he therapeutic values that can be effective today also relate to individuals, to what Bellah calls "expressive individualism," which
holds that each person has a unique core of feeling and intuition that should unfold or be expressed if individuality is to be realized. This core, though unique, is not necessarily alien to other persons or to nature (Bellah, Sullivan, Swidler, and Tipton 334).
De Tocqueville saw individualism an aspect of the American character which was divisive, and Bellah believes that individualism may have grown cancerous and that it might be destroying our social integuments. "Life-style enclaves" are such individualistic and divisive movements, with people gathering around certain social and cultural similarities that exclude others. Bellah finds that today's obsession with lifestyle derives from an individualism rebelling against perceived excesses in collective ac
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