On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
Title:
On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
Author:
Allen, N.J.
ISBN:
9780203021903
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Series:
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Contents:
ON DURKHEIM'S ELEMENTARY FORMS OF RELIGIOUS LIFE -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Explanatory note -- Introduction -- 1 Spencer and Gillen in Durkheim: the theoretical construction of ethnography -- 2 Did Lucien Lèvy-Bruhl answer the objections made in Les Formes elementaires? -- 3 Religion and science in The Elementary Forms -- 4 The concept of belief in The Elementary Forms -- 5 Durkheim, Kant, the immortal soul and God -- 6 The cult of images: reading chapter VII, book II, of The Elementary Forms -- 7 Durkheim and sacred identity -- 8 Rescuing Durkheim's 'rites' from the symbolizing anthropologists -- 9 Durkheim's bourgeois theory of sacrifice -- 10 Memory and the sacred: the cult of anniversaries and commemorative rituals in the light of The Elementary Forms -- 11 Effervescence, differentiation and representation in The Elementary Forms -- 12 Effervescence and the origins of human society -- 13 Change, innovation, creation: Durkheim's ambivalence -- 14 Durkheim on the causes and functions of the categories -- 15 Durkheim and a priori truth: conformity as a philosophical problem -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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