On Durkheim's Elementary forms of religious life
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On Durkheim's Elementary forms of religious life
(Routledge studies in social and political thought, 10)
Routledge, 1998
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
Note
"Published in conjunction with the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-215) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 Spencer and Gillen in Durkheim: the theoretical construction of ethnography 2 Did Lucien Levy-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
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