Reprinted with permission of The Macmillan Company from Tokugawa Religion: The Values of Pre-Industrial Japan by Robert N. Bellah. © by The Free Press, a Corporation, 1957. Robert N. Bellah was born in 1927 at Altus, Oklahoma; was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles, California; received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University; and thereafter studied for two years at the Institute for Islamic Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. From 1957 to 1967 he taught in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University. Since 1967 he has been Ford Professor of Sociology and Comparative Studies and Chairman of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. His publications include Apache Kinship Systems, Tokugawa Religion, Religion and Progress in Modern Asia, and Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World.