Durkheim in dialogue : a centenary celebration of the elementary forms of religious life

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    • Hausner, Sondra L.

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Durkheim in dialogue : a centenary celebration of the elementary forms of religious life

edited by Sondra L. Hausner

(Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 27)

Berghahn Books, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-256) and index

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One hundred years after the publication of the great sociological treatise, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this new volume shows how aptly Durkheim(1)s theories still resonate with the study of contemporary and historical religious societies. The volume applies the Durkheimian model to multiple cases, probing its resilience, wondering where it might be tweaked, and asking which aspects have best stood the test of time. A dialogue between theory and ethnography, this book shows how Durkheimian sociology has become a mainstay of social thought and theory, pointing to multiple ways in which Durkheim(1)s work on religion remains relevant to our thinking about culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Durkheim in Disciplinary Dialogue Sondra L. Hausner Chapter 1. The Notion of Soul and Science Positive: A Retrieval of Durkheim's Method Karen E. Fields PART I: SOCIAL FORMS Chapter 2. Return to Durkheim: Civil Religion and the Moral Reconstruction of China Zhe Ji Chapter 3. Elementary Forms of War: Performative Aspects of Youth Militia in Sierra Leone Paul Richards Chapter 4. Elementary Forms vs. Psychology in Contemporary Cinema Louise Child PART II: COLLECTIVE MINDS Chapter 5. Durkheim's Sacred-Profane Opposition: What Should We Make of It? N.J. Allen Chapter 6. Durkheim and the Primitive Mind: An Archaeological Retrospective Clive Gamble Chapter 7. Durkheim, Anthropology, and the Question of the Categories in Les Formes Elementaires de la vie Religieuse Susan Stedman Jones PART III: EFFERVESCENCE Chapter 8. Is Individual to Collective as Freud is to Durkheim? Sondra L. Hausner Chapter 9. Collective Representations, Discourses of Power, and Personal Agency: Three Incommensurate Histories of a Collaborator's Rebellion in the Colonial Sudan Gerd Baumann Chapter 10. Actants Amassing (AA): Beyond Collective Effervescence and the Social Adam Yuet Chau FIN Chapter 11. The Creation and Problematic Achievement of Les Formes Elementaires W. Watts Miller

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