Defending the Durkheimian Tradition

Religion, Emotion and Morality

Jonathan S. Fish

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351945769
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book provides an exciting, accessible and wide-ranging guide to the development of classical and contemporary Durkheimian thought. Jonathan Fish offers a re-reading of the writings of Emile Durkheim and Talcott Parsons on religion. He aims to move beyond rationalistic readings which have neglected the key significance of collective human emotion in Durkheim's accounts of the link between society, religion and morality. He goes on to look at the development of these ideas in the work of Parsons and more recent Durkheimian thinkers. Making an important contribution both to studies of Durkheim and the Durkheimian tradition and to the sociology of emotion, the book is distinctive in arguing that religion is an essential backdrop for understanding emotion. In making this claim the author provides a key to re-establishing links between the sociology of religion and the wider discipline of sociology.

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• One Setting the Scene
• Two Emile Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
• Three Emile Durkheim’s Lectures on Moral Education
• Four Emile Durkheim’s Lectures on Professional Ethics and Civic Morals
• Five Emile Durkheim’s The Division of Labour in Society and The Two Laws of Penal Evolution
• Six Talcott Parsons’s The Structure of Social Action
• Seven Talcott Parsons’s Post-War Writings on Religion
• Eight Jean Baudrillard’s ‘Implosive’ Critique of the Durkheimian Tradition
• Nine Stjepan Meštrović’s and Michel Maffesoli’s ‘Implosive’ Defence of the Durkheimian Tradition
• Ten Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index