Author: Melanie Bellah
Publisher: Celestial Art
Keywords: sisters, abby
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-10-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1587611171
ISBN-13: 9781587611179

Abby and Her Sisters A Memoir By Melanie Bellah When two of author Melanie Bellah’s four teenage daughters died in unrelated incidents, Melanie and her two surviving daughters, Hally and Jennifer, lived through the confusing and tragic period in very separate ways. While Melanie turned to her support system of friends and family, Hally and Jennifer turned to their diaries. Now in their forties and mothers themselves, Hally and Jennifer have shared the diaries they kept as high school students with their mother. In ABBY AND HER SISTERS, Melanie weaves her own recollections together with the ra

Author: Robert N. Bellah
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: traditionalist, world, post, religion, essays, belief
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1991-06-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520073940
ISBN-13: 9780520073944

Beyond Belief collects fifteen celebrated, broadly ranging essays in which Robert Bellah interprets the interplay of religion and society in concrete contexts from Japan to the Middle East to the United States. First published in 1970, Beyond Belief is a classic in the field of sociology of religion.

Author: Robert N. Bellah
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: religion, tokugawa
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1985-09-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0029024609
ISBN-13: 9780029024607

Authors:Charles Y. Glock, Robert N. Bellah,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: consciousness, religious, new
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1976-10-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0520030834
ISBN-13: 9780520030831

Authors:Emile Durkheim, Robert N. Bellah,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: sociology, series, heritage, society, durkheim, morality, emile
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1973-02-15
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0226173364
ISBN-13: 9780226173368

Emile Durkheim is best known in this country as a great sociologist and methodologist. Yet it was Durkheim’s reflections on morality and society that spoke most deeply of his vital concerns. In his informative introduction to this work, Robert N. Bellah describes Durkheim as moralist, philosopher, theologian, and prophet, as well as sociologist, and the selections in this volume are representative of these aspects of Durkheim’s many-faceted scholarship. The first two selections of the volume set the context for the development of Durkheim’s sociology of morality. Section I, "

Authors:Melanie Bell, Melanie Williams,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cinema, british, popular, women
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-10-16
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0415466962
ISBN-13: 9780415466967

British Women’s Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British ‘chick flick’. The woman’s film has sometimes been regarded as a cuckoo-in-the-nest of a national cinema dominated by ideas of restraint and realism, but this collection of essays by leading scholars in the field sets out to demonstrate the central position in British cinema of films for and about women. Discussing an impressive variety of films, including The Tidal Wave, Love Story, Ladies in Lave

Authors:Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sulli
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: american, life, commitment, individualism, heart, habits
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0520254198
ISBN-13: 9780520254190

Habits of the Heart is required reading for anyone who wants to understand how religion contributes to and detracts from America’s common good. An instant classic upon publication in 1985, it was reissued in 1996 with a new introduction describing the book’s continuing relevance for a time when the country’s racial and class divisions are being continually healed and ripped open again by religious people. Habits of the Heart describes the social significance of faiths ranging from "Sheilaism" (practiced by a California nurse named Sheila) to conservative Christianity. It̵