{"id":39354,"date":"2013-08-02T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/first_things_on_the_square_blog_david_mills-robert_bellahs_simple_question\/"},"modified":"2013-08-02T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T18:00:53","slug":"first_things_on_the_square_blog_david_mills-robert_bellahs_simple_question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39354","title":{"rendered":"(First Things On the Square Blog) David Mills&#8211;Robert Bellah\u2019s Simple Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Robert] Bellah\u2019s answer was more hopeful than [Philip] Rieff\u2019s, he writes. He thought modernity \u201csomething less monolithic, and the therapeutic ethos less triumphant, precisely because they are not the whole of human experience. All the old stories, cosmologies, and interdictions still rattle about, even inside the most seemingly iron of cages. There is no escaping that mythic dimension\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d particularly religion, which is \u201cculture\u2019s most profoundly developed form of \u201d\u02dcsocially charged narrative\u2019.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2013\/08\/01\/robert-bellahs-simple-questions\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Robert] Bellah\u2019s answer was more hopeful than [Philip] Rieff\u2019s, he writes. He thought modernity \u201csomething less monolithic, and the therapeutic ethos less triumphant, precisely because they are not the whole of human experience. All the old stories, cosmologies, and interdictions<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39354\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}