and Reflexivity
A rejoinder to the papers on A Joyfully Serious Man. The Life of Robert Bellah ( AJSM ) written by Andrew Abbott, Federico Brandmayr, Charles Camic, Andrea Cossu, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Laura Ford, Harlan Stelmach, and Rhys Williams. Conceived as an exercise in self-reflection, the paper addresses five wide areas: specific critiques of AJSM ; an assessment of the relationship between AJSM and the research project whence it came; the connections betw…
A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
The brilliant but turbulent life of a public intellectual who transformed the social sciences Robert Bellah (1927–2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century. Trained as a sociologist, he crossed disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of a greater comprehension of religion as both a cultural phenomenon and a way to fathom the depths of the human condition. A Joyfully Serious Man is the definitive biography of this…
Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
The Grudging Modernizer: A Trip to the Middle East and Cold War Social Science
Axial Age
Parsons, Talcott
Acquaviva, Sabino
The return of the repressed. On Robert N. Bellah, Norman O. Brown, and religion in human evolution
As much as Robert Bellah’s final work, Religion in Human Evolution , has been studied and dissected, no critic underlined the importance of psychoanalysis for its main argument and its theoretical framework. The paper shows the influence exerted by a controversial interpreter of Freud, Norman O. Brown, on Bellah’s ideas, intellectual profile, and writing style in the late‐1960s and early 1970s. While in search for a new intellectual voice, Bellah…
Civil Religion
Civil religion” is an expression used to point to a diverse set of phenomena, interpretations, and normative theories regarding the relationship between religion, politics, and civic morals. The birth of the idea can be traced to the French philosopher Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract (1762), but modern usage began in 1967 with Robert N. Bellah's essay “Civil Religion in America.” Since then, the fitness and the depth of the idea for r…
In the field but not of the field: Clifford Geertz, Robert Bellah, and the practices of interdisciplinarity
The intellectual trajectories of social scientists Robert N. Bellah and Clifford Geertz are compared as a case study in the production of successful interdisciplinary work. Geertz and Bellah started from a similar position, in terms of scholarly habits, network centrality, and symbolic capital. However, while Geertz became an interdisciplinary star and left his mark in disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, and cultural studies, Bellah's i…
The Anthem Companion to Robert N. Bellah
Raccolta di saggi su Robert N. Bellah da me curata, nell'ambito di una collana su sociologi celebri
Bellah, Robert Neelly (1927–2013)
Robert N. Bellah (1927–2013) was a US sociologist, theologian, educator, and public intellectual. A student of Talcott Parsons at the Harvard Department of Social Relations, Bellah first became well known in the late 1950s as an expert on Japanese culture and religion. In the 1960s he published “Civil Religion in America,” a controversial interpretation of the relationship between religion and politics in the United States which sparked a broad m…
B ellah, R obert (1927–2013)
This entry presents a summary of the life and work of the US sociologist, public intellectual, and educator Robert N. Bellah (1927–2013), globally known for his work on Japanese culture and religion, US civil religion, the cultures of individualism, and the evolution of religion
Italian Sociology,1945–2010: An Intellectual and Institutional Profile
This book provides a comprehensive profile of the development of sociology in Italy from the post-war period to the present day. The first English-language account of the history of Italian sociology
Italian Sociology,1945–2010: An Intellectual and Institutional Profile
This book provides a comprehensive profile of the development of sociology in Italy from the post-war period to the present day. The first English-language account of the history of Italian sociology, it focuses on the process of institutionalization of the discipline within the Italian university system and its changing relationships with extra-academic actors and institutions: political parties, unions, the Catholic Church, political and social…
Found in Translation: Habermas and Anthropotechnics
In his recent work on postsecular societies Jürgen Habermas has stressed the need for a dialogue between religious and nonreligious citizens aimed at strengthening social integration and rejuvenating the moral bases of modern political and juridical institutions. This dialogue should focus on the translation of religious traditions into rational, secular forms. In his more recent work on the social function of rituals, however, he rejected the Du…
Bellah, Robert N (1927–2013)
Communitarians
The trap of intellectual success: Robert N. Bellah, the American civil religion debate, and the sociology of knowledge
The trap of intellectual success: Robert N. Bellah, the American civil religion debate, and the sociology of knowledge
In the field but not of the field: Clifford Geertz, Robert Bellah, and the practices of interdisciplinarity
The intellectual trajectories of social scientists Robert N. Bellah and Clifford Geertz are compared as a case study in the production of successful interdisciplinary work. Geertz and Bellah started from a similar position, in terms of scholarly habits, network centrality, and symbolic capital. However, while Geertz became an interdisciplinary star and left his mark in disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, and cultural studies, Bellah's i…
The “Bellah Affair” at Princeton: Scholarly Excellence and Academic Freedom in America in the 1970s
Analytical Sociology and Its Discontents
Mediante una ricostruzione del lavoro dei sociologi parsonsiani di ultima generazione saggio rilegge l’eredità di Parsons come un tentativo di dare una spiegazione della società moderna in termini di teoria normativo-istituzionale. Il saggio spiega come il complesso intreccio teorico di Parsons vada compreso nella sua interezza, ed utilizza alcuni esempi per evidenziare gli stravolgimenti possibili a cui tale teoria si presta
The Grudging Modernizer: A Trip to the Middle East and Cold War Social Science
Analytical Sociology and Its Discontents
Mediante una ricostruzione del lavoro dei sociologi parsonsiani di ultima generazione saggio rilegge l’eredità di Parsons come un tentativo di dare una spiegazione della società moderna in termini di teoria normativo-istituzionale. Il saggio spiega come il complesso intreccio teorico di Parsons vada compreso nella sua interezza, ed utilizza alcuni esempi per evidenziare gli stravolgimenti possibili a cui tale teoria si presta
The “Bellah Affair” at Princeton: Scholarly Excellence and Academic Freedom in America in the 1970s
The trap of intellectual success: Robert N. Bellah, the American civil religion debate, and the sociology of knowledge
Bellah, Robert N (1927–2013)
Communitarians
Italian Sociology,1945–2010: An Intellectual and Institutional Profile
This book provides a comprehensive profile of the development of sociology in Italy from the post-war period to the present day. The first English-language account of the history of Italian sociology
Italian Sociology,1945–2010: An Intellectual and Institutional Profile
This book provides a comprehensive profile of the development of sociology in Italy from the post-war period to the present day. The first English-language account of the history of Italian sociology, it focuses on the process of institutionalization of the discipline within the Italian university system and its changing relationships with extra-academic actors and institutions: political parties, unions, the Catholic Church, political and social…
Found in Translation: Habermas and Anthropotechnics
In his recent work on postsecular societies Jürgen Habermas has stressed the need for a dialogue between religious and nonreligious citizens aimed at strengthening social integration and rejuvenating the moral bases of modern political and juridical institutions. This dialogue should focus on the translation of religious traditions into rational, secular forms. In his more recent work on the social function of rituals, however, he rejected the Du…
B ellah, R obert (1927–2013)
This entry presents a summary of the life and work of the US sociologist, public intellectual, and educator Robert N. Bellah (1927–2013), globally known for his work on Japanese culture and religion, US civil religion, the cultures of individualism, and the evolution of religion
The Anthem Companion to Robert N. Bellah
Raccolta di saggi su Robert N. Bellah da me curata, nell'ambito di una collana su sociologi celebri
Bellah, Robert Neelly (1927–2013)
Robert N. Bellah (1927–2013) was a US sociologist, theologian, educator, and public intellectual. A student of Talcott Parsons at the Harvard Department of Social Relations, Bellah first became well known in the late 1950s as an expert on Japanese culture and religion. In the 1960s he published “Civil Religion in America,” a controversial interpretation of the relationship between religion and politics in the United States which sparked a broad m…
Axial Age
Parsons, Talcott
Acquaviva, Sabino
The return of the repressed. On Robert N. Bellah, Norman O. Brown, and religion in human evolution
As much as Robert Bellah’s final work, Religion in Human Evolution , has been studied and dissected, no critic underlined the importance of psychoanalysis for its main argument and its theoretical framework. The paper shows the influence exerted by a controversial interpreter of Freud, Norman O. Brown, on Bellah’s ideas, intellectual profile, and writing style in the late‐1960s and early 1970s. While in search for a new intellectual voice, Bellah…
Civil Religion
Civil religion” is an expression used to point to a diverse set of phenomena, interpretations, and normative theories regarding the relationship between religion, politics, and civic morals. The birth of the idea can be traced to the French philosopher Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract (1762), but modern usage began in 1967 with Robert N. Bellah's essay “Civil Religion in America.” Since then, the fitness and the depth of the idea for r…
In the field but not of the field: Clifford Geertz, Robert Bellah, and the practices of interdisciplinarity
The intellectual trajectories of social scientists Robert N. Bellah and Clifford Geertz are compared as a case study in the production of successful interdisciplinary work. Geertz and Bellah started from a similar position, in terms of scholarly habits, network centrality, and symbolic capital. However, while Geertz became an interdisciplinary star and left his mark in disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, and cultural studies, Bellah's i…
A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
The brilliant but turbulent life of a public intellectual who transformed the social sciences Robert Bellah (1927–2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century. Trained as a sociologist, he crossed disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of a greater comprehension of religion as both a cultural phenomenon and a way to fathom the depths of the human condition. A Joyfully Serious Man is the definitive biography of this…
Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
The Grudging Modernizer: A Trip to the Middle East and Cold War Social Science
L'origine dei valori / Stratificazioni del "secolare"
La teoria che non c'era. Secolarizzazione, religione e campi intellettuali
This essay proposes a ‘heretical’ reading of the secularization debate from the postwar period to the early 2000s. The proposed thesis depends on two theoretical assump- tions: the inherent pluralism of intellectual fields as spaces of positioning, which makes it difficult to identify trends and hegemonies; and the difference between paradigms, theories and doxa, understood as interpretive frames that differ in systematization and precision. Far …
‘A twenty-four hour job’. Hildred and Clifford Geertz’s first foray into the field and the scholarly persona of the ethnographer
The paper details how, during the ’Modjokuto Project’ of 1952– 1954, Hildred and Clifford Geertz embodied in their decisions and actions the ‘Malinowskian palimpsest’ of the lonely ethnographer, thus creating a series of oppositions between their individualistic understanding of the ethnographer and the needs of teamwork in the field. Apart from the historical record, this reconstruction aims at focusing on several questions in the history of cul…
Writing, Reading, and Interpreting a Rorschach Text: An Attempt at Fourth-Order Observation and Reflexivity
A rejoinder to the papers on A Joyfully Serious Man. The Life of Robert Bellah ( AJSM ) written by Andrew Abbott, Federico Brandmayr, Charles Camic, Andrea Cossu, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Laura Ford, Harlan Stelmach, and Rhys Williams. Conceived as an exercise in self-reflection, the paper addresses five wide areas: specific critiques of AJSM ; an assessment of the relationship between AJSM and the research project whence it came; the connections betw…
When the political tail wags the religious dog, and vice versa. Religion, hegemony, and democracy in contemporary North America
Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · History (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works)