- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1981)
- Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1976 to 1981)
- Assistant Professor then Professor of Political Science, McGill University (from 1961 to 1998)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1956 to 1961)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1952 to 1956)
- Undergraduate, McGill University (from 1949 to 1952)
- A Secular Age (Harvard University Press, 2007)
- Modern Social Imaginaries (Duke University Press, 2004)
- Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (Harvard University Press, 2002)
- Philosophical Arguments (Harvard University Press, 1995)
- The Ethics of Authenticity (Harvard University Press, 1992)
- Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (CUP, 1989)
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986)