N.J. Allen / W.S.F. Pickering (eds.)

On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Herausgeber: Allen, N. J.; Watts Miller, W.; Pickering, W. S. F.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780415162869
• ISBN-10: 0415162866
• Artikelnr.: 21240213

Autorenporträt

N.J. Allen (Edited by) , W.S.F. Pickering (Edited by) , W. Watts Miller (Edited by)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Spencer and Gillen in Durkheim: the theoretical construction
of ethnography 2 Did Lucien Lèvy-Bruhl answer the objections made in Les
Formes èlèmentaires? 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