On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life

About this book

This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. It represents the work of the most important international Durkheim scholars from the fields of anthropology, philosophy and sociology. The essays focus on key topics including:
* the method Durkheim adopted in his study
* the role of ritual and belief in society
* the nature of contemporary religion
The contributors also explore cutting-edge debates about the notion of the soul and collective rituals.

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Yes, you can access On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life by N.J. Allen, W.S.F. Pickering, W. Watts Miller, N.J. Allen,W.S.F. Pickering,W. Watts Miller, N. J. Allen, W. S. F. Pickering, W. Watts Miller in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sciences sociales & Sociologie. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781134715015
Edition
1
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Sociologie

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. ON DURKHEIM'S ELEMENTARY FORMS OF RELIGIOUS LIFE
  3. ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. CONTENTS
  7. List of contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Explanatory note
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Spencer and Gillen in Durkheim: the theoretical construction of ethnography
  12. 2 Did Lucien Lévy-Bruhl answer the objections made in Les Formes élémentaires?
  13. 3 Religion and science in The Elementary Forms
  14. 4 The concept of belief in The Elementary Forms
  15. 5 Durkheim, Kant, the immortal soul and God
  16. 6 The cult of images: reading Chapter VII, book II, of The Elementary Forms.
  17. 7 Durkheim and sacred identity
  18. 8 Rescuing Durkheim's ‘rites’ from the symbolizing anthropologists
  19. 9 Durkheim's bourgeois theory of sacrifice
  20. 10 Memory and the sacred: the cult of anniversaries and commemorative rituals in the light of The Elementary Forms
  21. 11 Effervescence, differentiation and representation in The Elementary Forms
  22. 12 Effervescence and the origins of human society
  23. 13 Change, innovation, creation: Durkheim's ambivalence
  24. 14 Durkheim on the causes and functions of the categories
  25. 15 Durkheim and a priori truth: conformity as a philosophical problem
  26. Bibliography
  27. Author index
  28. Subject index