ISBN:
9780415162869
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (241 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Durkheim, Émile ; 1858-1917 ; Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse
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Religion
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Totemism
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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Description based upon print version of record
