Summary Of Bellah's Extraordinary Religion

One thing that Bellah mentions is that the things that are intrinsically good in themselves can lead us towards the meaning of life. The deepest level of these intrinsically good things is religion, or as he puts it “the shared fellowship of worship.” Extraordinary religion is defined by Albanese as the “religion that helps people transcend, or move beyond, their everyday culture and concerns.” The religion that Bellah refers to is extraordinary. He claims that by finding and partaking in activities that are good in themselves and not as a means to other things puts us close to the heart of what the meaning of life is. This language that he uses and these activities that he describes are different from the normal circle of life. They go beyond