783195133     

9783195131                        

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Pickering, W.S.F. ; Watts Miller, W.

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

Online-Ressource (241 p)

Englisch

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 anthropologists9 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

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life

978-0-415-16286-9

978-0-415-16286-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-0-203-02190-3 ( : 236.51 (NL))

GN470.D83 O69 1998eb ; GN470.D83O ; GN470.D83

306.6 ; 306.6     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Durkheim, Émile ; 1858-1917 ; Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse ; Religion ; Totemism ; Electronic books

This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece <I>The Elementary Forms of Religious Life</I> and includes work by the most important international Durkheim scholars