Montreal. Bellah died July 30, 2013, at an Oakland, California, hospital from complications after heart surgery. He was 86 and is survived by his daughters Jennifer Bellah Maguire and Hally Bellah-Guther; a sister, Hallie Reynolds; and five grandchildren. Robert and Melanie Bellah's eldest daughter committed suicide in 1973. Their third daughter died at age 17 in 1976 in an automobile accident. Raised as a Presbyterian, he converted to Episcopalianism in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. Works Robert Bellah is the author, editor, co-author, or co-editor of the following books: Tokugawa Religion: The Values of Pre-Industrial Japan (1957) Religion and Progress in Modern Asia (1965) Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World (1970) Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society (1973) The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial (1975) The New Religious Consciousness (1976) Varieties of Civil Religion (1980) Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (1985) Uncivil Religion: Interreligious Hostility in America (1987) The Good Society (1991) Imagining Japan: The Japanese Tradition and Its Modern Interpretation (2003) The Robert Bellah Reader (2006) Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (2011) The Axial Age and Its Consequences (2012) Awards and honors Bellah was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1967. In 1996, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He received the National Humanities Medal in 2000 from President Bill Clinton, in part for "his efforts to illuminate the importance of community in American society." In 2007, he received the American Academy of Religion Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. In 2008, he received the honorary doctorate of the Max Weber Centre of the University of Erfurt. See also American exceptionalism Lifestyle enclave Political religion Sheilaism References Footnotes Bibliography Further reading External links Robert Bellah's website Bill Moyers interview with Robert Bellah on PBS, September 27, 1988 The Immanent Frame, a SSRC blog with posts by Robert Bellah 1927 births 2013 deaths 20th-century American Episcopalians 20th-century scholars 21st-century American Episcopalians 21st-century scholars Academics from Oklahoma American Anglo-Catholics American sociologists Anglo-Catholic writers Christians from California Christians from Oklahoma Communitarianism Converts to Anglicanism from Presbyterianism Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Former Presbyterians Harvard College alumni National Humanities Medal recipients Sociologists of religion Sociology of culture University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Writers from Los Angeles